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News Release from: Wind River Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 May 2004
Airspan opts for integrated development
platform
Airspan Networks has chosed Wind River Platform for Network Equipment as the foundation for its next generation broadband wireless WiMax Subscriber Station.
Airspan Networks has chosed Wind River Platform for Network Equipment as the foundation for its next generation broadband wireless WiMax Subscriber Station Wind River's integrated Platform for Network Equipment provides the operating system, management, protocols and tools to provide Airspan a significant time to market advantage
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Because Wind River is the only DSO vendor that provides all the necessary development components - real-time embedded operating system, device management, high performance router stack and middleware technologies - in one integrated and tested Platform for Network Equipment, Airspan is able to accelerate time to market and ensure reliability of its end product.
"We chose to work with Wind River for our WiMax platforms because the integrated development solution is guaranteed to speed our time to market", said Paul N Senior, Vice President of Marketing at Airspan Networks.
"WiMax based technology is set to skyrocket and provide wireless DSL access to even the most congested metropolitan areas".
"Wind River is playing a critical role in the process, helping us establish first to market advantage".
"Wind River continues to be the only DSO vendor that provides a robust and integrated development platform", said Yuvel Tsuk, Regional Director Middle East for Wind River.
"Customers like Airspan turn to Wind River to help get them up and running quickly in emerging markets, where time to market and extreme reliability are paramount".
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