Alvarion® Unveils SentieM™ Technologies, Bringing Unmatched Innovation to Mobile WiMAX™ Network
Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), the world’s leading provider of WiMAX™ and wireless broadband solutions, today unveiled SentieM™ technologies, which surpass the Mobile WiMAX™ basic technologies and provide better coverage, capacity and throughput per user to operators using Alvarion’s end-to-end Mobile WiMAX 4Motion® solution. SentieM includes Advanced Antenna and Radio Resource technologies in addition to Distributed Network capabilities, improving the economics for operators and the quality of service for subscribers.
The company’s SentieM technologies, designed to comply with the IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard and WiMAX Forum® Mobile WiMAX specifications, optimize the benefits of technologies such as MIMO, Beamforming and SDMA, as well as introduce new capabilities to enhance the overall solution value for operators.
“SentieM technologies are the result of years of extensive and highly advanced technological development, and combine innovation and responsiveness to the market from both operator and subscriber’s point of view,” said Tzvika Friedman, President and CEO of Alvarion. “SentieM technologies enable operators to fully utilize mobile networks and make the most of Mobile WiMAX in order to truly deliver on its promise to the market.”
SentieM technologies include:
* On-demand Collaborative MIMO and Beamforming – enhances coverage and boosts capacities by intelligently utilizing air interface and radio resources.
* Subscriber independent SDMA technology directing the radio interface at users that create the most efficient network – extends cell capacity to any device on the network.
* Self-learning algorithm for rate adaptation that modifies itself according to variations in the channel’s condition – provides better performance and maximizes capacity.
* Distributed radio architecture – enables all base stations to coordinate and negotiate with each other, resulting in less delay, less latency and fast response time.
* Hierarchical ASN-GW network architecture – provides network survivability with localized mobility, a key factor when designing and deploying a WiMAX network.
* High-quality voice service by optimizing scheduling – allows a higher capacity of users on the network, adaptively managing the air interface and providing superior voice services which are near wire-line in quality.
“Mobile networks should incorporate a robust and self-sustaining intelligence to cope with the complexities of varying wireless media and network conditions,” explained Dr. Ze’ev Roth, CTO of Alvarion. “Therefore, we believe that a solution that goes beyond standard compliance, and intelligently encompasses the capabilities of Mobile WiMAX, adds value in many aspects. Coverage, capacity and quality of service are important requirements for a Mobile WiMAX network. SentieM is aimed at enabling a superior network, which offers best-in-class performance for Mobile WiMAX solutions.”
About Alvarion
With more than 3 million units deployed in over 150 countries, Alvarion (http://www.alvarion.com) is the world’s leading provider of innovative wireless broadband network solutions enabling Personal Broadband to improve lifestyles and productivity with portable and mobile data, VoIP, video and other services.
Alvarion is leading the market to Open WiMAX architecture with the most extensive deployments and proven product portfolio in the industry covering the full range of frequency bands with both fixed and mobile solutions. Alvarion’s products enable the delivery of personal mobile broadband, business and residential broadband access, corporate VPNs, toll quality telephony, mobile base station feeding, hotspot coverage extension, community interconnection, public safety communications, and mobile voice and data.
As a wireless broadband pioneer, Alvarion has been driving and delivering innovations for over 10 years from core technology developments to creating and promoting industry standards. Leveraging its key roles in the IEEE and HiperMAN standards committees and experience in deploying OFDM-based systems, the Company’s prominent work in the WiMAX Forum is focused on increasing the widespread adoption of standards-based products in the wireless broadband market and leading the entire industry to Open WiMAX solutions.