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First WiMAX VoIP In Bundaberg |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Wednesday, 15 November 2006 |
Queensland's
Buzz Regional Broadband could well be the first Australian ITSP to provide VoIP
services over WIMAX.
The company has reportedly deployed a WiMAX fixed wireless
broadband network in the northern state and will offer IP Telephony to its
business and consumer customers.
According to this story on mobilised, Buzz Broadband is using an Airspan
WiMAX system to service the 150,000 people in and around its service area which
covers a 30,000 square kilometer region of Queensland.
Buzz Broadband has spectrum allocation in the 3.4GHz band,
that covers Bundaberg, Maryborough, Hervey
Bay and Childers. It has
been operating a wireless Internet and VoIP service in the area for more than a
year using Airspan ASWipLL systems across 22 base stations and backhaul links.
Airspan says its deployment will support VoIP connectivity at distances
exceeding thirty kilometers from the base station sites. VoIP Emergency calls
are supported in accordance with customer SLAs and backed up by Airspan's VoiceMAX as part of the broadband access
network working in parallel with the quality of service (QOS) requirements of
the 802.16 WiMAX Forum standard.
Buzz Broadband is an unlisted public company that took over from regional ISP
Queenslander.net and is part of the DCITA Broadband Connect program.
Airspan says the solution is the first WiMAX Forum Certified solution to be
used in permanent commercial service in Australia. It is also the first
time a WiMAX Forum Certified technology offering commercial services has been
operated anywhere in licensed 3.4GHz spectrum in Australia.
Initial deployments will consist of MicroMAX Base Stations which will be linked
to Airspan's WiMAX Forum Certified ProST and EasyST subscriber units.
The EasyST is the world's first "self installable"
WiMAX Forum Certified modem, says the equipment provider. The EasyST and ProST
both incorporate Intel's ProWireless 5116 chip.
BuzzPhone
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