FOR RELEASE MAY 22, 2006
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Wavion, Inc.
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Sterling Communications, Inc.
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WAVION ACCESS POINTS TO PROVIDE
CITYWIDE WI-FI COVERAGE IN CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND DEPLOYMENT
FROM CONXX.
CONXX
to Cover Cumberland’s 10 Square Miles With
Approximately 120 Wavion WS410 Access Points, Delivering
Superior Throughput and Building Penetration at
Half the Comparable Cost
SAN JOSE, Calif., December 4, 2006 - Wavion™,
a company transforming the metro Wi-Fi market with
a new category of access points (APs), today announced
an agreement with CONXX of Cumberland, Maryland
to add approximately 120 WS410 spatially adaptive
APs to their network. CONXX designed, built and
operates Maryland’s Allegany County Network,
known as “AllCoNet,” one of the first
municipal wireless networks in the United States.
The addition of Wavion’s APs will enable the
network to deliver high-speed wireless Internet
(Wi-Fi) over Cumberland’s 10 square miles.
The unique and powerful digital beamforming technology
embedded in Wavion’s spatially adaptive APs
provides extended range and penetration, minimizes
dead spots, requires two-thirds fewer units than
other outdoor APs to cover the same area, and supports
the variety of applications and services CONXX is
extending wirelessly to Cumberland.
The system was installed as a part of a performance
contract between Johnson Controls and Cumberland,
Maryland, to retrofit several city buildings and
utility services – including replace water
meters with wireless models. The project’s
savings are a major driver behind the county's decision
to enhance the network and the services provided
to its residences.
“With this purchase, AllCoNet will be able
to deliver wireless Internet access to hundreds
of homes and small businesses in Cumberland that
have no other way to access the digital domain at
high speeds,” said Lee Fiedler, mayor of Cumberland.
“Thanks to Wavion’s technology, Johnson
Control’s service savings and CONXX’s
network, we’re able to bring the economic and
social benefits of wireless broadband to our citizens,
visitors, municipal workers, and public safety personnel.”
CONXX’s homegrown network – a necessity
after national telecommunication corporations refused
to upgrade services for the mostly rural county
– provides carrier-class communication services
to public safety, government, education, commercial,
and residential users throughout Allegany County.
“AllCoNet is a literal lifeline for this community,”
said David Kartchner, president of CONXX. “When
Cumberland wanted to add Wi-Fi to AllCoNet, we tested
a dozen different outdoor access points before discovering
the dramatic improvements offered by the Wavion
WS410. We need about 12 Wavion spatially adaptive
access points to cover one square mile of Cumberland.
It would take three times as many APs from any other
manufacturer to deliver that performance.”
Unlike other APs in the market, Wavion’s spatially
adaptive AP is based on six radio transceivers and
six antennas, and employs advanced digital beamforming
technology. Based on a custom-designed ASIC optimized
for the outdoors environment, Wavion’s technology
significantly improves the link gain and quality
to off-the-shelf, 802.11 standards-based Wi-Fi clients
– such as those found in nearly all recently
manufactured notebook computers.
“We’re honored to help transform Cumberland’s
municipal Wi-Fi deployment through the world’s
first metro-scale access points with digital beamforming,”
said Dr. Mati Wax, Wavion’s founder and CTO.
“What Wavion delivers today already outperforms
conventional APs, and we’re not done yet.”
About Wavion
Wavion is transforming the metro Wi-Fi market
with a new category of spatially adaptive access
point. The company’s digital beamforming and
SDMA technologies are the first and only to resolve
the significant performance, penetration and profitability
challenges facing metro Wi-Fi deployments. Wavion
is privately held and backed by world-class investors
including Sequoia Capital, Tel Aviv-based Elron
Electronic Industries Ltd., Star Ventures, and BRM
Capital. Wavion has offices in Silicon Valley and
Yoqne’am, Israel. To learn more, please visit
Wavion at http://www.wavion.net.
About CONXX
Founded in 2004, CONXX has developed network
architecture and infrastructure to help rural communities
overcome both digital and economic divides. The
CONXX Carrier Communication Platform™ combines
carrier-grade telecommunications technology at the
core with cost-effective Ethernet technology at
the edge. The CONXX Carrier Communication Observer™
is a full-service, web-based network management
and operating support system for municipal networks.
The privately held company’s wired and wireless
networks support multiple services and service providers.
CONXX is headquartered in Cumberland, Maryland,
and maintains a regional office in Salt Lake City,
Utah. For more information, visit http://www.conxx.net.
