Over the past few months, the primary voice services of BreezeMAX have been tested with carriers in Africa and South America, and approved as interoperable with various vendors' Class 5 switches. As a result of these trials, two operators in Africa are today leveraging their TDM switches by deploying this BreezeMAX voice and data solution. In addition, operators in Latin America are evaluating the solution for deployment in urban areas to cover unserved areas.
"Alternative and incumbent carriers can now use WiMAX to open their networks to major technology evolution in terms of applications," said Rudy Leser, Alvarion's corporate vice president of strategy and marketing. "By adopting WiMAX as their network strategy, carriers will enjoy 4G applications as well as significant capital and operating costs savings. We are seeing strong demand for this type of open infrastructure solution where new services can be made available while moving to services such as voice over IP."
Primary voice over WiMAX capability is of particular interest to innovative challengers looking to provide voice services, along with broadband, to areas with little or no existing telecom infrastructure. Alvarion voice and broadband data WiMAX networks can be built quickly and without heavy investments in a full scale VoIP network as it can be deployed using the existing TDM infrastructure capacity of V5.2 legacy switches.
