Airspan is a WIMAX equipment manufacturer founded in 1998 with an R&D facility in the United Kingdom.

The first product, AS4020 platform, was based on CDMA radio technology adapted for fixed wireless access. The company currently provides a wide range of WIMAX base stations and customer premise devices.^[1] It won the WIMAX World Best of Show Award for the mobile WIMAX MIMAX device, a miniature WIMAX receiver covering all major licensed and unlicensed WIMAX spectrum.

Airspan has established presence in more than 100 countries and expanded its product lines, both through acquisitions and R&D. In October 2002 it acquired the WiPLL product line from the Israeli branch of Marconi, in December 2004 it took over an Israeli softswitch and VoIP gear maker ArelNet, and in November 2005 it bought out RadioNet, a Finnish maker of WiFi systems. The company currently has over 100 engineers developing Mobile WIMAX solutions.

In 2004, Airspan made an agreement with Neda Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Aspen Wind Corporation, to send radios to Kabul, Afghanistan.^[2]

The company was listed under NASDAQ symbol AIRN, but was delisted on September 18, 2009, and now trades as OTCBB: AIRO.

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