Airvana (who bought Cambridge, England based 3Way and are expected soon to IPO) are headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusets, USA. They produce the HubBub femtocell, a 3G only device with variants for CDMA (EV-DO) and UMTS (HSPA) markets and provide the femtocell card inside a Thomson DSL/WiFi/3G home hub, and Pirelli's integrated femtocell/broadband modem. The company also offers complete CDMA radio access networks for outdoor (macro) use, differentiated by only using IP architecture.

Airvana has partnerships with several major suppliers including Alcatel-Lucent, Hitachi, Motorola, and Nokia Siemens Networks. They believe that operators want to deal primarily with their encumbent vendors, to ensure integration with billing, network management and existing operational systems.

Their Universal Access Gateway offers to convert UMTS and CDMA into WiMax for long distance backhaul (similar to Samsung Ubicell). Its architecture includes both the femtocell (personal base station), UAG Security and Mobility Gateway, and Home Base Station Manager.

In September 2007, Airvana confirmed interoperability with Nokia Siemens Network femto gateway. Voice calls have already been made and further interoperability testing continues. Both femtocell and femto gateway can be sold independently.

January 2008, announced selection of Motive's HDM solution which uses the TR-069 standard for remote device management (HDM = Home Device Manager).

March 2008, announced a global OEM agreement with Motorola , who will resell their CDMA femtocells.

October 2008,  Hitachi and Airvana agreed a suupply arrangement for Airvana CDMA femtocells and gateways into the Japanese market.

December 2008, Pirelli Broadband confirms that they have incorporated Airvana's femtocell module into their DSL broadband router.

White paper on femtocell benefits and issues available from their website here

Airvana's products are used by more than 30 operators worldwide, including Bell Mobility, Sprint, Telefonica, Telus and Verizon Wireless.

The company's headquarter's are in Chelmsford, Massachussetts USA with development centres also in Bangalore, India and Cambridge UK.

Watch a video from Randy Battat, the CEO, explaining what a Femtocell is (dated Sep 2007)

and here Paul Callahan explains the history of Airvana, through its OEM agreement with Nortel to supply EV-DO outdoor basestations, then covers what a femtocell is. He predicts market demand of 400,000 units in the US (50% each CDMA and UMTS technology), growing quickly to millions of units in 2009. He quotes operators as driving "brutal" demands in their RFPs for femtocells, requiring many features.

Head of Product Management and Marketing, Dave Nowicki uncovers a little of his background and enthusiasm for femtocells in this interview from February 2009. He claims the hottest markets are in Asia (Japan, Taiwan, Singapore) and USA.

Texas Instruments claimed that Airvana use their DSP as the main chipset platform in their product.

Airvana company website