Alvarion Releases BreezeACCESS VL 4.0

Alvarion Ltd. on Monday announced BreezeACCESS VL 4.0.

The new version of the fixed wireless system for the 5Ghz unlicensed band provides QoS for triple-play services. Version 4.0 is backward-compatible with all previously released BreezeACCESS VL hardware versions. It features more efficient air use, high-capacity throughput for all packet sizes, and call admission control using a unique dynamic resource allocation protocol mechanism.

Using multimedia application prioritization, version 4.0 supports high-performance voice and video through the implementation of a unique wireless link prioritization WLP protocol. Tests have indicated the use of MAP is mandatory to support both toll-quality VoIP and broadband data simultaneously, the company said.

"The growing use of voice and video services over broadband has made QoS and high-capacity support of small packet traffic a must for accelerating operator business models and our new BreezeACCESS VL 4.0 satisfies that critical need," said Rudy Leser, Alvarion's corporate vice president of strategy and marketing. "In contrast to legacy systems that can only offer ‘best efforts’ services, toll-quality VoIP requires advanced QoS algorithms as businesses everywhere increasingly see VoIP as a viable, cost-effective alternative. Moreover, municipal mesh networks, homeland security, public safety, and vertical applications, such as monitoring and maintaining oil rigs or other industrial assets will also benefit greatly from support of real-time video and voice applications in the 5GHz bands."

The BreezeACCESS VL 4.0 also offers other new features, such as security enhancements with segregated secure networks within networks through the use of VLAN QinQ 802.3ad, options for a FIPS 197 certified encryption mode, and the ability to allow and block specific CPE access. Also, BreezeACCESS VL is now certified according to the updated ETSI EN 301 893 revision 1.3.1 standards.

Alvarion www.alvarion.com

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