Aricent Wins Deals

BARCELONA -- Barcelona, 27 February 2012 —Aricent Group, a global innovation and technology services company, today announced that Airspan Networks Inc., a leading provider of broadband wireless access networks, has chosen Aricent’s EPCLite software framework for its AirCore LTE offering.

Aricent’s innovative LTE EPCLite software framework is an integrated offering for telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs) to develop ‘network-in-a-box’ solutions for both large and small LTE networks. EPCLite comprises of eSAE gateway (SGW and PGW), MME, HSS, and PCRF components, with the flexibility to run these components in any combination on a single or a distributed hardware platform.

The software components are 3GPP Rel-10 compliant and have additional segment-specific features to help the TEMs quickly create solutions for specialized markets like rural networks, public safety, and other small scale deployments.

The Airspan AirCore solution for LTE Enhanced Packet Core, together with the company’s innovative Air4G LTE base station solution, integrates both LTE and WiMAX functionality and addresses high capacity and long range deployment requirements.

”We chose Aricent EPCLite for its innovative features, which complement Airspan’s scalable eNodeB solution. The combined solution enables an operator to deploy an affordable LTE network, and expand the network as its user base grows, circumventing higher up-front costs. The EPCLite’s architectural flexibility, ease of adding differentiating features and Aricent’s strong services heritage played a key role in choosing this framework,” said Uzi Shalev, chief operating officer of Airspan.“We are very excited to have Airspan as a customer for Aricent’s LTE EPCLite,” said Rakesh Vij, vice president, business development at the Aricent Group. “This continues to showcase our strength in providing key LTE software components for leading equipment vendors. Our innovation services for LTE comprising of software frameworks and product engineering services continue to help TEMs introduce innovative solutions quickly and efficiently.”

In a separate release:

BARCELONA -- The Aricent Group, a leading global innovation and technology services company, announced it has licensed its industry-leading eNodeB software frameworks to Public Wireless, a leading wireless solutions provider. Public Wireless has integrated Aricent’s LTE eNodeB software with its small cell platform to develop highly flexible and scalable small cell solutions to provide optimal capacity, coverage, and speed.

According to the GSMA, LTE is the fastest growing communication technology in history, and its deployment requires heterogeneous network architecture comprised of base stations of varying form factors. Thus, small cells will play a very important role in the proliferation of LTE. The joint solution addresses a deep market need for scalable small cell solutions that can help mitigate development risks.

Aricent Inc.