Residential broadband is one of the fastest growing sectors of the global telecommunications industry. Many parts of the world still do not have access to broadband services because the local wireline infrastructure cannot support broadband speeds. Though several proprietary fixed broadband wireless solutions have been built to address this market, these technologies require an operator to rely on a single vendor and deploy the network with expensive customer premise equipment. As a consequence, several parts of the undeveloped world and many developing countries lack basic broadband services.

CDMA2000 EV-DO is the only mainstream 3G standard that allows an operator to build a cost-effective broadband wireless network. EV-DO enables service providers to introduce residential broadband connectivity in areas where the population cannot cost justify wireline services.  With proper network design and planning, operators can use EV-DO to launch a service that offers operating profits in the second year of operation and a payback period of less than five years—attractive financial returns by any measure.

Airvana’s innovative IP-RAN network architecture optimizes the performance of the network, allows the network to scale seamlessly and reduces operating costs by offering the service providers the flexibility to choose the lowest cost backhaul transport options. With IP-RAN, an operator can use any transport network that is capable of carrying IP traffic between the radio nodes and the radio network controller.