Aperto Networks Wins Californian WiMAX Contract

Aperto Networks says that it has won a contract from NextPhase Wireless, a service provider based in Southern California, for a WiMAX network in the 3.65 GHz band. Deployment will start in Orange County and then expand to the rest of Southern California, including the Los Angeles and San Diego markets. Later, the deployment will go national with additional coverage in states such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.

"This is the first of many significant wins we expect to announce this year in the 3.65 GHz band in the U.S.," said Manish Gupta, Vice President of Marketing & Alliances for Aperto Networks and WiMAX Forum Board Member. "With this lightly-licensed band, as well as the license-exempt 5.8 GHz band which we also support, operators are able to cost-effectively leverage the benefits of our versatile PacketMAX solution and deploy carrier-grade services to enterprise, SMB, and residential markets."

"We evaluated many competitive products before settling on PacketMAX," said Mark Kociela, Vice President of Business Development with NextPhase."PacketMAX has an impressive feature set including best-in-class QoS and the ability to scale beyond any other WiMAX base stations in the market. The test results exceeded our expectations for delivering differentiable voice and data services in the 3.65 GHz band. This platform also gives us the flexibility to roll out services in the 5.8 GHz band and that is a powerful option that we may use in the future."

Posted to the site on 17th June 2008