City of Burbank, California Deploys Proxim Infrastructure For Scalable Municipal Wireless Network; 'Media Capital of the World' Served by Metro Wi-Fi Network and High-Speed Connections for Mission-Critical City Communications

Business Wire, Nov 16, 2005

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Proxim Wireless Corporation, a global provider of broadband wireless equipment and wholly owned subsidiary of Terabeam, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRBM), today announced that the City of Burbank, California has constructed a municipal wireless network using Proxim equipment for public access, private access, outdoor distribution and high-capacity backhaul. In addition to expanding the communications capabilities of municipal workers and citizens, the network has also been designed for rapid scalability to meet future needs and opportunities. This design has been facilitated by the distinctive breadth of the Proxim product portfolio, providing a wide spectrum of networking capabilities - from Wi-Fi to wireless Gigabit Ethernet - serving the diverse needs of governments, enterprises and service providers.

Municipalities throughout the U.S. have been forced to reconcile growing technological demands with leaner budgets. As they explore the possibilities of wireless networks to bridge the digital divide, they may find it challenging to develop the business case. Perry Jarvis, Burbank's Network Operations Manager, discovered that leveraging wireless technology throughout the communications network enabled the city to slash traditional expenses and funnel a portion of the savings to investment in more productive infrastructure to offer services to the public and meet mission-critical needs of city departments.

Burbank is a city of approximately 106,000 residents with an area of 18 square miles situated in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. It houses the studios of several major U.S. entertainment companies as well as over 700 entertainment production support facilities, giving rise to its informal name as the "Media Capital of the World," and also indicating that it is a community which uses information and communication technology heavily.

Jarvis and his team worked with M-Gravity, LLC, a Torrance, California-based specialist in wireless technology solutions, to design, configure, and install the City's wireless network. The network design includes:

--A metro Wi-Fi network covering approximately one square mile in downtown Burbank. Citizens can access the Internet at broadband speeds with wireless-enabled notebook computers or handheld devices connecting to Wi-Fi access points mounted on street lamps. The access points hand the traffic off to a point-to-multipoint distribution system based on Proxim's Tsunami(TM) MP.11 pre-WiMAX system. All traffic is aggregated and backhauled by a Tsunami GX.90 point-to-point link. Coverage of the network can be dramatically increased by adding more access points as needed.

--Broadband wireless access connecting municipal buildings to the city's large fiber optic backbone. The city had been leasing 20 T1s for this connectivity at a considerable annual cost. Replacing these links with Proxim's Tsunami point-to-point products allowed the city to dramatically increase bandwidth, from 1.5 Mbps for the T1 line to 20 Mbps for the Tsunami. The one-time cost of a Tsunami link was comparable to the annual expense for the T1; the future cost avoided could be reinvested elsewhere by the city.

--Proxim's ORiNOCO(R) Wi-Fi access points in municipal buildings throughout the city, used to provide visitors with access to the Internet.

"We love Proxim equipment because it is easy to configure, easy to support and does what it's supposed to do," said Jarvis. "We have evaluated numerous competitors for broadband wireless networking products, and no one else comes close. We have prepared the network to scale when the time comes, and Proxim's comprehensive product portfolio holds the promise of even higher capacity solutions as our needs grow."

"Proxim has extensive experience in serving the needs of municipal governments around the globe, because we are capable of supplying all segments of the wireless network including access, last mile, backhaul and network management," said Rick Hartley, Proxim's Vice President of Sales for the Western U.S. "We look forward to working with Perry and his team as they enhance their communications network to meet the needs of a very technologically savvy community."

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Proxim Wireless Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Terabeam, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRBM). Proxim Wireless is a global leader in providing Wi-Fi and other broadband wireless solutions to meet the performance, scalability, and security requirements of enterprises, government, and service providers. Information about Proxim and its products and support can be found at http://www.proxim.com.

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