MetroNetIQ Vendor Directory: (Pre)WiMax Vendors

MetroNet Equipment Providers and Service Providers
Installing and Leveraging a MetroNet

Last Mile Connectivity equipment providers
Point-to-point and point-to-multipoint (WiMax) wireless network gear

Editor's Note: Special thanks to WiMax.com for most of this content.

Point-to-point and point-to-multipoint (WiMax) wireless network gear

Under construction - watch this space for new entries

Adaptix - Founded in 2004 to meet the exploding demand for converged voice, video and data applications and services, ADAPTIX offers service providers, municipalities and other organizations a scalable, cost-effective broadband wireless platform.

Advantech AMT - Advantech is a world leading designer and manufacturer of Microwave Communication products for Satellite Ground Stations (L-Band to Ka-Band) and for Wireless Base Stations (PCS, MMDS, 3.5GHz and LMDS).

Airspan Networks - Airspan Networks is a worldwide leader in Broadband wireless communications, having delivered systems with more than 1 million lines to over 300 customers in over 95 countries. Today Airspans products are being used to deliver carrier-class voice, high-speed data and Voice over IP (VoIP) services.

Airspan is proud to introduce AS.MAX, its family of WiMAX base stations, backhaul solutions and customer premises equipment. Airspan¹s EasyST is the world¹s first commercially-available indoor, self-installable WiMAX CPE. The introduction of the AS.MAX portfolio, together with the acquisition of its VoiceMAX platform, will make Airspan the leader in tightly-integrated Voice over WiMAX solutions.

Aeras Networks www.aerasnetworks.com
AirBand www.airband.com

Alvarion www.alvarion-usa.com Alvarion - With more than 2 million units deployed in 130 countries, Alvarion is the worldwide leader in wireless broadband, providing systems to carriers, ISPs and private network operators, and also in extending coverage of GSM and CDMA wireless networks to developing countries and other hard to serve areas.

Aperto Networks www.apertonetworks.com Aperto Networks - Aperto Networks is a leading provider of WiMAX-class multiservice broadband wireless access systems for global markets. It was founded to provide a breakthrough solution to one of today's critical network bottlenecks - limited availability of last mile broadband access to millions of prospective users worldwide.


Aztech Systems Ltd - Incorporated in 1986, Aztech Systems Ltd is a multi-national company providing OEM/ODM design and manufacturing services as well as contract manufacturing service. Headquarters in Singapore and with over 1,800 employees worldwide, Aztech operates two electronic manufacturing plants and one plastic injection and moulding plant in Dong Guan, China. Aztech R&D centres are located in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Dong Guan, China.

BelAir Networks - BelAir Networks currently markets three wireless networking products; the single radio BelAir50c wireless mesh cluster node, the dual-radio BelAir100 wireless multi-service node and the four-radio BelAir200 wireless multi-service switch router.

Cambridge Broadband - Cambridge Broadband started in January 2000 as a group of experienced individuals with a collective single aim: to deliver the world's leading broadband fixed wireless access system. As a team, Cambridge Broadband brings together the best engineers, academics, and commercial management in the fixed wireless access business, the same team that developed and successfully deployed 50,000 units of the market-leading fixed wireless access system in 1999.

Ceragon - Ceragon Networks Ltd., a pacesetter in broadband wireless networking systems, enables rapid and cost-effective deployment of high-capacity network connectivity for mobile cellular infrastructure, fixed networks and private networks.

Chantry - Chantry Networks specializes in WLAN technology that offers solutions for the wireless convergence of voice and data transmission. In particular, in the fields of seamless transfer between access points and voice quality, Chantry Networks has the very latest in state-of-the-art products.

Colubris Networks - Colubris Networks is a global provider of multiservice Wireless LAN (WLAN) systems for enterprises and service providers, delivering highly scalable, flexible solutions for wireless voice, data and video networking. Colubris solutions make it easy and affordable for organizations to give their employees, guests, customers, suppliers, and partners mobile access to network services.

DragonWave Inc. - DragonWave Inc. is a leading innovator in high capacity broadband wireless networking systems for network operations and service providers. Since its founding in 2000, the company has achieved customer recognition for quality, innovation, and technical advances in delivering wireless point-to-point networks for the transport of data, voice and video communication systems, including comprehensive service and support.

