NextWave Wireless And WiChorus Partner to Deliver Operators Complete WiMAX Infrastructure Solutions

(Business News & Technology News, 3 Apr 2008)

NextWave Wireless Inc. and WiChorus have announced a joint agreement to provide an end-to-end WiMAX infrastructure solution for operators that integrates WiChorus' Intelligent ASN Gateway and Home Agent solutions with NextWave's WiMAX base station products. WiChorus will also add support for NextWave's MXtv technology.

As part of the joint agreement NextWave will bundle their WiMAX base stations with WiChorus ASN Gateways and Home Agents enabling operators to purchase a complete end-to-end WiMAX solution. Benefits for operators include the advanced accounting and charging, content-based service differentiation, peer-to-peer traffic management and network optimization capabilities of the WiChorus product line. These capabilities combined with NextWave's Macro, Micro and Pico network infrastructure products which feature intercell interference mitigation and broadcast TV capabilities provide wireless operators with the performance, scalability, and flexibility they require while significantly reducing upfront network deployment and ongoing operational costs. In addition, the combined turnkey solution features new revenue-generating service offerings such as MXtv, superior coverage for a given investment level, and streamlined operational costs enabling operators to deploy more scalable and profitable WiMAX networks.

NextWave's WiMAX base stations feature MXtv, a breakthrough mobile multicast and broadcast technology that enables WiMAX operators to deliver a broad range of rich and personalized multimedia services including mobile TV, interactive media services, and digital audio without having to invest in new spectrum or additional radio access network equipment. Utilizing cutting-edge macro-diversity technology that significantly improves broadcast performance over WiMAX channel, MXtv technology, which is completely compatible with the current 802.16e standard, is designed to slash the cost of offering high-quality, mobile broadcast services to subscribers. In addition, MXtv provides WiMAX operators a unique opportunity to generate significant incremental revenue by delivering relevant and highly-targeted interactive advertising to customers while maintaining control over the nature and extent of content delivered over their network.

NextWave's WiMAX based station products support a highly innovative Intercell Interference Management (IIM) technology, which provides superior radio performance for the delivery of higher data speeds or improved coverage. With this new advancement for WiMAX technology offered as a standard feature of NextWave's based station products, IIM greatly reduces the initial spectrum requirements by significantly increasing capacity of a WiMAX network deployed based on a single frequency reuse plan as opposed to a multi-frequency reuse plan typically used in WiMAX network deployments. In addition, NextWave's WiMAX based station products feature a tiered architecture which enables optimized radio coverage in a range of environments by customizing cell sizes, powers and densities that use a combination of macro, micro and pico cells providing for maximum scalability.

This scalability of NextWave's base stations is matched by the flexibility of WiChorus' ASN Gateways, which can scale from small appliances to high capacity carrier grade systems. With its unique distributed architecture, WiChorus delivers extensive packet processing intelligence on a per subscriber, per flow basis across the entire product range. This ensures a wealth of advanced features with no performance degradation for fixed, nomadic and fully mobile services. Both the NextWave and WiChorus products feature carrier-class redundancy with hot-standby and hitless fail-over.

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