Airvana Spotlights CDMA Femtocell Leadership at CTIA Wireless 2008

CHELMSFORD, MA, March 26, 2008 —  Airvana, Inc. (Nasdaq: AIRV), the company transforming the mobile experience, will showcase its comprehensive solutions for fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) at CTIA Wireless 2008 (Booth 3321), taking place April 1-3, 2008 in Las Vegas, NV. In live demonstrations, the company is highlighting the HubBub™ CDMA femtocell, the only femtocell to support both 1x RTT and EV-DO services; the Universal Access Gateway (UAG), a convergence gateway for innovative femtocell or Wi Fi-enabled FMC services; and the Femto Service Manager, which provides standards-based, highly scalable management and auto-configuration capabilities for femtocell deployments.

According to the CDMA Development Group (CDG), the number of CDMA subscribers exceeded 431 million globally at the close of 2007, a year-over-year increase of nearly 15 percent, and femtocells are expected to play a key role in CDMA network growth. Airvana offers the most comprehensive femtocell solution for CDMA networks, with in-home femtocells and a femto network gateway as well as the software to accelerate and scale deployments through automated configuration and remote management. In addition, Airvana’s HubBub femtocell supports up to six concurrent users, features powerful RF interference mitigation capabilities, has a software-defined feature set to enable remote provisioning of new services, and is the only CDMA femtocell that supports both 1x-RTT and EV-DO.  Based on these factors, Airvana’s HubBub CDMA femtocell has been named a CTIA Emerging Technology Award finalist.

Another key factor in successful femtocell deployments is multi-vendor interoperability and the ability to leverage existing network investments, so Airvana is working closely with leading CDMA equipment manufacturers to provide operators with femtocell and gateway technologies optimized to work with their existing core mobile network infrastructures. To that end, Airvana and Motorola recently announced that the two companies have entered into an OEM agreement for CDMA femtocells. 

“The customer desire to use their mobile phone as their primary communications device, coupled with the rise in 3G services, is the driving force behind FMC.  And to provide customers with the best FMC experience possible, you need to support both 1x-RTT and EV-DO services,” said Dave Nowicki, vice president, Marketing, Airvana.  “Our CDMA femtocells, which uniquely support both voice and mobile broadband services, and our advanced UAG technology, when paired with the core mobile network infrastructure of our partners, is a compelling solution for operators wishing to deliver FMC options that truly meet their subscribers’ requirements for features and performance.”

Airvana’s macro network EV-DO technology is currently deployed in more than 40,000 base stations in networks covering nearly half a billion subscribers worldwide.  The company has leveraged this extensive experience to deliver high performance femtocell solutions for CDMA networks, which include:

• HubBub CDMA femtocell – Airvana’s femtocell for CDMA networks supports both 1x-RTT and EV-DO services to deliver a consistent mobile experience that mirrors that of the macro network.  HubBub can support up to six concurrent users and features powerful RF interference mitigation capabilities to help ensure graceful coexistence with the macro network. HubBub’s software-defined feature set makes it efficient and cost-effective to add new services in response to customer demand.
• Femto Service Manager (FSM) – provides operators with a TR-069 standards-based, scalable management and auto-configuration platform for femtocell deployments.   Airvana’s FSM enables operators to manage femtocell deployments while leveraging their existing management infrastructure.  The Airvana FSM allows operators to fully automate device configuration, initiate and manage remote software upgrades, perform remote diagnostics using collected fault and performance data, and easily handle device authentication.  The FSM also incorporates an innovative Automated Network Planner (ANP) that generates a specific configuration per individual femtocell that maximizes RF performance. 
• Universal Access Gateway – a purpose-built convergence gateway designed to address the unique security, mobility and performance challenges that result from mobile operators using the Internet as an extension of the radio access network.  Airvana’s UAG can be used to support both femtocell and Wi-Fi generated traffic.  This traffic is sent over the Internet in a secure tunnel to the UAG, which authenticates and inspects the traffic before sending it to the mobile operator’s network. As subscribers move between their home or office and the macro cellular network, the UAG maintains seamless mobility over a secure, QoS-enabled, wire-speed connection.

Airvana’s CDMA femtocell solutions are currently in trials with mobile network operators and are expected to be commercially available in the second half of 2008.

About Airvana
Airvana specializes in helping operators transform the mobile experience for users worldwide. The company’s high-performance technology and products, from comprehensive femtocell solutions to core mobile network infrastructure, enable operators to deliver broadband services to mobile devices, independent of physical location. Airvana is headquartered in Chelmsford, Mass., USA, with additional offices in the United Kingdom, China, India, Japan and Korea.  For more information, please visit the company’s Web site at http://www.airvana.com/.