Elcoteq - Elcoteq Network Corporation is a global electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company with design capabilities. We are focused on communications technology customers and products.

Firetide - Firetide is a privately held wireless mesh technology company that develops networking equipment to deploy high performance, scalable wireless mesh networks quickly, easily and affordably.

Infinet Wireless Limited - InfiNet Wireless has been a worldwide leader in broadband wireless access since 1993. Our products have been deployed by more than 300 customers in over 30 countries. The company was created to provide ISP and telco carriers with breakthrough wireless solutions for last mile broadband access to millions of prospective users in the Emerging Markets of Russia, China, and India. Today, InfiNet Wireless is a leading provider of pre-WiMAX multiservice broadband wireless access systems for hundreds of global markets.

KenCast, Inc. - KenCast makes software solutions for reliable datacasting via satellite and other networks. KenCast's flagship product, the Fazzt Digital Delivery System, enables multimedia content providers and publishers to deliver large digital files reliably to many remote sites at high speeds.

LOGUS Broadband Wireless Solutions - Founded in 2004, LOGUS Broadband Wireless Solutions Inc. is engaged in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing cost effective WiMAX products & solutions for the Cable, Telco and WISPs worldwide.

Lok Technology, Inc. - Privately held Lok Technology, Inc. is an innovator in secure, integrated network infrastructure appliances. The AIRlok Appliance by LokTek is a single integrated, turnkey network provisioning appliance for cost-effective and scalable wireless and wireline network deployments.

M/A-COM, Inc. - M/A-COM, Inc., a business unit of Tyco Electronics, is an established industry leader in the design, development and manufacture of radio frequency (RF), microwave and millimeter wave semiconductors, components and technologies for the wireless telecommunications, automotive, aerospace and military industries.

MemoryLink - MemoryLink is The Personal Bandwidth Company(tm), empowering people with communication technology and products to enhance the quality of their lives. Since 1998, MemoryLink has been working toward the goal of connecting people - from where they are to where they want to be - to ensure that their Personal Bandwidth(tm) requirements are satisfied as they discover the unbounded possibilities that wireless broadband offers for visual and audio communications.

Motorola - Canopy

Navini www.navini.com Navini - With the largest commercial deployment in the world, over 30 commercial networks in 6 continents and strategic partnerships with industry leaders, Navini Networks is a leader in providing personal, plug-n-play broadband wireless access solutions. Navini delivers on the vision of mobile WiMAX today with patented phased array smart antennas delivering a price/performance combination that is superior to other broadband offerings in the marketplace.

NEC America, Inc. - NEC America, Inc., headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a leading provider of innovative communications products, solutions and services. NEC America serves all communications industries from carriers, to enterprise, to wireless and is an affiliate of NEC Corporation, a Global Fortune 500. company and one of the leading patent producing enterprises in the world.

Nera Networks AS - Nera is a world-leading global supplier of fixed wireless and satellite communication equipment and systems. Nera designs, develops, manufactures and markets point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radio link equipment, satellite terminals and gateways for mobile and fixed satellite communications.

NextNet Wireless - NextNet is the industry's most widely deployed provider of NLOS plug-and-play broadband wireless access systems. The company was founded in 1998 and acquired by wireless pioneer Craig McCaw in early 2004. The Expedience® system is deployed today over licensed frequencies on five continents. It is the service providers' choice for National deployment in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Brazil.

Orthogon Systems - The Orthogon Systems Family of Wireless Ethernet Bridges offers simple, cost-effective solutions to the challenge of establishing reliable, secure, point-to-point network connections. Whether operating in a Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS), long range Line-of-Sight (LoS), adverse or marginally adverse environment, our wireless systems are leading the industry with the successful deployment of broadband connectivity in areas where others cannot connect.

P-Com - P-Com, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets highly secure and reliable wireless mesh routers to the licensed exempt telecommunications market worldwide. The company's wireless mesh routers are designed to combine high performance, multiple operating frequencies and hardware AES encryption to provide networking professionals the most flexible, scalable and robust mesh routers for integrated network requirements of Internet access and private networks including security and surveillance requirements.

