Broadband Wireless

Improve Service with 4G WiMAX

WiMAX and mobile WiMAX architectures and standards provide cost-effective, highly scalable, better wireless broadband service to you and your customers.

WiMAX quickly and economically brings high-speed Internet access to residential and business subscribers. Mobile WiMAX extends service to mobile devices for users on the go. And 4G WiMAX brings enhanced multimedia, native-mode web browsing, video, peer-to-peer connectivity, and much more. Cisco’s WiMAX solution is the least expensive 4G network to deploy and operate.

IP Transforms the 4G WiMAX Network

Today, the IP network provides the intelligence, security, traffic management, service convergence, and operational efficiencies that are crucial to making a 3G or 4G WiMAX network carrier-class.

The Cisco IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) architecture is now as important as radio frequency and spectrum when planning, designing, and deploying a network such as 4G WiMAX.

Cisco has a portfolio of 4G WiMAX and other WiMAX solutions that help you quickly and cost-effectively deploy your network. Products include:

• Base stations and base station antennas
• Gateways
• Wireless modems
• Mobile wireless USB cards
• Access points
• Edge routers
• Wireless service module
• Wireless control platform

Cisco 4G WiMAX and other WiMAX solutions bring broadband service to places where subscriber density is too low or geographies are too rugged for wired or cable service. They extend the IP NGN to new wireless subscribers through fixed or mobile modems or wireless cards.

Access Layer

Cisco desktop, USB, and outdoor modems provide highly secure, reliable WiMAX service to fixed and mobile devices, from PCs to PDAs and handsets.

WiMAX Radio Access Network

Cisco WiMAX base stations and base station antennas provide services to access devices and backhaul to aggregation devices, using two highly efficient wireless technologies:

• Adaptive beamforming doubles system throughput and almost halves the number of cell sites needed.
• Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) increases wireless throughput, range, and spectral efficiency.

Aggregation and Edge

The Cisco Broadband Wireless Gateway, deployed on a Cisco router, provides critical 4G WiMAX and other WiMAX access service network services, including:

• Device and subscriber authentication
• Mobility management
• Mobile IP foreign-agent functionality
• Encryption key distribution
• Advanced quality-of-service (QoS) management

Wireless Deployment, Control, and Management

The Cisco Wireless Services Module and Cisco Wireless Control System help you plan, deploy, and manage WiMAX networks.

Broadband Wireless Infrastructure for WiMAX and WiFi

Cisco Intelligent Services Gateway
Cisco Intelligent Services Gateways manage policies and subscribers by dynamically identifying subscribers, tracking their actions, and applying policies to govern QoS and security.

Cisco Broadband Wireless Gateway
The standards-based Cisco Broadband Wireless Gateway for WiMAX networks on the Cisco 7600 Series Router platform provides critical mobile WiMAX access service network services.

Cisco 7600 Series Router
As the industry's first carrier-class edge routers, the Cisco 7600 Series Routers bring IP/MPLS features and scalable, personalized IP services to the edge.

Cisco Mobile Wireless Home Agent
The Cisco Mobile Wireless Home Agent lets subscribers with mobile devices roam to another network without restarting applications or terminating and reestablishing a connection.

Cisco SCE 2000 Series Service Control Engine
The carrier-class Cisco SCE 2000 Series Service Control Engine conducts stateful application and session-based classification and control of IP traffic on a per-subscriber basis.

WiMAX Network and Modems

Cisco BWX 200 Series Modems
Cisco BWX 200 Series Modems on customer premises use advanced RF features to reduce the cost of providing WiMAX service to subscribers without compromising performance.

Cisco BWX 2300 Series Broadband Wireless Access System
The lower-cost Cisco BWX 2300 Series Broadband Wireless Access System uses the same advanced technology as the Cisco BWX 8300 Series with a two-element antenna array.

Cisco BWX 8300 Series Broadband Wireless Access System
The Cisco BWX 8300 Series Broadband Wireless Access System integrates adaptive beamforming, MIMO, and antenna arrays to continuously optimize radio links and increase performance.

WiFi Products

Cisco Aironet 1520 Series
The best-selling Cisco Aironet 1520 Series access point is designed for high performance, scalability, and security in outdoor wireless mesh networks.

Cisco Catalyst 6500/7600 Series Wireless Services Module
The Cisco Wireless Services Module brings exceptional security, redundancy, and ease of management to wireless LANs.

Cisco Wireless Control System
The Cisco Wireless Control System provides tools for wireless LAN planning, configuration, and management that reduce total cost of ownership.