BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Airspan Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: AIRN - message board), a leading worldwide provider of WiMAX-based broadband wireless access networks and carrier class Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) solutions, today announced the commercial availability of the world’s first fixed and nomadic WiMAX product range that links desktop PCs, laptops, internet-ready telephone sets and other broadband devices directly to telecommunications networks.

The AS.MAX product range consists of Macro and Micro base stations and indoor and outdoor customer premises equipment (CPE), and has been extensively tested world-wide by “Beta” customers over a five-month period. Product verification and system proving is complete and the product is now “Generally Available” and ready to ship to customers on standard lead times directly from Airspan or via its WiMAX partners.

The AS.MAX products are currently being tested by Cetecom, the WiMAX Forum Certification Laboratory, as part of the laboratory set-up activities and as a platform for the development and verification of the WiMAX Forum Certification conformance test scripts. Airspan also participated in the 2nd WiMAX Forum Public Plugfest, where AS.MAX achieved interoperability with equipment made by three other vendors. AS.MAX CPEs and base stations were successfully shown to support video streaming at speeds greater than 7Mbit/s.

Eric Stonestrom, CEO and President of Airspan Networks, said: “It is very exciting to see this ground-breaking WiMAX product line ship to customers. We have been pleased by the level of early demand, which is driving us to manufacture hundreds of base station sectors and thousands of CPEs per month. Demand has exceeded our initial expectations, and demonstrates that service providers and network operators have been waiting for a ‘real’ 802.16-2004 WiMAX solution with the ability to support both outdoor and indoor, self-installable CPEs.”