Powerwave - Powerwave Technologies, Inc., is a global supplier of end-to-end wireless solutions for wireless communications networks. Powerwave designs, manufactures and markets antennas, boosters, combiners, filters, repeaters, multi-carrier RF power amplifiers and tower-mounted amplifiers and advanced coverage solutions, all for use in cellular, PCS and 3G networks throughout the world.

Pronto Networks - Pronto Networks, based in Pleasanton, Calif., provides carrier-class Operations Support Systems (OSS) that enable network operators to deploy and manage large public hot spot and hot zone networks. The company's software handles provisioning, configuration, authentication, access control, security, pre-paid and post-paid billing, and roaming settlement for large public WLAN networks, in addition to remotely managing and updating multi-vendor hardware and Wi-Fi switches.

Proxim - Terabeam Wireless is the business name of YDI Wireless, Inc. Terabeam Wireless is a world leader in providing extended range, license-free wireless data equipment and is a leading designer of turnkey long distance wireless systems ranging from 9600 bps to 1.42 Gbps for applications such as wireless Internet, wireless video, wireless LANs, wireless WANs, wireless MANs, and wireless virtual private networks.

Radionet - Radionet is a wireless technology company specializing in the development, design and sale of city wide outdoor wireless broadband networks. The company is a pioneer in wireless broadband technology and has developed its own outdoor network solution. Radionet's technology is based on the WLAN standard conforming to IEEE 802.11. Radionet offers comprehensive broadband Internet base station networks for operators, Internet service providers, telephone companies, power utilities and system integrators.

Radwin - RADWIN addresses the dynamic market of fixed wireless communications. We offer you a winning business proposition: off-the-shelf solution of TDM and Ethernet over one wireless platform at a competitive price, outstanding quality and supreme performance - SIMPLY CONNECT!

Redline

Redline Communications - Redline Communications is a technology leader in the design and manufacture of standards-based broadband wireless access solutions. Using industry leading OFDM technologies, Redline's award-winning products provide unmatched high capacity and non-line-of-sight capabilities with proven performance, reliability and security. Ideal for a variety of access, backhaul and private network applications, Redline products meet the needs of carriers, service providers and enterprises worldwide.

Remec - REMEC develops and manufactures telecommunications infrastructure products for voice, video and data transfer over wireless networks and sophisticated microwave electronic subsystems for defense radar, communications and electronic warfare applications.

Solectek Corporation - Solectek, based in San Diego California, designs, manufactures and markets a full suite of broadband wireless connectivity products. We provide cost-effective, high-performance products for both indoor wireless LAN and outdoor wireless WAN markets.

SR Telecom - SR TELECOM - designs, manufactures and deploys versatile, Broadband Fixed Wireless Access solutions. For over two decades, carriers have used SR Telecom's products to provide field-proven data and carrier-class voice services to end-users in both urban and remote areas around the globe. SR Telecom's products have helped to connect millions of people throughout the world.

Stratex Networks - Stratex Networks has achieved international recognition for quality, innovation, and technical superiority in delivering data, voice, and video communication systems, including comprehensive service and support. Stratex Networks, with its broad product offering and worldwide sales and support organization, is strategically positioned to serve its customers' needs in wireless, high-capacity transmission technology.

Strix Systems - Strix Systems Access/One Network family of products deliver high performance wireless mesh network systems. Access/One Networks employ a multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-RF mesh networking architecture that delivers highly scalable and extremely flexible networking systems.

Symbol - Symbol Technologies, Inc., The Enterprise Mobility Company, is a recognized worldwide leader in enterprise mobility, delivering products and solutions that capture, move and manage information in real time to and from the point of business activity.

Teletronics Internations, Inc. - Teletronics International, Inc. designs, develops, and manufactures a complete line of products and solutions for high speed wireless broadband systems, including RF amplifiers, up/down frequency converters, wireless network bridges and routers. Since 1984, Teletronics has been a pioneer in developing cost-effective products and solutions for the ever-evolving broadband wireless industry.

TenXc Wireless - TenXc Wireless provides next-generation intelligent RF solutions for today's mobile wireless networks and their evolution to broadband. Targeted at network operators and wireless base station vendors, our solutions for improved spectral efficiency and signal quality enable service providers to meet growth demands by addressing capacity, quality, and coverage constraints with reduced network costs and engineering time.

