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SAN DIEGO and BOCA RATON, Fla., Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Proximetry and Airspan are extending their partnership to address the unique scalability and security network management requirements of end-to-end multiservice smart energy networks. The companies announced their new collaboration at DistribuTECH where Proximetry is exhibiting (booth 3155). Proximetry and Airspan share a vision that advanced smart grids are the fusion of two-way power-flow grids with multiservice...

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the WiMAX Forum is proud to announce the publication of WiMAX Forum® System Profile Requirements for Smart Grid Applications. This document codifies work done on WiGRID(TM), an optimized IEEE 802.16 profile for Utility Field Area Networking applications. This set of requirements was assembled by the WiMAX Forum's Smart Grid Working Group, which is composed of technical representatives from major electric power utilities, WiMAX...

CHICAGO, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This week at the 4G World Conference & Exposition, the WiMAX Forum® announced an updated industry roadmap supporting the continued evolution of the WiMAX ecosystem. Recognizing Service Providers' need for flexibility to manage an ever-increasing demand for broadband data, the WiMAX Forum embraces a network evolution path to accommodate harmonization and coexistence across multiple broadband wireless access technologies within a...

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, The 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...

BEAVERTON, Ore., June 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The 4G revolution started with a simple idea: cheap broadband Internet access - anytime and anywhere - for everyone. Over the next decade the pursuit of this idea hastened the inevitable collision of the internet and telephony industries, and pushed forward a new set of technologies that are changing the way the world connects. Now WiMAX technology is used by consumers in 150 countries, and is gaining acceptance in vertical industries such as...

US-based FairPoint Communications has selected Nortel's WiMAX network solution as one of the access platforms to provide high-speed internet in Northern New England with equipment from Airspan Networks. According to Nortel, it will provide FairPoint with an end-to-end fixed WiMAX solution (802.16d) that will provide broadband to homes and small businesses over high-speed wireless connections. Rather than build or upgrade wired connections to homes in remote areas, a small WiMAX terminal,...

Thousands of northern New Englanders will kiss slow dial-up Internet connections goodbye thanks to new WiMAX wireless broadband services from FairPoint Communications powered by Nortel(1) (TSX: NT)(NYSE: NT) with equipment from Airspan Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRN).(2) FairPoint has selected Nortel's WiMAX network solution as one of the access platforms it will use to bring high-speed Internet to communities in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The WiMAX network will provide subscribers, some...

Airspan Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRN), a leading provider of WiMAX-based broadband wireless access networks announced that earlier this week, an official ceremony was held in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, to launch Comstar's nation-wide, WiMAX communications network powered by Airspan equipment. At the ceremony, Comstar's CEO presented Airspan's award-winning MiMAX Q-Series USB devices to Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev and President of Armenia, Serge Sarkisyan. Comstar, the largest...

Airspan Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRN), a leading provider of WiMAX-based broadband wireless access networks, announces that Comarch, a global IT business solutions provider and systems integrator, has selected Airspan's WiMAX solution for a high-speed WiMAX network deployment by Promonte, a subsidiary of Telenor and the largest mobile operator in Montenegro. Comarch and Promonte plan a country-wide WiMAX deployment to provide Montenegrin businesses with high-quality IP services, delivered...

Airspan Networks, a provider of WiMAX-based broadband wireless access networks, has launched a new suite of mobile WiMAX subscriber products. The new MiMAX next-generation devices expand the company's mobile WiMAX portfolio to provide high-capacity internet connectivity, VoIP and Wi-Fi capabilities. According to the company, its new MiMAX products combines advanced signal processing with full MIMO capabilities and high power to ensure maximum performance, capacity and range. The new MiMAX...