Public Safety and Municipal Solutions

 

Airspan AS.MAX Public Safety & Municipal Wireless Integrated WiMAX and Wi-Fi Solution

 

Airspan offers a complete solution for the Municipal Wireless and Public Safety markets. In a single cost effective package, Airspan uniquely combines the performance and capacity of WiMAX with the flexibility of Wi-Fi. Available in both 4.9GHz versions for Public Safety applications and 5.8GHz for Municipal Wireless applications, both access and back-haul are combined into a single integrated solution. The system uses standards-based 802.11 Wi-Fi for access so that any Wi-Fi enabled device can access the network, if authorized. The backhaul network is provided by 802.16 WiMAX, either 4.9GHz or 5.8GHz depending on the customer requirements. Complete network management and provisioning of all WiMAX devices is done via the Netspan Network Management system.

 

The system provides all the benefits of a Wi-Fi Mesh solution, with the added benefit of higher capacity and quality of service at no extra cost. The WiMAX architecture is designed to scale without degradation in performance. Traditional Wi-Fi Mesh systems cannot support a large number of hops without severe performance loss. The Airspan Municipal Wireless solution provides consistent performance while enabling the operator to offer a range of services at different levels to customers.

 

Key Benefits

 

• Complete solution including access, back-haul and management
• High capacity WiMAX backhaul with integrated Wi-Fi
• Ability to define multiple service levels Improved performance and quality of service over Wi-Fi Mesh
• As cost effective as Wi-Fi Mesh
• Backhaul redundancy - automatic switch over to back-up link
• Proven solution, high reliability, designed for outdoor use
• Simple and easy to deploy

 

Solution Components

 

• MicroMAX Base Stations providing high performance backhaul. Two version available:

   

• MicroMAX-SDR (Software Defined Radio): Software upgradeable to Mobile WiMAX

• MicroMAX-SoC (System on Chip): Cost effective, flexible system based on Airspan's proven WipLL product

   

• ProST Wi-Fi Access Point: Outdoor dual radio (WiMAX, Wi-Fi) access point supporting non-line of sight environments

• EasyST: Self install, indoor WiMAX customer premises equipment (CPE) designed for residences and small enterprises

• Netspan Element Manager: Comprehensive, easy to use sub-network element management solution for all WiMAX component

 

All outdoor solution components are ruggedized and weather-proof, designed to be easily installed on utility poles, lamp posts or rooftops. The base station provides a point to multi-point connection to the access points and CPE's. The ProST Wi-Fi AP provides the access to all Wi-Fi equipped devices. The Netspan network management uses an intuitive web interface enabling the equipment to be commissioned from any remote location.

 

With the housing and mechanics based on the field proven AS.WipLL product, the Airspan Municipal Wireless solution is proven with thousands of nodes installed to date. Specifically in Tokyo, Airspan is currently building one of the largest municipal wireless networks of up to 30,000 nodes.

 

 

The ProST Wi-Fi dual radio Access Point is easy to install, with an integrated WiMAX antenna, external Wi-Fi antenna and all mounting accessories. It supports backhaul redundancy - if there is a failure the ProST Wi-Fi will automatically search for another base station. All standard Wi-Fi security mechanisms are supported including as WPA2 and up to 16 VLANs.

 

 

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