Airvana upgrades EV-DO software

Lynnette Luna — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:46:06 -0400

Airvana announced an upgrade to the company's radio network control technology to give CDMA 1xEV-DO operators more capacity and higher data speeds. Some 70 operators worldwide use Airvana's technology, including Verizon and Sprint. Airvana's upgrade enables CDMA operators to increase the number of sites it can fit in a cluster.

"With Airvana's RNC clustering, operators can deploy multiple RNCs without introducing any RNC borders that can cause service interruptions as subscribers cross them," the company said. "This benefit is especially important for delay-sensitive applications such as push-to-talk and push-to-video."

For more:
- read InformationWeek

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Thomson integrates Airvana femto module in home gateways

Lynnette Luna — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:34:09 -0400

Thomson, the leader in broadband customer premises equipment (CPE), revealed it has integrated a UMTS femtocell module from Airvana in its home gateways. The dominant broadband residential gateway supplier chose Airvana over ip.access. The deal is a coup for Airvana as integrated devices are seen as the most cost-effective way for operators to deploy femtocells to the mass market even though they will first roll out standalone femtocells to jump start the market.

Thomson said it chose Airvana over ip.access because of Thomson's own co-marketing and co-development partnership with Nokia Siemens. "We were looking for a technology supplier that would offer support for that ecosystem. Given ip.access wasn't willing to support that at that time, we went looking for a technology supplier that would support that ecosystem," Stan Claes, director of the IPS femtocell group at Thomson, told Unstrung.

For more:
- check out Unstrung

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