User's Manual

BreezeCOMPACT System Manual

Chapter 1 - System Description The BreezeCOMPACT Solution

1.2 The BreezeCOMPACT Solution

1.2.1 BreezeCOMPACT Highlights

BreezeCOMPACT is a small, lightweight, all-outdoor single box base transceiver station enabling easy

installation and maintenance and reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

BreezeCOMPACT enhances Alvarion's 4Motion product portfolio of BreezeMAX Macro and Micro BTS

systems with a compact all-outdoor 4x4 platform enabling extended and flexible installation capabilities

while sustaining 4Motion leading technological advantages and ecosystem.

BreezeCOMPACT is a weatherized carrier-class WiMAX 802.16e platform, based on Software Defined

Radio (SDR) that is SW upgradable for new technologies such as Time-Division Long-Term Evolution

(TD-LTE) and IEEE 802.16m. It is an integral part of 4Motion end-to-end solution. BreezeCOMPACT BTS

complements Alvarion's Macro BTS products for coverage and capacity extension as well as rural

deployment scenarios.

BreezeCOMPACT is a reliable platform utilizing the mature field-proven 4Motion modules and

ecosystem elements (e.g. ASN-GW, AAA, and WiMAX™ devices), hence delivering high product

availability.

Portable and mobile subscribers can connect to BreezeCOMPACT base station through various end-user

terminals such as USB dongles, Self Installed (SI) Residential Gateways (RGW), and Outdoor CPEs.

Alvarion's Compact, Micro and Macro solutions share similar functionality with same ecosystem,

allowing flexible mix & match approach to address various operator deployment needs.

Alvarion believes that compliance with standard-driven open architecture protects the infrastructure

investment, and opens the system to a variety of fully interoperable end-user devices. As such, 4Motion

is designed with open architecture and interfaces according to the WiMAX Forum networking working

group (NWG) profile C, which supports openness and enables flat as well as hierarchical topologies. In

addition, by keeping the radio resource management functionality in the Base Transceiver Station only,

Profile C delivers a faster, optimized handover mechanism.

1.2.2 Network Architectures

BreezeCOMPACT supports different network architectures:

 External ASN-GW

 Embedded ASN-GW Local Authentication

 Embedded ASN-GW Centralized Authentication

INFORMATION

In the current release only External ASN-GW network architecture is supported.