Siemens And BelAir Team On Broadband Wireless Mesh And WiMAX Solutions

Boston -- BelAir Networks and Siemens Networks LLC announced a worldwide agreement enabling Siemens to market and sell BelAir Networks products globally under the Siemens brand as part of its mobile networking portfolio. The companies have already teamed on several projects for cable and cellular operators, focused on both WiMAX mesh deployments and cellular backhaul.

"We are pleased to work with BelAir Networks to deliver complete broadband WiMAX and Wi-Fi mesh solutions to our cable, cellular, and other service provider customers," said Joerg Lippert, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Networks, Siemens Networks. "The BelAir family of products gives network operators a proven, carrier-grade solution that can deliver the broadband services their customers expect from next generation wireless networks."

Siemens offers a suite of products and services to leverage service providers' existing assets to deliver converged wireless solutions. Siemens Broadband wireless solution includes the Siemens Wireless Integration @vantage (WI@), featuring web portal management, voucher management, access control, authentication and accounting. WI@, along with BelAir's Mesh radio and Siemens suite of professional services, enables service providers to design, build and maintain a wireless network, integrating within the existing core solutions, allowing roaming and access network sharing.

With solutions targeted at service providers, cable operators, and mobile network operators, the addition of the BelAir Networks mobile broadband wireless mesh portfolio - along with Siemens end-to-end capability and complete portfolio of wired, wireless, Core and IMS products - enables Siemens to deliver a new wireless access alternative to its converged solutions for data and voice services.

"Siemens is certainly one of the world's most experienced end-to-end solution providers and we have enjoyed an excellent working relationship with them on a number of industry-leading deployments," said Bernard Herscovich, President and CEO, BelAir Networks. "Working with Siemens enables BelAir Networks to address the increasing global demand for carrier-grade mobile broadband mesh networks, and extend our leadership in that market."

BelAir Networks product portfolio delivers deployment options and a migration path to future technologies. Supporting WiMAX, Wi-Fi, and 4.9 GHz Public Safety, the portfolio includes the flagship four-radio BelAir200 Wireless Multi-service Switch Router, the dual-radio BelAir100 Multi-service Node, the BelAir100C Multi-service Node featuring point-to-multipoint backhaul, the BelAir100S, targeted at cable operators, the single-radio BelAir50C and BelAir50S, and the six-radio BelAir300 Converged Multi-service Wireless Node, all managed by the BelAir BelView Network Management System.

SOURCE: BelAir Networks