Macro Mobile Broadband
Music and video, full-HTML browsing, VoIP and much more. It's time to enable these services by making the right 3G investments.
The mobile operator environment around the world has become increasingly competitive, now supporting more than 3 billion subscribers. But voice revenues per user continue to fall, so operators are now seeing rapid growth in data ARPU from a variety of data services. With texting, messaging, ringtones and gaming driving the majority of initial demand, operators are now capitalizing on their investments in mobile broadband 3G networks to deliver rich multimedia services like music, video, push email, full HTML web surfing, push-to-talk, VoIP, and IP-TV.
The EV-DO Solution
EV-DO is a leading 3G mobile broadband technology. EV-DO Rev A is now widely deployed and offers 3.1 Mbps peak downlink data rates and 1.8 Mbps on the uplink for users of smart phones and portable computers with wireless data cards. Successive generations of EV-DO technology will provide plenty of headroom for networks to offer higher speed services and spectrum efficiency without disrupting their subscribers or their infrastructure.
Commercial networks based on EV-DO were first launched in 2002, and as of early 2008, there are more than 120 commercial networks around the world providing service to nearly 100 Million subscribers.
Airvana's IP-RAN Advantage
Airvana's innovative IP Radio Access Network (IP-RAN) architecture, used in our flagship IP-RN Series optimizes the performance of the network, allows the network to scale seamlessly and reduces operating costs by offering operators the flexibility to choose the lowest cost backhaul transport options. An IP-RAN architecture creates an effective foundation for delivering real-time services like Voice over IP (VoIP) and push-to-talk. With an IP-RAN architecture, Quality of Service (QoS), an essential requirement for VoIP, is applied uniformly across the core network and the radio access network. Handoffs are faster and introduce no additional latency. Better QoS and lower latency translate into higher VoIP capacity.
