Alvarion gets DR Congo Wimax deal
Alvarion announced that it has been selected by Cielux in DR Congo for a new $45 million Wimax deployment. Alvarion has 60 WiMax deployments in 30 African countries including Telkom SA, MTN Uganda, Kenya Data Networks, Microcom Congo, Mercury Angola and Monarch Nigeria.
Cielux will provide voice and broadband services over Wimax. The initial public exhibition of WiMax network is planned for June 2009, with 10,000 subscribers expected on the network by the end of the year. Alvarion has been deploying VoIP over OFDM systems for over 10 ten years and most of its WiMax deployments include commercial VoIP.
The new 802.16e complaint product from the vendor is an advanced version of 802.16d, providing better radio performance by increasing both coverage and capacity of the network.
In Africa, Alvarion is up against companies like Huawei and ZTE that are making significant inroads into Wimax in the continent. Alvarion claims to have over 70 per cent of the market in Africa.
