Airwalk was founded in 2002 to focus on developing small picocell and femtocell basestations for the CDMA marketplace.  Privately funded, the company is based in Richardson, Texas, and boasts a management team with experience gained at senior positions in major telecom vendors including Motorola, ATT Labs and Cisco. It raised a round of "Series B" venture capital funding of $10 million in February 2011.

CDMA products

Airwalk offers a range of femtocell, picocell and microcell CDMA basestation products.

Their residential femtocell product, branded Edgepoint was first announced in March 2007. The higher capacity enterprise version, Edgepoint PRO, followed in March 2008.

The EdgePoint femtocells support both 2G and 3G CDMA (1xRTT and EVDO Rev A), and operate in either the 800 or 1900Mhz band. The self-configuring, plug-and-play features make for easy installation.

Clusters of enterprise femtocells offer call handoff between each other for superior call continuity.

The architecture combines a base station transceiver, base station controller, and network interfaces into a single unit, and can be configured for either 1xEV-DO Rev. A or 1xRTT, thus enabling high speed data whilst maintaining compatability with older CDMA voice handsets.

Partnership with Tarata, who have developed a 3GPP2 standards compliant Femtocell Convergence Server, allow Airwalk femtocells to operate within the 3G CDMA femtocell standard.

The latest versions of the enterprise and residential femtocell products are shown below.

Airwalk announced their selection of Qualcomm's FSM femtocell chipset in March 2010.

A program of LTE femtocell product development has already shown prototype models, with commercial availability planned before end 2011. These use RF front end chips from Lime Microsystems, allowing a wide range of different frequency bands to be supported. Physical products were demonstrated at Mobile World Congress in February 2011.

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chandrasekhar said:

	UMTS FAP Hi is any vendor targeted single FAP solution for both the CDMA and UMTS solution.
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