Wi-Fi standards, and more recently, WiMAX standards have firmly placed broadband wireless technology in centre stage. Wireless broadband is no longer a niche technology used when the wired solutions are not available, but an attractive solution in its own right that can deliver services and solutions the alternatives cannot. As more companies jump onto the wireless broadband market, Airspan Networks is already ahead of the game. By combining WiMAX and Wi-Fi, Airspan products have been paving the way for citywide mobile broadband using innovation and practical real-world solutions.

An official ceremony was held in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, to launch Comstar’s nation-wide, WiMAX communications network powered by Airspan equipment. At the ceremony, Comstar’s CEO presented Airspan’s award-winning MiMAX Q-Series USB devices to Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev and President of Armenia, Serge Sarkisyan. The Presidents of both States participated in a real-time two-way video conference with a medical diagnostics center and

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The Irish Times Saturday, August 16, JASON CORCORAN in MoscowEIGHT Irish passport-holders are nervously waiting in a hotel in the Armenian capital of Yerevan before deciding whether to return to Georgia.The group, mainly Georgians with Irish passports and some Irish nationals, were among 50 people evacuated via the Armenian border at Gugeti when fighting broke out in South Ossetia.Kerryman Dr Mike McCarthy, who runs the International Medical Support Services (IMSS) clinic from Tbilisi, assisted in evacuating the Irish and Georgian passport-holders by helping with transport and logistics through the eastern side of Georgia to Armenia."The people evacuated were going to come back, but the reports about renegade Ossetian militia looting near the capital have spooked them."Most of the other Irish and passport-holders have made their way back to Ireland or gone on holiday," said Dr McCarthy.His ...