LAS VEGAS, March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CTIA Wireless
2010, Booth 2023 -- Recent in-building performance tests conducted
for Airvana's (Nasdaq: AIRV) HubBub™ UMTS femtocell demonstrated
marked improvement of indoor 3G data performance, on average five
times faster than that of the macro-cellular network. Mobile data
network capacity and performance have become increasingly critical
for operators who need to meet the exploding demand for mobile data
services while providing a satisfying experience to their
subscribers. By delivering high data rates while diverting traffic
off the macro radio access network, the HubBub™ femtocell becomes a
powerful data offload solution for mobile operators.
In side-by-side testing, HubBub UMTS users achieved broadband
data rates approximately five times faster than on the existing
wireless macro network. Femtocell data rates also proved to be
significantly more consistent than the macrocell data rates. In
tests conducted under varying conditions, HubBub UMTS femtocell
users achieved a throughput of 5 Mbps or better -- out of a
theoretical peak HSDPA rate of 7.2 Mbps -- 80 percent of the
time.
To support the ongoing Airvana User Experience Lab program, the
company's radio frequency (RF) engineering team used the same
custom-developed testing hardware and software used to measure
performance of the HubBub CDMA femtocell (see Airvana User Labs
Demonstrate Greater Than Five-Fold Data Speed Increase with HubBub
Femtocell -- March 23, 2009). In the
latest tests, macrocell network data speeds and Airvana's HubBub
UMTS femtocell data speeds were measured in a variety of dwelling
types in Asia, Europe, the Middle
East and North America.
Detailed results of the performance testing for both the HubBub
CDMA and HubBub UMTS femtocells, which was conducted as part of
broader mobile operator femtocell trials, were published in the
January 2010 issue of the IEEE
Communications Magazine.
"Our User Experience Labs testing program continues to quantify
the remarkable in-building data speeds achievable with our 3G
HubBub femtocells," said David
Nowicki, vice president, product management and marketing,
Airvana. "By delivering a superior experience while removing both
data and signaling traffic from the RAN, femtocells can help
alleviate the network capacity crunch facing mobile operators
globally."
Despite the conventional wisdom that data traffic is the primary
culprit contributing to network capacity issues, research from
Airvana has shown that signaling traffic associated with smartphone
usage creates a significant "network load multiplier effect" on the
macrocell network. Smartphones are always on, moving between cell
sites and continually "polling" the network. This type of activity
results in smartphones producing eight times more signaling traffic
per bit of data transferred compared with a laptop. This
signaling load multiplier effect highlights the urgent need for
improved mobile data off-load strategies. For consumers, femtocells
provide a way to take control of their 3G experience by essentially
providing a "private 3G environment" exclusively for use by members
of the household or office.
Airvana and its partners provide operators with a complete line
of femtocell solutions including HubBub CDMA and UMTS residential
femtocells, HubBub UMTS High Capacity femtocell with HSPA+ data
speeds of up to 21 Mbps, Femtocell Service Manager, and a variety
of integrated home gateway femtocell solutions.
About Airvana
Airvana helps operators transform the mobile experience for
users worldwide. The company's high-performance technology
and products, from comprehensive 3G femtocell solutions based on
its HubBub™ CDMA and UMTS femtocells, to core mobile broadband
network infrastructure, enable operators to deliver compelling
broadband services to mobile subscribers, wherever they are.
Airvana's products are deployed in 70 commercial networks on six
continents. The company is headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass., USA, with offices
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.airvana.com.
Safe Harbor Statement
Any statements in this press release about future expectations,
plans and prospects for Airvana constitute forward-looking
statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. These statements typically contain the words
"believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," "continue"
and similar expressions. Actual results may differ materially from
those indicated by such forward-looking statements as a result of
various important factors, including without limitation the timing
and rate of femtocell market acceptance and growth, operator
femtocell deployment plans, the highly competitive and rapidly
evolving market in which Airvana competes, Airvana's limited
operating history, the fluctuation of its past operating results,
Airvana's anticipated reliance on sales through a new reseller,
Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson, for a significant portion of its revenues
and product and service billings and other factors discussed in
Airvana's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. In
addition, the forward-looking statements included in this press
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release. Airvana anticipates that subsequent events and
developments may cause its views to change. While Airvana may elect
to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the
future, it specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These
forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as
representing Airvana's views as of any date subsequent to the date
of this press release.
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SOURCE Airvana, Inc.