Builder of the worlds most advanced carrier-grade and cost-effective WiMAX base stations and subscriber units, Aperto® Networks, today announced at the CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas that its PacketMAX® solution now supports the 3.65 GHz and 4.9 GHz frequency bands for delivering broadband wireless services in the United States.

Apertos Fixed WiMAX solution, as a result, now incorporates support for 5.8 GHz, 5.4 GHz, 5.1 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 3.65 GHz, 3.5 GHz, and 3.3 GHz bands. The companys Mobile WiMAX solution supports, additionally, 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz, 3.3 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 3.8 GHz. PacketMAX offers the widest frequency support in the WiMAX ecosystem globally.

Vice President of Marketing and Alliances for Aperto Networks and WiMAX Forum Board Member, Manish Gupta, said: "Availability of WiMAX solutions in 3.65 GHz and 4.9 GHz spectrum opens up significant opportunity for service providers and municipalities across the United States". "This simple adaptation of our WiMAX Forum Certified® PacketMAX solution brings the benefits of the highly differentiated and globally deployed WiMAX offering to service provider, enterprise, and governmental organizations across the country. 4.9 GHz meets the need of the public safety market."

"It is anticipated that deployments in 3.65 GHz and 4.9 GHz bands, along with 5.8 GHz and 5.4 GHz bands, will result in the widest adoption of WiMAX as the preferred broadband wireless technology in United States", continued Gupta.

Aperto continues its singular focus on WiMAX.  Customers are helped to quickly and profitably roll out WiMAX-based services, by the companys comprehensive WiMAX Solutions Ecosystem (ApertoWiSE) of products, services, and tools.
   
Founder and Principal Analyst at Sky Light Research, Emmy Johnson, said: "By extending PacketMAX support to 3.65 GHz, Aperto has given another practical option for service providers who do not own licensed spectrum". "Smaller ISPs are able to cost-effectively compete head-to-head with larger providers, by taking advantage of WiMAX in frequencies like the 3.65 GHz spectrum. These types of strategic offerings are vital to regional service providers who want to leverage the benefits of WiMAX."

The PacketMAX family of products delivers the critical elements required to reliably extend wireless broadband services to a wide range of users—ranging from large enterprises and public-sector organizations, governments, to multi-tenant buildings and residences—using a single, standards-based platform. The PacketMAX 5000 base station, the companys flagship product, is also the only carrier-grade base station that can support and operate both the IEEE 802.16-2004 and IEEE 802.16-2005 WiMAX standards simultaneously, as well as licensed and license-exempt frequencies.