Aricent and Juni Collaborate on WiMAX Infrastructure Solutions for In-campus and Private Networks

Aricent’s WiMAX Integrated Gateway powers Juni’s Femto / Pico Base Station Family providing end-to-end WiMAX infrastructure solutions

Aricent™, a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications, today announced a collaboration with Juni Global (Juni) to provide a complete end-to-end WiMAX infrastructure solution for in-campus (enterprise / residential) and private networks.  Juni’s Femto / Pico Base Stations are ideal solutions for operators looking to expand high bandwidth mobile Internet services within campuses and small private networks.

Increasingly, in-campus and private networks are being tasked with supporting the high data rates demanded by today’s sophisticated end users. However, due to highly constrained budgets and limited resources these dedicated networks require high efficiency in terms of incurred capital and operating expenses. The combination of Aricent’s standards-based, field proven WiMAX Integrated Gateway (WING) software framework and Juni’s extensive suite of Femto / Pico Base Stations offer the ideal solution for those challenged with deploying robust in-campus and private networks. The Aricent WING powered Juni solution supports full interoperability with the WiMAX Forum Network Working Group (NWG) defined R6 interface, ensuring a standard reference interface to  equipment within the WiMAX network. The joint effort creates significant technology synergies, offering System Integrators and in-campus Service Providers a high-performance, end-to-end WiMAX network, accelerating time to market and reducing risk and cost.

“We are quite pleased with the support from Aricent and the functionality that their products offer. We are excited about the market potential for the in-building private network market sector that the Aricent products have enabled us to pursue,” said Jay Syverson, sr. director USA, at Juni. “Aricent’s products have been an important enabler of Juni’s technologies, allowing us to rapidly develop complete solutions that meet the markets’ needs, like our MAX-LAN controller that is used in our Smart in-building system.”

Aricent offers a WiMAX network-in-a-box software solution, WiMAX Integrated Gateway WING, designed for equipment vendors looking to provide WiMAX-based solutions in a short time-frame using pre-packaged and pre-optimized software. At its heart, WING consists of an ASN-Gateway integrated with an AAA server and HA server on the same physical node.

Aricent’s WING product is an ideal low footprint solution, with low CAPEX and OPEX requirements, supporting 100-20,000 simultaneous attached subscribers. It is a highly flexible solution, designed to work in tandem with the existing Macro / Peer WiMAX networks and provides secure service to both local and roamed-in subscribers. Its flexible licensing scheme allows box licensing based on number of subscribers, Base Stations or data throughput.

To learn more about Aricent’s WiMAX Product offerings, please visit:  http://www.aricent.com/expertise/Wimax.aspx. 

Juni provides a full range of Femto-and-Pico-cells that offer Service Providers a complete line of WiMAX solutions. Juni has developed the Smart in-building System, the JFW-900, for in-building and campus solutions. The JFW-900 utilizes the Aricent WING in its local MAX-LAN controller and can support up to 200 access points.  

Juni’s smaller indoor solutions include an in-home Femtocell (JFW-500) and a larger Picocell, the Hot Spot MAX (JFW-600), which provides multiple services including fixed Ethernet, enterprise grade Wi-Fi and WiMAX . Juni’s novel approach to in-band back haul uses the WiMAX macro network and Juni’s Provsioning (JS-100) and Self Organizing Network (JS-200) Server to provide automated integration of this powerful solution.

For outdoor solutions Juni offers a line of outdoor Picocells such as the JFW-700, which can be configured with in-band back haul, cable modem, DSL and can be set up as a strand mount and with Wi-Fi. Juni is also exploring solar powered options.

To learn more about Juni’s WiMAX Product offerings, please visit:  http://www.juniglobal.com/Products/products_wimax_femto600.asp.

“We are delighted to add Juni to our WiMAX ecosystem. We continue to see significant traction within the in-campus market using WiMAX technology, and are confident that this joint initiative provides genuine benefits to WiMAX System Integrators and Network Operators,” said Rakesh Vij, assistant vice president at Aricent. “Juni’s expertise in providing in-campus Picocell / Femtocell Base Stations solutions, combined with Aricent’s unique WING offering, simplifies the end-to-end network setup with lower capital and operational expenditure.” 

Keywords & tags: WiMAX, Profile-C, WiMAX BS, Base Station, ASN Gateway, Enterprise WiMAX, In-campus WiMAX

About Aricent

Aricent is a global innovation, technology and services company focused exclusively on communications. Aricent combines the leading innovation capabilities of frog design with unparalleled domain expertise in communications as a strategic supplier to the world's foremost infrastructure, application and service providers. The company’s investors include Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office and The Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board. For more information, visit http://www.aricent.com

About Juni

Juni was established in Sydney, Australia in 1988 supplying repeaters and other coverage solutions. Since that time Juni has expanded its product line to include small Base Station products and now has offices in Australia, Korea, United States and Spain that serve customers in Asia Pacific, the Americas, Europe directly. Juni’s world Class R&D center in Seoul is comprised of elite hand-picked members who are focused upon the design and manufacturing 4G Picocells and Femtocells. Juni is a privately held and funded company.

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