Quick and easy to deploy, the Newbridge broadband wireless access solution enables operators to capture new markets and revenue immediately. Its multiservices platform supports the simultaneous delivery of data, Internet, voice and video, and its integrated network and service management permits one-platform management of both wireline and wireless resources. Value-added applications also provide a host of differentiated business and residential services.

A key component of the Newbridge broadband wireless solution is the MainStreet ARIC (ATM Radio Interface Card). The ARIC fits into a universal card slot on the MainStreetXpress 36170 Multiservices Switch and provides an interface between the wireline and wireless worlds. Its main functions are ATM cell grooming and distribution, radio modulation/demodulation, forward error correction (FEC) and digital coding

The broadband wireless product portfolio is a family of products that are designed to work together. NIUs (network interface units) are connected to multiservices base stations via wireless links, and the base stations are, in turn, connected to the backbone network through wired or point-to-point wireless links. The system provides a communications infrastructure with both narrowband WAN and broadband ATM points of attachment. The entire network is managed, end-to-end by the industry-leading MainStreetXpress network and service management suite.