EngineX Networks Wins System Engineering Order for Corn Dev's M/Ergy High-Speed Wireless Internet System - Com Dev Wireless - Brief Article

Wireless Internet, August, 2001

EngineX Networks has secured a contract from Com Dev Wireless, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cambridge, Ontario-based Com Dev International to perform the final stage of system engineering for the central office subsystem of Com Dev's M/Ergy high-speed wireless system.

The M/Ergy network, currently in alpha field trials in San Luis Obispo on California's Central Coast, wirelessly delivers data at speeds comparable to current cable and DSL modems and supports full mobility at speeds up to 120 km per hour (75 miles per hour).

EngineX Networks is a professional services firm that designs and implements converged, next-generation public networks, and the support systems required to operate and manage them. The company provides customers single-network capabilities for data, voice, and video services over wireless, optical, and packet networks, reducing the time it takes to bring new, innovative services to market.

M/Ergy is a packet-switched data system that enables service providers to offer customers high-speed wireless Internet access, including full mobility and voice-over IP capability, at a fraction of the cost of providing cable modem or DSL service. Com Dev Wireless designs and manufactures wireless systems and subsystems for major global wireless, cellular telephone, and PCS system vendors worldwide.

Utilizing Qualcomm's HDR technology, M/Ergy provides full high-speed wireless modem support to laptop and desktop computers at burst data rates up to 2.45 Mbps.

System engineering work for Corn Dev's M/Ergy broadband wireless Internet system will be performed as part of EngineX Networks' Pilot suite of integrated services, which provide complete engineering, equipment integration, and testing prior to shipping finished configurations of equipment to service providers. The Pilot solution, with its emphasis on supply chain optimization, can shrink the network implementation phase to as little as a fifth of the normal time.