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GigaBeam has received an order for five WiFiber links from MetroNext, a next generation wireless service provider serving major metropolitan areas in the northeastern region of the U.S.

 

In addition to driving additional revenues and earnings from the projected growth of MetroNext’s network, the Company expects to create next-generation Wireless Local Exchange Carriers (WiLECs) around the world.

 

MetroNext is using the WiFiber links as key component of the City of Boston’s wireless initiative WiFi pilot project in Roxbury. Several companies are participating with GigaBeam and MetroNext in the pilot project including Cisco Systems (News - Alert), BelAir Networks, AboveNet, Galaxy Internet Services, and Airpath Wireless.

 

“We are very pleased to announce that GigaBeam has now established its first major presence in the U.S. Northeast one of the most densely populated and economically active regions in the world,” said Louis Slaughter, chairman and chief executive officer of GigaBeam in a statement.

 

Slaughter said that they are also looking forward to working with MetroNext as the City of Boston moves to develop one of the most advanced municipal wireless networks in the world. GigaBeam anticipates there will also be additional bandwidth capacity on their links to support other network requirements such as administrative, security, monitoring, large file transfer and storage.

 

The company points out that this pilot project will demonstrate the feasibility of a city wide wholesale network that is open to any Internet service provider, thereby providing wireless access to consumers and businesses in the Boston metro area.

 

Utilizing GigaBeam’s ultra high-speed radio equipment, MetroNext is providing the network’s Internet backhaul and high-speed network backbone connections to facilitate the transmittal of Internet traffic for the City of Boston’s pilot program.

 

The GigaBeam WiFiber links will connect WiFi (News - Alert) access nodes located throughout the city’s pilot area to a central fiber hub at a Point-Of-Presence (“POP”) in downtown Boston. Leveraging this network architecture, the city can rapidly deploy a network that is more economical as it virtually eliminates the need for new terrestrial fiber, which may not be readily available, is more expensive and is time consuming to deploy.

 

“GigaBeam’s revolutionary wireless transport technology, coupled with the large blocks of frequency spectrum pioneered by GigaBeam’s founders, for the first time enables a true ubiquitous ultra high speed wireless deployment across a metropolitan area,” said Tom Wetmore, founder and chief executive officer of MetroNext.

 

He continued: “This pilot demonstration is the first step in the deployment of a citywide real high-speed wireless network. We see a significant number of follow on orders for GigaBeam as we roll out similar deployments in Boston and across other cities in the region.”

 

Gigabeam also notes that from 2005-2006 the number of cities setting up municipal wireless networks virtually doubled to almost 200. Some are public and either free or low cost while others are strictly for municipal employee use. The U.S. is currently 16th in the world in broadband penetration, which shows the enormous ongoing potential for GigaBeam’s WiFiber products and solutions.

 

 

GigaBeam made news last week for receiving purchase orders for 24 additional WiFiber links from One Velocity, a major wireless telecom provider for the Western United States.

 

 

 

 

 

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