AireWire and Airspan continue to help providers of all sizes and in all regions to bridge the digital divide.

Airspan believes that all residents and businesses deserve reliable broadband connectivity – regardless of where they live. Rural areas have historically been underserved by broadband due to a lack of infrastructure. Using Airspan WiMAX solutions, even the most remote individuals can be reached and served.

In the United States, reaching rural areas became even easier since the release of the 3.65 GHz frequency band by the FCC. This band is now available for service providers to deploy WiMAX networks and only requires a quick registration with the FCC for a small fee. Airspan currently leads this market segment, offering a quick-to-deploy and pay-as-you-grow solution with equipment that is robust and reliable.

In addition, Airspan currently has the only 700 MHz and 1.5 GHz WiMAX solutions on the market. Due to the inherent characteristics of lower frequency bands, equipment operating in these bands can easily penetrate through obstacles and building walls allowing the signal to travel for further distances. Therefore, these products are ideal for low density, rural and low-cost applications. Airspan products in these frequencies have served customers over 30 miles from the base station!

  Our WiMAX broadband systems are optimized to deliver triple-play applications (high-speed Internet, VoIP telephony and video) to homes, businesses and municipalities. A single system can be structured to not only provide residents and businesses with services, but can also be set up to support the municipality in extending city-wide services, establishing a surveillance network and in coordinating first-responders.

AireWire provides the rest of the solution.  We leverage our other partners to create a cost-effective rural broadband solution that serves governments, residents and businesses of rural communities over the same infrastructure.

System Benefits:

• Pay-as-you-grow system architecture
• Advanced and easy-to-use network management
• Robust, reliable and secure operation
• System redundancy to ensure optimum performance
• Indoor and outdoor end user devices including plug-and-play options
• Largest variety of frequency bands including 700 MHz, 3.65 GHz and 4.9 GHz

Bringing broadband to rural areas improves the quality of life in numerous ways, including the stimulation of commerce and economy, giving better access to healthcare and municipal information and by connecting individuals to millions of Internet users worldwide.