Airspan Likes ATCA

LONDON -- AdvancedTCA systems supplied by electronics packaging specialist Schroff have helped to reduce the development costs and time-to-market of the latest flagship WiMAX base station from Airspan Networks Inc.

As a leading vendor in the WiMAX arena, Airspan offers a complete family of base stations and end-user premises equipment. Its top-of-the-range product is the powerful HiperMAX base station, which today offers both fixed and mobile WiMAX capabilities including a software-only upgrade for carriers who have already deployed the former solution.

During the early development phase of HiperMAX, Airspan decided that the flexible, modular architecture of a standardised AdvancedTCA (ATCA) chassis would not only provide economies of scale but also ensure that the product reached the market as quickly as possible.

Airspan's Vice President of Product Management, Paul Trubridge, takes up the story: "We knew that the customers we had in mind for HiperMAX would be familiar with ATCA technology and its ability to deliver high-availability, redundant solutions. So it made much more sense to go down that route, rather than starting from scratch and developing a totally proprietary system."

Airspan Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: AIRN)