Year in Review 2006

With the new Nexus PRO series of radios that were launched in 2006, deployments got more interesting. The capabilities of the new radios allow for some ingenious applications, like a moving link over open sea, merging a Wi-Fi network for data connectivity into a 911 Dispatch Center network and providing wireless telephony to a remote mountainous area with no existing telephones.

Matteson police officers can now access critical information,
receive updates and file reports all on the move thanks to a mobile network
using smartBridges access points

Without features like dual radios, 802.11i based security and COFDM technology, the move into such new, challenging markets in industries and enterprises and territories like Africa would not be possible. In this story, we recount some of the more momentous ones.

The Matteson City 911 Dispatch Center, near Chicago, decided on smartBridges' access points for its reliability, dependability and most importantly, its ability to provide dynamic IP addressing (DHCP) so a separate DHCP server would not be needed.

Netpage Solutions from The Gambia, the tiniest nation in Africa, secured an extensive wireless network to bring broadband connectivity to people and businesses in and around the capital city of Banjul.

In Bhutan, SamdenTech, with the help of the Canadian philanthropic body the IDRC (International Development Research Centre), has built a network for voice telephony in remote mountainous villages in Bhutan where nary a telephone wire was ever laid.

A one-of-a-kind deployment across open sea connects the moored supply boat to an oil rig

While AMD, in a one-of-a-kind deployment, installed radios on a moving supply boat and stationary oil rig to create a link spanning across the open sea. The link allows staff on the boat and oil rig to communicate with each other and share the VSAT Internet connection available on the oil rig.

Click here to read more about these customers' success stories.