HONG KONG, Nov. 15, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Airvana, Inc. (www.airvananet.com), a market leader in CDMA2000 1xEV-DO radio access network infrastructure, today announced it will demonstrate 1xEV-DO Revision A and advanced 1xEV-DO multimedia services such as Voice over IP (VoIP) and Multicasting at the 2005 3G World Congress and Exhibition. With the goal of enabling mobile broadband everywhere, these features will accelerate the delivery of innovative 3G services to consumers and mobile professionals. Airvana technology now powers 16 of the world's most dynamic commercial EV-DO networks.
The 3G World Congress and Exhibition takes place November 14-18, 2005, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Airvana's CEO, Randy Battat, will speak on the advantages of VoIP to operators, and CTO Vedat Eyuboglu will speak about the role of EV-DO broadcast and multicast in enabling mobile television. Airvana is located at booth #1021.
With over 18 million subscribers, 1xEV-DO is the world's leading 3G wireless technology. The advanced features on showcase will extend 1xEV-DO's lead over competing 3G technologies. By delivering these features to service providers, Airvana dramatically reduces the cost of delivering compelling mobile multimedia services to handsets and enables rapid adoption of 3G wireless technology.
"1xEV-DO is generating billions of dollars of additional revenue for CDMA operators worldwide and gives CDMA operators a competitive edge against other operators", said Randy Battat, CEO of Airvana, "1xEV-DO Revision A extends this lead by being the first 3G technology to offer carrier-grade, high-capacity VoIP." Airvana's 2005 3G World Congress and Exhibition demonstrations will include:
-- CDMA2000 1xEV-DO Revision-A - Rev-A provides the underlying
technology to support new applications such as Voice over IP
(VoIP), push-to-talk, push-to-multimedia, and video telephony.
One of the key benefits of Rev-A is the 3-4x increase in uplink
speeds. Since UMTS will not support a faster uplink until HSUPA
is available, Rev-A will give CDMA operators a 2+ year advantage
over UMTS operators. In addition, Rev-A is fully backward
compatible with EV-DO Revision 0. With EV-DO Rev-A, service
providers can seamlessly upgrade their networks to expand
service offerings to deliver higher speed connections to their
customer base.
-- Voice over IP (VoIP) - VoIP over 1xEV-DO will allow service
providers to reduce their costs by converging their voice and
data networks into one All-IP network, and to enhance their
revenues by enabling the fast introduction of new services such
as feature-rich voice, fixed-mobile convergence and
high-performance push-to-talk.
-- Broadcast and Multicast Service - Airvana will demonstrate how
operators can efficiently deliver rich multimedia content such
as movie clips, news and sporting events simultaneously to a
large number of mobile devices. Subscribers can either view live
content or the content can be cached on the mobile device for
later viewing.
In addition to the live demonstrations, on Thursday, November 17th, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Airvana's CEO, Randy Battat, will be a panelist on the plenary keynote session on network infrastructure, wireless devices and semiconductor initiatives; he will speak about the competitive advantages VoIP gives CDMA operators. Airvana's CTO, Vedat Eyuboglu, will be a panelist on Thursday's Track 4 program (2:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.) on the role of broadcast and multicast in mobile TV and video streaming services.
Service providers are deploying CDMA2000 1xEV-DO worldwide as a high-speed mobile data service for cell phones, PDAs and laptops. It is flexible enough to support mobile multimedia applications or act as a low-cost, fixed wireless broadband data service. 1xEV-DO can be deployed very inexpensively, either by upgrading an existing base station with a channel card or by overlaying the existing network with low cost CDMA2000 1xEV-DO base stations.
About Airvana
Airvana is an innovator and leader in broadband CDMA network infrastructure systems based on third-generation (3G) CDMA2000 1xEV-DO wireless packet data technology. Airvana is the first company to combine advanced EV-DO technology with an innovative IP-RAN architecture to bring broadband speeds and carrier class performance and reliability to the radio access network. Today, networks around the world based on Airvana's technology are supporting millions of consumer and business subscribers and are delivering a wide range of mobile broadband information, communication and entertainment services. Airvana is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA USA. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.airvananet.com