Wireless Online Improves MMDS Network Capacity as Much as Six Times - Brief Article

Wireless Internet, May, 2001

Wireless Online, a provider of smart wireless equipment, and Hybrid Networks announced that the two companies have demonstrated compatibility in joint field testing in the MMDS band. Wireless Online's smart PointBeam 2500 antenna technology promises a four to six times capacity increase compared to a 90 degree sector antenna. The testing also showed coverage improvement from the improvement in signal to noise due to antenna gain.

The field tests took place in the San Francisco Bay area between August and November 2000. To complete the test, Hybrid integrated its head end Series 2000 equipment with Wireless Online's PointBeam 2500 smart multibeam arrays. Hybrid also used its Wireless Broadband Router as part of the test, which was conducted in the 2.5 GHz to 2.7 GHz frequency range.

"We are committed to providing our customers with the best technology available and continue to explore the benefits of new technology in the MMDS area," said Michael Greenbaum, CEO of Hybrid Networks. "We look forward to working with Wireless Online to improve capacity and coverage, as well as reduce interference for our MMDS customers, thus helping them reduce buildout costs."

Wireless Online equipment achieves its impressive coverage and capacity gains by leveraging the company's spectral reuse and filtering technology (SeRFit) to address a major challenge facing broadband wireless carriers: interference.

By creating and focusing narrow beams of RF energy, Wireless Online can achieve greater spectrum efficiency by allowing operators to reuse frequencies many times within a network and to create a higher quality link, thus reducing transmission errors and increasing throughput. Wireless Online's equipment also improves coverage and line-of-sight performance, allowing more customers to be served.

Designed to enhance the performance of broadband wireless networks, Wireless Online's PointBeam smart platform is compatible with a wide range of frequencies, technologies, and protocols. In fact, the PointBeam family of products, which is based on the PointBeam smart platform, enables delivery of smart antenna systems from 0.8 GHz to 6.0 GHz, based on operator requirements. For example, Wireless Online's PointBeam 2400 and PointBeam 2500 products, ideal for fixed networks operating in the 2.3 GHz to 2.9GHz bands, including MMDS offerings, are based on the PointBeam smart equipment platform.