Terabeam climbs the great wall

Fiber Optics Weekly Update, July 18, 2003

Great Wall Broadband Network Service Co. Ltd. (GWBN), the leading broadband Internet service provider in China, has announced in Shanghai that it will extend its broadband network in 15 cities throughout China with wireless systems from Terabeam.

At a news conference in Shanghai, GWBN Vice General Manager Kevin Ren announced that his company will accelerate the construction of its network for broadband Internet services with approximately 250 Terabeam links in the next two years. Terms were not disclosed. GWBN will use Terabeam's free space optics systems to expand its broadband Internet networks and applications. GWBN has purchased its first free space optics (FSO) links for wireless communication using the Terabeam's Elliptica. With Terabeam's systems, GWBN can promptly provide reliable broadband services to large and medium size businesses and large residential communities, especially in those areas where fiber optic cabling is difficult or expensive to lay. The first several Terabeam links for GWBN are in Shanghai and the Chongqing metropolitan area, one of the most prominent and fastest growing district cities in China. GWBN will use Terabeam's initial wireless links to extend its metropolitan area network across the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers.