Australia’s leading WiMAX & broadband microwave technology distributor, Wi-MAN Pty Ltd, has been signed by Wavion Inc, of San Jose, as Master Distributor Asia/Pacific region. Managing Director of Wi-MAN, Paul Wallace commented “After five years of exhaustive searching around the world, we’ve finally found a WiFi solution that makes sense. Wavion’s best-in-class sensitivity along with it’s off-the scale ability to address multipath-fade, and it’s unprecedented range allow Wavion to offer the lowest cost per user-passed available on the market today. Suitable for campuses, hot zones, municipal Wifi and many other applications Wavion paves the way for scalable & manageable Wifi. This is the interruptive technology to the anticipated 802.16e interruptive technology”. “Also, Operational Costs will also be dramatically reduced through lowering the number of managed devices in a particular sample network”. “The release of Wavion’s WS410 is clearly great timing in light of recent announcements by the NSW & WA governments amongst others, to blanket huge areas of the population with Wifi. No other WiFi solution that we’ve ever seen could be expected to address the scale, robustness & manageability required by this scale of deployment”. Wavion solutions deliver unmatched economical and superior-performing Metro Wi-Fi networks for enhancing government, social, and commercial communications.

Why a Metro Wi-Fi Network?

Here are just a few of the valuable services that a local municipality can provide on its metro Wi-Fi network:

• First Responder / Public Safety - Access to critical data for fire-fighters, police, paramedics, disaster relief workers, and emergency-room video-conferencing for road side trauma care
• Municipal Operations - Cost-effective mobile voice and data communications for local government employees such as building inspectors and parking enforcement officers
• Video Surveillance and Highway Traffic Control and Monitoring
• Automated Utility Meter Reading and Remote Leak Detection
• Economic Development and Digital Divide
• Fixed and Portable Public Broadband Access
  

To provide these services municipalities are partnering with Internet providers, with the providers receiving the right to locate equipment on public property and offered other commercial incentives such as a license to sell advertising on the network.

Large corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies can also take advantage of metro Wi-Fi to provide ubiquitous connections across large campuses and in areas not normally covered by other networks.

Current Barriers to Metro Wi-Fi Deployment

Several factors are currently hampering the deployment of metro Wi-Fi networks:

• Limited Spectrum - The unlicensed spectrum is limited, thus posing a serious challenge to large-scale networks intended to serve hundreds or thousands of users and multiple bandwidth-intensive applications.
• High Interference - Interference in unlicensed spectrum is a growing concern. Millions of households and businesses have Wi-Fi gear and hundreds of thousands of access points are sold every month, thus crowding the spectrum more and more. Also, interfering signals from cordless phones, microwave ovens, garage door openers, Bluetooth and other devices can significantly limit the performance of Wi-Fi networks.
• Low Range - The range is limited, especially in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions.
• Poor Coverage Quality - Coverage is not uniform and plagued with many dead spots, especially in NLOS conditions.
• Low Penetration - Indoor penetration is limited. Overcoming this limitation requires a costly CPE installation which dramatically changes the deployment economics.
• Low Capacity - Poor and spotty coverage causes many users to operate at low transmission rates that degrade the shared capacity of the network. In addition, multi-hop mesh operation further degrades the capacity because of the need to share the bandwidth with the backhaul traffic.
• Limited Application Support - The limited capacity and multi-hop mesh operation limit the capabilities metro Wi-Fi networks to support bandwidth- intensive and jitter and latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP and Video.
• Poor Economics - Wi-Fi deployment and maintenance is costly, especially when a large number of access points are deployed per square mile to ensure adequate performance and coverage.

Wavion Breaks the Barriers

Wavion's breakthrough technology address all the quality and cost factors that have hampered the deployment of metro Wi-Fi up until now.

Wavion brings a new level of performance and scalability to metro Wi-Fi by:

• Better Use of the Spectrum - Quadrupling the capacity of the network, thus enabling future growth and bandwidth-intensive applications.
• Interference Resiliency - Reducing the susceptibility to interference and the level of self-interference to the network.
• Higher Range - Doubling the range thereby providing four times the coverage area.
  Better Coverage Quality - Providing more uniform coverage, with fewer dead spots especially in NLOS conditions.
• Better Penetration - Provides better indoor penetration, thus reducing significantly the need for costly CPE installations.
• Higher Capacity - Quadrupling the capacity on the access and mesh backhaul combined with dramatic improvement in NLOS conditions.
• Better Application Support - The higher capacity and reduced latency and jitter resulting by eliminating muti-hop operation enable supporting bandwidth- intensive and jitter and latency-sensitive applications such as VoIP and Video.
• Improved Economics - Improving the economics of metro-deployment by requiring much fewer access and backhaul points to cover the same area.

References:

www.itwire.com.au/content/view/4407/127/
www.wiman.com.au/
www.skypilot.com/
www.redlinecommunications.com/
www.dragonwaveinc.com/
www.netintact.com.au/
www.airaya.com/
www.wavionnetworks.com/

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Wi-MAN Pty Limited

Wi-MAN is a leading distributor of WiMAX based Broadband Wireless Access (BWA), voice compression solutions based on innovative, high performing technologies that enable the breaking of price-performance barriers that are particularly suitable for emerging, fast growing markets, and general fixed microwave access & backhaul systems Wi-MAN is also Master Distributor for Redline Communications of Markham, Canada, Master Distributor of Skypilot Networks Inc, of Santa Clara, USA. Sole Australian Distributor for Netintact’s class leading QoS solution, Dragonwave Inc of Ottawa, Canada & Airaya Inc, of Morgan Hill, USA. Wi-MAN was established to address the shortfall of unique skills required to design and support carrier-class microwave networks. Please visit us at www.wiman.com.au

Wavion, Inc

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 www.wavion.net.