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ARM, Iospan to provide broadband wireless access product

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HYDERABAD: Hyderabad based ARM Ltd. has joined hands with US based Iospan to

introduce its broadband wireless access product for the Indian sub-continent.

The product christened - AirBurst system is a point-to-multipoint (P2MP),

broadband wireless access (BWA) network that provides a reference solution for

network operators wishing to deliver Internet access and voice services to

residential and business customers.

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ARM will develop and implement the wireless solutions for the carriers in the

Indian sub-continent. "We are going to manufacture the consumer premises

equipment (CPE) for the Indian market, keeping in mind the price factor. We are

going to take the technology from Iospan and develop the required and affordable

technology for the Indian customer. We are already talking to the top-most

carriers in the country for the deployment of this product and the trials in

Hyderabad will start from April 2002," said, ARM Ltd. managing director,

Sumanth Paturu.

The system is based upon Multiple input Multiple Output (MIMO) technology and

the system supports a variety of network architectures. AirBurst is designed to

deliver solutions to address the fundamental challenges that have traditionally

been barriers to wide deployment of BWA systems. "Specifically this system

is designed from the ground-up to solve non-line-of-sight (non-LOS) and

scalability issues typically associated with the last mile wireless broadband

systems," said Iospan managing director, A J Paulraj.

In a successful BWA service offering, customer demand will drive capacity

requirements and demands for scalability. As a network operator's customer base

grows, the Airburst solutions will scale easily with the addition of new cell

sites.

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