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Zhone Unveils Metro Wi-Fi Solution
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Zhone Technologies, a provider of multi-service access solutions, has
introduced SkyZhone a metro Wi-Fi system designed to deliver
high-capacity, high-reliability, multi-service networks.
The company said that SkyZone features:
- Industry's first metro Wi-Fi solution to utilize 802.11n, all-MIMO
antenna architecture, integrated DSL backhaul, and line powering.
- Design to address the challenges most directly affecting system
operational costs and performance.
- Provides capacity and reliability to deliver true, municipal and
commercial, multi-service Wi-Fi networks.
Zhone stated that SkyZhone revitalizes the viability of metro Wi-Fi
networks by increasing overall network capacity, coverage and
reliability when compared to the traditional solutions used in many of
the first outdoor Wi-Fi projects. The system also enhances the
economics of metro Wi-Fi by giving network engineers the ability to
leverage existing network backhaul facilities and greatly expand
feasible locations for radio placement.
As of the middle of last year, hundreds of municipalities worldwide had
planned public Wi-Fi projects. However, network performance and
reliability issues combined with the costs of building and managing
ground-up networks have greatly hampered deployments, said Steven
Glapa, Zhone's vice president of marketing and product management.
Zhone addressed these challenges head-on with SkyZhone, which, for the
first time gives network operators the means to utilize Wi-Fi to
deliver a truly capable and reliable multi-service network .
Zhone's numerous new technology innovations can fundamentally expand
the viability of metro Wi-Fi as a consistent mainstream access medium,
said Ron Westfall, Research Director, Access and Applications, for
Current Analysis. SkyZhone gives service providers and municipalities a
new tool to deliver on the promise of metro Wi-Fi by supplying the
essential reliability, improved high-bandwidth performance and enhanced
coverage needed to support and scale competitive metro Wi-Fi services.
ACD.net, a Mid-Michigan independent Phone and Internet Provider,
selected SkyZhone to deploy networks in the cities of Lansing and
Springfield, Michigan. In Lansing, the capital city of Michigan -
SkyZhone's all-MIMO design enabled ACD.net to economically deploy a
multi-use network serving public safety services using 4.9GHz and
high-bandwidth consumer Wi-Fi for video, voice and data in the 2.4GHz
band. In neighboring Springfield, ACD.net is utilizing the system to
delivery Internet access at subsidized rates for residents in a 6
square mile portion of the city.
Zhone has taken Wi-Fi to a new level of performance and capability,
said Kevin Schoen, CEO of ACD.net. SkyZhone opened up key new market
opportunities in the public sector for us and renewed the viability of
Wi-Fi as a multimedia consumer service.
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