Ubiquiti intros wireless broadband for outdoor

SAN JOSE, USA: Ubiquiti Networks, a provider of outdoor broadband wireless technologies, announced a disruptive global outdoor broadband wireless technology, AirMax.

The technology enables real outdoor TCP/IP speeds of 150+ Mbps and consists of leading edge radio hardware design, carrier class basestation MIMO antennas, and a powerful TDMA protocol that enables speed and network scalability over multi-km link distances.

The firm went on to explain that with speed and scalability in mind, the AirMax solution could act as a replacement for previously available outdoor broadband products that operate using 802.11 standard platforms. Airmax has a network that can scale to hundreds of clients per basestation while maintaining low latency, high throughput, and uninterrupted voice quality.

Ben Moore, vice-president of business development at Ubiquiti Networks, said the product was capable of delivering on all of the promises that systems like WiMax have offered in the past, adding that not only would it match these technologies on performance, it would also beat them on price.

Along with this next-generation TDMA protocol implementation, Ubiquiti has introduced a MIMO antenna technology portfolio featuring carrier-class performance with return loss, cross-pol isolation, gain, electrical downtilt, and beam width characteristics typically found in only the highest quality of cellular basestation antennas.

The antennas have been designed and field tested to ensure optimized throughput performance while using both the AirMax protocol and 2x2 MIMO radio AirMax hardware.

Ubiquiti has also introduced several AirMax based radio products that allow for powerful and flexible deployment options. The BaseStation platform called The Rocket consists of a rugged, hi-power, wide operating temperature, 802.11n based 2x2 outdoor device which was designed to instantly mate to any of Ubiquiti's AirMax Antennas.

Ubiquiti Networks specialises in the development, designs and manufacturer of broadband wireless solutions that have in the past included the Bullet and NanoStation.