TenXc has unique spectrum efficiency technology that provides significant improvement in terms of performance/cost on both a site and network basis versus purchasing new spectrum or acquiring new cell sites. The operator will realize major performance improvements such as: increased network capacity, improved quality of service and higher throughput for data services. With an innovative digital architecture interoperable with todays installed base of base stations, TenXc's products provide the needed flexibility for operators to target network hotspots and evolve their network as required.

Terabeam Wireless - Terabeam Wireless is the business name of YDI Wireless, Inc. Terabeam Wireless is a world leader in providing extended range, license-free wireless data equipment and is a leading designer of turnkey long distance wireless systems ranging from 9600 bps to 1.42 Gbps for applications such as wireless Internet, wireless video, wireless LANs, wireless WANs, wireless MANs, and wireless virtual private networks.

Towerstream www.towerstream.com

Trango Broadband Wireless - Trango Broadband Wireless, a division of Trango Systems, Inc., emerged in response to the demand for an alternative to costly and cumbersome wireless technology for high speed Internet access. Engineered to meet a wide spectrum of applications, Trango Broadband products operate in most license-exempt bands and are designed for high performance and ease of installation.

Tranzeo Wireless technologies - Tranzeo Wireless Technologies Inc. has emerged as an industry leader in designing, manufacturing and distributing high-speed wireless broadband communication systems all over the world. Our continued commitment to design excellence and years of experience provide our clients with custom designed wireless Point-to-Point and Point to multi-Point solutions.

Tropos - Tropos Networks is the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network systems. We deliver the fastest, lowest cost and simplest wireless broadband access solutions, as demonstrated by the world's largest installed base of metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks.

VCom Inc. - VCom Inc.,established in 1988, is a leading designer and manufacturer of high quality, state-of-the-art products for the Cable Television (CATV), Data over Cable, Digital Video, and Wireless Telecommunications industries.

Vivato - Vivato, Inc. is a wireless systems infrastructure company with technology that is based upon an innovative signal processing and antenna design. Vivato's unique system architecture enables cost-effective, large-scale outdoor and indoor wireless deployments for metros, rural communities, airports, seaports, warehouses and universities.

Vyyo, Inc. - Vyyo(R) offers broadband end-to-end solutions used by cable and wireless operators to deliver telephony services (T1/E1) and high-speed data connections to business and residential subscribers. The technology uses a modified version of the cable industry standard DOCSIS(R) architecture to deliver circuit-switched services (telephony), as well as voice and data over IP. The company sells systems directly to service providers and systems integrators worldwide. Vyyo's solutions have been deployed in North America, China, Southeast Asia and other areas of the world.

WaveIP - WaveIP is an emerging leader of Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) systems. WaveIP delivers Point-to-Multipoint as well as point-to-point solutions for both licensed and unlicensed spectrums.

WaveRider Communications - WaveRider Communications Inc. is the world leader in non-line-of-sight wireless broadband technology and deployments. With WaveRider's industry-leading product line and strong management team, the company is positioned for growth and to compete successfully in the world broadband market.

WiLan www.wi-lan.com

Wi-LAN - Wi-LAN is a global provider of broadband wireless communications products and technologies, offering businesses, including telecom service providers, and government enterprises effective, economic and secure wireless high-speed communications solutions. Wi-LAN specializes in high-speed Internet access, data network extension, wireless Voice-over-IP, and wireless data and telephony backhaul, utilizing its high quality products and industry-leading technologies.

WiMetro www.aiirnet.com

WiNetworks - WiNetworks mission is to enable broadband network operators to become full Multi Service Operators (MSOs), by integrating triple play services providing any service, on demand, anywhere. More and more customers are looking for bundled multi-service packages over a single bill. Telco, DBS and Cable operators are seeking fast and cost-effective ways to upgrade and extend their infrastructure to deliver triple-play services (Voice, Video, and Data).

Winova Wireless - Winova Wireless, Inc. provides technology, equipment and services to merge Long-Range Broadband Wireless with IP/Ethernet 802.11 (Wi-Fi) Broadband Networks.

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