AirSynergy LTE-A Small Cell Wins Prestigious Telecoms.com Award

Airspan and Radisys Jointly Awarded in "Pushing the Limits - Mobile" Category


BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Feb 26, 2014) - Airspan Networks Inc., a leading provider of 4G LTE small cell RAN solutions wins the Telecoms.com award for its ground-breaking LTE-Advanced Small Cell, AirSynergy. Telecoms.com celebrates the pioneering achievements of the key players within the global communications industry.

The award winning AirSynergy product family is a range of high performance LTE eNodeB small cells optimized for deployment in Heterogeneous Networks on non-traditional deployment locations (e.g. on lamp posts, utility poles, rooftops). AirSynergy eNodeB supports non-contiguous, single, dual or triple carrier operation with support for LTE-Advanced Release 10 carrier aggregation. AirSynergy is available in most 3GPP LTE bands and delivers end user services speeds of over 300 Mbit/s.

AirSynergy also has Airspan's iBridge Small Cell Backhaul solution fully integrated to create a self-contained LTE access and backhaul Small Cell system that radically reduces a carrier's CAPEX and OPEX.

"This award by Telecoms.com demonstrates Airspan's leadership position in LTE-Advanced small cells. The AirSynergy product family is the only truly holistic small cell solution. We allow carriers with non-contiguous spectrum allocations to deploy carrier aggregation and other key release 10 HetNet features as LTE Macro networks are upgraded to LTE-Advanced," commented Eric Stonestrom, Airspan's CEO and President.

At MWC 2014 in Barcelona Airspan is demonstrating AirSynergy 3000, which supports triple carrier LTE-A operation and Carrier Aggregation of 3 x 20 MHz. The demonstration can be seen at Airspan's stand J30 in Hall 6. This live demonstration shows the service experience possible from a multi-carrier TD-LTE small cells and the capacities of > 300Mbit/s that users can expect.

Airspan solutions address the needs of carriers, operators and industrial applications across the globe. Airspan products include indoor and outdoor LTE Pico cells, and outdoor, compact Micro and Macro base stations, a wide variety of user devices, and advanced core network products, providing 4G LTE connectivity solutions operating in bands from 700 MHz up to 6.4 GHz.

About Airspan Networks Inc.
Airspan (OTCBB: AIRO) is a leading 4G wireless solution provider. With over 500 customers in over 100 countries and as a top vendor for carrier-class broadband wireless solutions, Airspan is recognized as a leader and pioneer in 4G and broadband wireless technologies. Providing an expansive product portfolio, Airspan offers customers the widest selection of 4G products in the industry with an unsurpassed level of technology to benefit their business case. www.airspan.com.

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