Alvarion to boost WiMAX performance with ArrayComm technology

Stuart Corner
Monday, 30 July 2007 05:51

Business IT - Technology

Alvarion, the company reportedly chosen to supply WiMAX gear for Opel's planned rollout, is to incorporate technology from iBurst developer ArrayComm into its equipment to boost its performance.

Alvarion said it would incorporate ArrayComm's multi-antenna signal processing software (A-MAS) into its 4Motion radio access network solutions enabling it to offer two to four times more coverage and spectral efficiency than the WiMAX Forum's baseline profiles, through a unique combination of beamforming, MIMO and adaptive interference cancellation, while maintaining full profile and standards compliance.

However 4Motion is Alvarion's mobile WiMAX (IEEE802.16e) product, not the 802.16d technology that Opel reportedly intends to use.

ArrayComm claims to be the leader in multi-antenna signal processing (MAS) software for wireless systems. The software is deployed into a wide range of different wireless technologies, apart from ArrayComm's own iBurst technology. According to ArrayComm, A-MAS implementations include W-CDMA, HSDPA, WiMAX, PHS, GSM, and HC-SDMA networks, some 300,000 base stations in total.