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Extricom’s (News - Alert) Interference-Free Enterprise Wireless LAN System will be incorporated into BT's wireless and mobility convergence solutions.

 

Bishop's Stortford College in Hertfordshire is the first customer, where BT iNET designed and deployed a wireless network, using Extricom's Wireless LAN (WLAN) system at its core.

 

The next-generation wireless system covers pupil boarding houses located on the 130-acre campus of the independent school. The network provides complete coverage using multiple Wi-Fi channel blankets spanning the site's buildings. This enables a fully converged deployment for carrying real time voice, data, and video.

 

BT iNET’s solution delivers seamless, handoff-free user mobility and guaranteed bandwidth, without any channel density or interference constraints.

 

According to Stephen Bacon, head of information technology at the College, they wanted to significantly extend their existing wireless provision and thus the new solution needed to be easy for them to deploy and manage, yet still attain the superior performance required by today's connected students.

 

“The BT/Extricom solution provided just that. Pupils and staff are now benefiting from a resilient, high-performance wireless infrastructure, which is also easy to manage. It has been a win-win solution for both user and administrator,” said Bacon in a statement to the press.

 

Neil Pemberton, managing director, BT iNet points out that organizations now adopt wireless technology as a pervasive, strategic asset. Pemberton believes by joining forces with Extricom, BT iNet is driving the availability of reliable wireless connectivity, which can support an ever-broadening set of uses, such as voice, ubiquitous data connectivity, location services, and even streaming video.

 

“Working together we will identify and leverage the right advanced technologies that will yield the type of infrastructure that can meet these heightened expectations,” said Pemberton.

 

Extricom's Interference-Free WLAN System boasts a fundamental shift in architecture, from "cell-planning" to a "channel blanket" layout. Eliminating the co-channel interference that plagues traditional WLAN systems, the system delivers seamless mobility, 'wire-like' connections, greatly increased capacity, and guaranteed levels of connectivity for all users. All this is achieved without the error-prone and expensive RF cell-planning of traditional solutions.

 

“VoIP’s disruptive effect in the telephony field is undeniable. The Extricom WLAN seeks to be equally disruptive in the enterprise WLAN arena, and voice over Wi-Fi is the trigger for such disruption,” said Gideon Rottem, CEO of Extricom.

 

“ Voice and location applications demand mobility, and this is the first system to bring total and seamless mobility to Wi-Fi, while also enhancing all other facets of performance such as coverage, capacity, and security, all of which are necessary for the enterprise wireless triple play,” concluded Rottem.

 

 

 

 

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