Market: Redline Communications serves fixed / mobile wireless broadband access and backhaul solutions.
Deployments: The company presently has around 50,000 installations in 80 countries across 6 continents. It works with a network of more than 100 partner distributors that support voice, data and video services.
Scale of Deployments: A typical deal for Fixed WiMAX ranges between $250 - $500k in the beginning and can go upto $2 - $20 Million for a commercial deployment over a period of several years. For Mobile WiMAX the company expects larger trials with multi-city rollouts similar in investments to current 2G/3G mobile coverage at 50% of the CAPEX involved in a 3G network It has currently 130 networks globally testing and trailing its solution. 33% of these networks are commercial deployments. Some of the commercial WiMAX networks running on Redline solution include Personal in Paraguay, Saudi Telecom and MTN. Personal has around 4000 subscribers presently and expects to reach 10,000 by the year end. Similarly Saudi Telecom has installed around 500 base stations and MTN is targeting around 10,000 subscribers with the launch of services by the year end in two cities.
WiMAX Revenues: $15 million for the first half of 2007
Vendor Ranking: Redline is among the top 5 solution providers for WiMAX.
Product Details: RedCONNEX is a first and third generation system that is used in Point-to-Point and Point-to-MultiPoint Infrastructure marketplace for backhaul and access applications in the frequency bands between 4.9 GHz and 5.85 GHz with channel size support for 10,20 and 40 MHz. All 5.4 and 5.8 GHz products of this family are being developed while 4.9 GHz products are in Beta test and shipping is expected to start in 1Q 2008. For this product the competition comes from Motorola Orthogon at the high end and Alvarion VL at the mid-range. Proxim MP.11 competes with it at the low-end.
RedMAX is the second generation Fixed WiMAX solution addressing the broadband wireless access market for stationary and nomadic applications in a PMP approach in the 3.3 – 3.8 GHz bands targeting enterprise and SMB access, hotspot backhaul, residential access, nomadic and portable access and general multipoint backhaul applications. It supports data, voice and video centric services like VoIP and Video Surveillance. Currently Redline is shipping base stations in all the bands between 3.3 – 3.8 GHz, Indoor and Outdoor CPE while the PCMCIA based SU-PC is in trials for 3.4 – 3.6 GHz band. Alvarion’s BreezeMAX and AirSpan’s AS.MAX products are the competing products.
RedMAX 4C is the fourth generation Mobile WiMAX product solution including SCS-1000 base station and the Outdoor, Indoor and PC Card CPE. It is designed for broadband wireless access market for stationary, nomadic, portable and mobile applications in a PMP approach in the 2.5 – 2.69 GHz and 3.3 – 3.8 GHz bands targeting enterprise and SMB access, hotspot backhaul, residential access, portable & mobile access and general multipoint backhaul applications enabling data, voice and video applications like VoIP and Mobile IPTV. RedMAX 4C has just had a demo at the WiMAX Forum PlugFest and the product is in the process of being submitted for WMF certification. The competing solutions for this come from Motorola (MOTOwi4), Alcatel-Lucent, Nortel, Samsung, Nokia-Siemens Networks and Alvarion.