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Wireless Products and Solutions

Wireless usage and the adoption of new wireless services continue to explode. Whether it is due to the launch of new devices, the addition of new subscribers, the availability of new wireless-data applications, or simply the general adoption of existing services, the wireless operators are facing key challenges today with respect to keeping their transport costs inline while delivering the bandwidth and quality that their users expect. The wireless carriers are in need of flexible, future-proof solutions that enable them to meet both their tactical requirements around capacity increases and cost-savings as well as their long-term goals around network architectures to take advantage of Ethernet and IP-based solutions.

Carrier Access focuses on software and hardware solutions that span the wireless backhaul network from the cell-site to the network edge, reducing transport costs, helping the operators understand this critical part of the network and manage it more efficiently, and doing so with a future-proof solution designed to provide operators with flexibility to change their networks in the future. For instance, Carrier Access has solutions that are designed to deliver optimization rates at 40-65% and above for existing TDMA, GSM, and UMTS networks, without affecting voice quality and in some cases even improving the voice quality. At the same time, this exact same solution deployment provides a path through software upgrades for pseudo-wire support and the enablement of all-IP networks.

The heart of the Carrier Access solution is the FLEXengine™, a software-upgradeable architecture that is deployed in Carrier Access hardware and is OEM-able by partners for deployment in their hardware. As we move forward, Carrier Access continues on improvements in the FLEXengine™ as well as feature enhancements to the various solutions it provides from cell-site to network edge. As the wireless operators continue to increase capacity, and as their end-customers continue to demand more bandwidth and bandwidth-intensive devices and applications, the need at the network operators dramatically increases for Carrier Access solutions that deliver bandwidth improvements and associated cost savings.


Wireless Access Solutions