Air Broadband Communications to Use the Fujitsu WiMAX SoC for Its New WiMAX Access Control Routers and Base Stations.

Air Broadband Communications to Use the Fujitsu WiMAX SoC for Its New WiMAX Access Control Routers and Base Stations.

Fujitsu Microelectronics America, Inc. and Air Broadband Communications, Inc., announced that Air Broadband has selected the Fujitsu WiMAX System-on-Chip (SoC) for its new wireless IP switch-router implementations for WiMAX Access Control Routers (ACR) and base stations.

The Fujitsu WiMAX SoC, the MB87M3400, was introduced in April 2005 by Fujitsu Microelectronics America, a leading provider of robust wireline and wireless solutions that boost next-generation communications networks. The Fujitsu WiMAX SoC has been designed into a wide range of WiMAX base-station and subscriber-station products in markets around the world.

Air Broadband introduced its PiMAX™ Access Control Router for the WiMAX market at Interop Las Vegas in May 2005. The wireless IP switch-routers, which are based on IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN and IEEE 802.16 WiMAX, provide fast layer 2 and layer 3 roaming and scalability in multi-cell networks, enabling real-time applications and management capabilities. The implementations for PiMAX™ ACR and base station provide the IP mobility, multi-vendor base-stations compatibility, wide scalability and per-flow QoS (MCSQ™) improvements needed for WiMAX deployment.