BelAir comes indoors with 11n access point
Published: 28 November, 2008
BelAir Networks is best known as one of the most prominent vendors, along with Tropos, of outdoor Wi-Fi mesh equipment, and gained a high profile during the US metrozone bubble. Now that some of the luster has disappeared from that market, BelAir is extending its technology into a more buoyant Wi-Fi sector, indoor 802.11n systems for high speed media networks or enterprise WLans.
The company has launched a compact, dual-radio, dual-band 11n indoor access point, the BelAir20 AP, which can be configured with wired or wireless backhaul. It can also act as a bridge between indoor and outdoor networks, to improve indoor penetration for existing hotzone operators, and uses the same operating system and network management software as the outdoor systems.
Other advantages claimed by BelAir are hosted, software-based control, which it says can lower capex by 30%; and support for wireless backhaul between APs, which can reduce installed costs by up to 40%. BelAir has focused on wireless backhaul applications as a key area of growth for its technology for several years, especially with the downturn in the metrozone space.
Aiming its portfolio mainly at carriers and WISPs, BelAir also offers 5.8GHz WiMAX and WiMAX/Wi-Fi systems, and products for the US public safety band, 4.9GHz.
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