Airspan's WiMAX Forum Certified AS.MAX platform was deployed using an experimental license in the 3.5GHz band from a main Kiva Networks location to multiple areas around the downtown Cherry Creek Business District in Denver to test fixed broadband data and Voice over IP service over WIMAX, utilizing PRIMUS Telecommunications, Inc.'s Premium Enterprise hosted VoIP service, as well as portable/nomadic service utilizing Airspan's self-installable EasyST subscriber radio. "We are very satisfied with Airspan's WIMAX access products and very impressed by the performance of the EasyST.

Airspan is the only company with a WiMAX customer premises radio that can be installed by our subscribers, thereby allowing nomadic broadband service, which is very important to an operator's business model. We see WiMAX as an important extension of our existing Wi-Fi network. It will give consumers, businesses and public safety entities the ability to conduct carrier-class voice calls as well as utilize broadband IP service in a cost-effective manner," stated Bob Letson, Technology Director for Kiva Networks.

"Primus Telecommunications is pleased to work with Kiva and Airspan to test our Voice over IP services over one of the first WiMAX-certified test networks in the US. We believe WiMAX service will allow new operator entrants the ability to offer carrier class voice services. These high-quality networks should effectively compete with existing copper networks providing a low cost, feature rich converged service alternative for business and government entities," stated Joe DiMaio, Vice President Enterprise Solutions for PRIMUS Telecommunications.

"We are experiencing strong growth in our WiMAX business, particularly in international markets where WiMAX frequencies have been made available and where our WiMAX Forum Certified platform can therefore be deployed commercially. Testing our products in the U.S. allows our customers to gain confidence in the technology and in their ability to offer carrier-class services over a WIMAX network. Successful trials like this one with Kiva and Primus demonstrate that Airspan is well positioned to launch its WiMAX products in the US this year, and give us valuable experience and momentum in the market," said Eric Stonestrom, President and Chief Executive Officer of Airspan Networks.

Source: MarketWire