BelAir enhances GigXone small cell wireless system

BelAir Networks has unveiled the GigXone small cell system for mobile carriers. GigXone allows mobile carriers to offer network data capacity and wireless coverage in dense metropolitan areas, 'HotZones', office and school campus locations and for fixed carriers who want to offer mobile access outside. The GigXone system of multimode or Wi-Fi small cell network access and backhaul options is suited to extend existing broadband services into densely populated areas challenged by macro mobile coverage, capacity and/or backhaul issues, or overall business economics associated with providing wireless coverage and capacity in such areas, both indoors and outside. GigXone is built on BelAir Networks carrier Wi-Fi network integration with carriers' existing service infrastructure and billing systems. The GigXone physical system is comprised of Carrier Cloud and HotZone controllers and a portfolio of GPS-enabled small form factor, multimode access points and backhaul products. 

The Carrier Cloud Controller (BelAirCC8000) is deployed at the carrier's location and each controller can support up to 500 small cells. The BelAirCC8000 manages wide area mobility between small cells via mobile IP, L2VPN or GRE tunnels and supports standards based CAPWAP encrypted protocol and auto discovery of small cells, among other features. The HotZone Controller (BelAirHZ4000) is a premises based controller for ad-hoc and ‘hot zone’ deployments of small cell ‘clusters’ in areas such as stadiums, business and educational campuses, convention centres, malls and other high traffic enterprise locations. The BelAir1000 is a low-cost small cell built for indoor deployments in locations frequented by the carrier's customers including retail, SMB, and campus environments. It features POE and ‘phones home’ to the carrier network for ease of installation. BelAir1000 also features integrated antennas, GPS for tracking and auto updates, and standards based beamforming. The BelAir1100 is a small form factor cell designed for outdoor coverage in stadium and campus networks, while the BelAir3200, the 3G strand-mount Cable Wi-Fi product, includes an integrated Docsis 3.0 8x4 cable modem with eight bonded downstream channels delivering 240 Mbps of performance. GigXone is powered by BelAirOS for traffic management, authentication, lawful intercept and other advanced features to give carriers the ability to conduct remote RF engineering and management of the small cells. BelAirBI Business Intelligence collects network statistics, trends and usage information from within the carrier's own core network. BelView is a NMS for central provisioning, location identification and updates of GPS enabled GigXone small cells. With BelView, a carrier can manage one or many GigXone systems as part of the overall network. BelAirVC Virtual Client provides a tool for field-testing of BelAir or any third-party individual small cell or overall system performance, using laptops, Android and/or iPhone smartphones.