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Generally, radio interference degrades a WiFi (News - Alert) network's performance. The interference sources can be from day to day consumer devices such as cordless phones, wireless cameras, microwave oven, Bluetooth, monitors, and more. Consequently, avoiding interference in a city environment seems difficult.

 

In this regard, Israel-based metro and rural Wi-Fi and Wireless broadband access solutions provider Wavion has introduced a new Combo 5.X GHz Base Station tailored for high-interference environments.

 

Designed to cope effectively with high-interference environments, Wavion's new Combo WBS-5000 Sector Base Station operating in the entire 4.9-5.9 GHz band is based on the company's spatially adaptive beamforming technology. It utilizes three radios and three 120 degrees sectorial antennas.

 

With this, the new offering is capable of providing enhanced interference immunity, extended range, superior non-line-of-sight coverage, high throughput and robust connectivity to any off-the-shelf standard 802.11a based CPEs.

 

According to officials with the company, Wavion's latest Base Station is able to provide superior interference resilience due to narrow spatial directivity, provided by the sector antennas and the beamforming, in conjunction with its unique interference handling capabilities.

 

The new Wavion Carrier-Grade WBS-5000 Sector Base Station for 5.X GHz band was released as a companion to the company's already existing WBS-2400 and WBS-5800 Base Stations, which are operating in the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz bands, respectively.

 

The new Combo WBS-5000 can be installed either as stand-alone or as part of a multiple-sector deployment. It can be deployed as stand-alone in cases where the coverage requirements are limited to a 120 degrees sector. It can be deployed as part of a multiple-sector deployment, with up to three co-located sectors, in cases where higher capacity is required per given area.

 

In addition, the new offering eliminates the need for costly high towers and can be easily installed on poles and yet delivers high quality and homogeneous coverage. Furthermore, the flexible open architecture and ruggedized and weather-proof enclosure add significantly to the unique value offering for Telecom Operators, says Wavion.

 

Apart from the customary 20 MHz bandwidth, the new base station also enables 10 MHz channel bandwidth. This helps in further enhancing its noise-coping capabilities.

 

"Our powerful interference-resilience capabilities provide operators with the best radio performance and coverage, enabling them to provide high quality service even in most challenging environments," said Mati Wax, founder and CTO of Wavion. "The addition of this new base station to our portfolio greatly enlarges our addressable market and provides our customers the flexibility to address their various internet connectivity, video surveillance and backhauling needs."

 

The company will be showcasing its new offering at the upcoming CommunicAsia 2010 event to be held in Singapore.

 

In the recent news, TMCnet reported that Wavion partnered with Winncom (News - Alert) Technologies, a provider of wireless and wired broadband deployments and telecommunication technology and solutions, in order to provide customers in the North American region with Wi-Fi solutions that leverage Wavion's powerful, spatially adaptive beamforming technology