Contagious becomes an ASP for Ericsson Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi Solutions.

As part of our ongoing growth and capacity building initiative, Contagious 128 a subsidiary of Contagious Group recently got approved as a key service delivery partners for the schedule role out of the Carrier grade WIFI solution for core network operators. With the acquisition of BelAir Networks, Ericsson gained a leading position in carrier-grade Wi-Fi equipment both in terms of installed base and product portfolio. Integrating BelAir Networks solutions with Ericsson's mobile infrastructure leadership accelerates the integration of Wi-Fi and cellular technologies and strengthens Ericsson’s heterogeneous network offering. Ericsson is also taking a leading role in the development of standards that support carrier-grade Wi-Fi, including PasspointTM (also known as Hotspot 2.0), enabled through industry bodies such as Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA), 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), and Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA).

The robust portfolio of indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi access points (AP), control and management solutions address any operator deployment opportunity. Massively scalable and designed to integrate seamlessly with the operator’s core network, the Ericsson Carrier-Grade Wi-Fi offering, proven with Tier One operators in some of the world’s largest Wi-Fi networks, is comprised of:

• Indoor and outdoor APs – these compact, robust AP’s support the latest 802.11n standard and feature a full range of power, mounting and backhaul options enabling fast and cost-effective deployment in any operator use case.
• Controllers – supporting up to 2000 APs each, controllers are designed for scalability, wide area mobility and carrier-grade security and can be premise-based or deployed at the operator’s location.
• Management – the management framework, comprising both Network Management and Business Intelligence, supports up to 100,000 access points (APs) and provides comprehensive fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security (FCAPS) functions to reduce deployment and troubleshooting time and speed up network deployment while collating valuable network statistics, trends and usage information to enable faster decision-making.