BOCA RATON, Florida and
PHOENIX, May 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Airspan Networks
announced its collaboration with ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON),
driving energy efficient innovations, to capitalize on
industry-leading Wi-Fi 6 performance solutions, utilizing the
QCS-AX chipset for Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) applications.
With hundreds of thousands of sites deployed globally, Airspan
is at the forefront of providing Communications Service Providers
innovative wireless solutions for high-reliability public and
private, urban, suburban and rural applications. Airspan delivers
high-capacity, high-performance solutions that allow
cost-effective, rapid deployment at scale.
Next-generation Airspan solutions will leverage ON
Semiconductor's QCS-AX Wi-Fi 6 family of chipsets. These products
will maximize the benefits of the new Wi-Fi 6 standard including
the additional spectrum in the 6 GHz band. The OFDMA-based 8x8
beamforming technology utilizing 160 MHz channels with modulation
rates of 1024 QAM will significantly improve interference immunity,
enabling higher-spectral efficiency and delivering multi-gigabit
capacity.
"We are excited to expand our collaboration with ON
Semiconductor to deliver Fixed Wireless Access/Backhaul and
indoor/outdoor Wi-Fi Hotspots that offer significantly enhanced
performance at lower cost", said Eric
Stonestrom, Airspan's CEO.
"The FWA innovation has expanded Wi-Fi use case into outdoor
space. By leveraging Wi-Fi 6 offload to LTE/5G networks, end
consumers can expect fast and seamless connectivity. We are
thrilled to continue working with Airspan to bring new connectivity
to underserved markets," said Irvind
Ghai, VP Marketing, Quantenna Connectivity Solutions at ON
Semiconductor.
FWA demands continue to advance where capacity and reliability
are critical for day-to-day use in schools, hospitals, law
enforcement, economic growth, etc. Airspan Networks is positioned
to continue to address market needs and shape the networks of
tomorrow.
About Airspan
Airspan is a US based multi-award winning 4G & 5G RAN vendor
that supports fully virtualized cloud-native open architectures and
boasts close to one million cells deployed in the most cutting-edge
tier 1 networks and vertical applications across the globe. With an
expansive product portfolio of indoor and outdoor, compact Femto,
Pico, Micro and Macro base stations. The perfect tool kit to
exploit the full potential of technologies such as mmWave, Sub
6GHz, Massive MIMO and open V-RAN architectures. As well as an
industry leading fixed wireless access and backhaul solution
portfolio for PTP and PTMP applications using Wi-Fi 6. For more
information, visit www.airspan.com.
Airspan is not subject to the informational reporting
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and,
accordingly, does not file reports, financial statements, proxy
statements, information statements or other information with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. This press release may contain
forward-looking statements. For information about forward-looking
statements visit www.airspan.com/fls
About ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ON) is driving energy efficient
innovations, empowering customers to reduce global energy use. The
company is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based solutions,
offering a comprehensive portfolio of energy efficient, power
management, analog, sensors, logic, timing, connectivity, discrete,
SoC and custom devices. The company's products help engineers solve
their unique design challenges in automotive, communications,
computing, consumer, industrial, medical, aerospace and defense
applications. ON Semiconductor operates a responsive, reliable,
world-class supply chain and quality program, a robust compliance
and ethics program, and a network of manufacturing facilities,
sales offices and design centers in key markets throughout
North America, Europe and the Asia
Pacific regions. For more information, visit
www.onsemi.com.
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ON Semiconductor and the ON Semiconductor logo are registered
trademarks of Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC. All other
brand and product names appearing in this document are registered
trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. Although the
company references its website in this news release, information on
the website is not to be incorporated herein.
Media Contacts:
Damiano Coletti
Airspan Networks, Inc.
(561) 893-8670
mediarelations@airspan.com
Parag Agarwal
Vice President Investor Relations and Corporate Development
ON Semiconductor
(602) 244-3437
parag.agarwal@onsemi.com
Sally Chan
Public Relations
ON Semiconductor
(669) 209-5659
sally.chan@onsemi.com
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