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The University of La Punta in San Luis, Argentina, has picked Wavion’s WBS-2400 base stations for a WiFi deployment.

 

The base stations will deliver high-speed wireless Internet not only to the university’s campus, but also to the broader town and province. According to Wavion officials, these base stations provide extended range and throughput connectivity for standards-based WiFi (News - Alert) clients, such as those embedded in laptop computers.

 

Officials pointed out that Wavion’s WiFi solution requires one third fewer units than other competing access points (APs) to cover the same area.

 

Alicia Bañuelos, La Punta University Rector and San Luis Minister of Development, said that this is the first deployment in Argentina where Internet connectivity is provided for town-wide coverage.

 

“We believe that this project will foster economic development and tourism in the province and will help close the digital divide by enabling the children in the province to access the Internet at school and at their homes,” she said.

 

Ariel Scaliter, CEO of Xiden Networking, the System Integrator of the project, is hoping that this project will serve as a role model for other provinces in Argentina in providing Internet connectivity to their rural communities.

 

“We are proud to be selected by the San Luis province for their pioneering project in Argentina and honored in taking part in their vision and making it a reality,” said Eran Kaplan, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Wavion.

 

He also said that company’s performance in terms of range, throughput, and indoor penetration create a value proposition for wide-area broadband coverage and is critical to the success of this project.

 

Yoqne’am, Israel based Wavion claims to be transforming the metro Wi-Fi and rural markets with a new category of spatially adaptive base stations. According to the company, its digital beamforming and SDMA technologies resolve the performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing large scale metro and rural deployments.

 

 

 

 

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