WiMAX Base station Manufacturers/suppliers

This page covers wimax base station specifications and provides links to study wimax technology. It covers manufacturers/suppliers of wimax base station.

WiMAX is used for broadband data access by fixed and mobile terminals. This page lists out manufacturer of wimax base station as per IEEE 802.16-2004 standard OFDM phy and mac layer specifications.

Generic specifications

Following features need to be considered when you are planning to purchase base station as per wimax standard.

FFT Size.
It is based on Fixed wimax or mobile wimax.
Bandwidth options supported.
RF Frequency support, this varies as per frequency allocated in the individual country.
Modulation/code rate supported.
Topology (TDD/FDD) supported for frame structure.
MIMO options and beamforming option if required.
Frame size
No. of subscribers stations supported(if manufacturer specify)

Fujitsu

Model available is BroadOne WX300 which is Mobile wimax Base Station. www.fujitsu.com

Redline Communication

Model AN100U www.rdlcom.com

Alvarion

Model available is BreezeMAX, it is 802.16e standard compliant mobile wimax base station. www.alvarion.com

NEC

www.nec.com

Model available is NWA-046895-001.

Airspan- www.airspan.com

MicroMAX and Airsynergy models are wimax base station products from Airspan. Airsynergy also has LTE features.

Runcom

Model available is Pico-o-2.5-c-1w-1DC. It supports mobile wimax wave 2 base station features.

www.runcom.com

Samsung


Model available is SPI 2410, which supports mobile wimax 16e base station features.
www.samsung.com

Aviat networks


Model available is StarMax 6400 which supports mobile wimax base station specifications as per IEEE 802.16e-2005 standard.

www.aviatnetworks.com

Aperto Networks


Model available is PacketMAX 3000, which supports fixed wimax base station specifications.
www.apertonet.com

ZTE wimax Base station

Model available is ZXSDR.
wwwen.zte.com.cn

Huawei


Model available is DBS3900 which supports mobile wimax base station features.
www.huawei.com

Useful Links

Refer our page on 16d wimax physical layer which describes all the modules with modulation-code rate example.
Refer our page on WiMAX Subscriber station Equipment Vendors.
Refer our page on WiMAX System on Chip which mentions popular base station and subscriber station chip vendors as per wimax standard.
Refer our page on hardware manufacturers of wimax.
Refer our page on what are the functions of wimax.
Refer our page on comparison of fixed wimax and mobile wimax.
Refer our page on wimax system related terms.
Refer our page on WiMAX MAC layer or Layer 2 as per IEEE 802.16-2004 standard.
Refer our page on IEEE 802.16 family of standards.
Refer our page on 802.16m technology based wimax system.
Refer our page on OFDMA physical layer or Mobile wimax physical layer.
Refer our page on OFDM versus OFDMA which covers difference between OFDM and OFDMA concepts.

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