Adelphia to Trial Ensemble Communications' Fiberless System; Largest LMDS B Band Licensee Chooses Market-Leading BWA System for Field Testing.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 2000 Ensemble Communications Inc., a supplier of next-generation broadband wireless See wireless broadband. access (BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) High-speed wireless access. Typically refers to wireless last mile access to the Internet. See WiMAX and broadband. ) equipment, today announced that Adelphia Business Solutions will trial its Fiberless(TM) point-to-multipoint BWA system in several Pennsylvania and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of markets beginning in April. Adelphia, a national integrated communications provider, owns the most LMDS (Local Multipoint Distribution Service) A digital wireless transmission system that works in the 28 GHz range in the U.S. and 24-40 GHz overseas. It requires line of sight between transmitter and receiving antenna, which can be from one to four miles apart B band licenses in the U.S. The trials are a strategic step in Adelphia's plan to deploy broadband wireless technology throughout its national fiber optic network, thereby extending services to off-net customers and multi-tenant buildings cost effectively. Fueled by Ensemble's patented Adaptix(TM) technology, which represents a substantial breakthrough in terms of speed and flexibility, Fiberless allows carriers to increase revenues by a factor of six or more while using less equipment than competing systems. Consisting of Adaptive Time Division Duplexing, Adaptive Time Division Multiple Access, and Adaptive Modulation, Adaptix was developed by Ensemble to enable the flexible delivery of broadband, packet-based services to end users in a way that best optimizes the use of both equipment and frequency resources. Fiberless consists of the Fiberless 16000 Base Station, Fiberless 300 Customer Premise Equipment (CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) Communications equipment that resides on the customer's premises. CPE - Customer Premises Equipment ) and the Fiberless Management System (FMS FMS - Flexible Manufacturing System (factory automation). ). It has been engineered from the ground up, without reliance on legacy approaches, to help solve the unique challenges of the BWA market. A global platform, Fiberless is designed to serve BWA carriers with frequency licenses ranging from 10 to 45 GHz, and to seamlessly interconnect with IP, ATM and TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. backhaul architectures. About Adelphia Business Solutions Adelphia Business Solutions (Nasdaq:ABIZ), a majority owned subsidiary of Adelphia Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:ADLAC), provides integrated communication services to business customers over its state-of-the-art fiber optic network. By the end of 2001, Adelphia Business Solutions will serve approximately 200 cities throughout the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. over its fully redundant, 33,000-mile local and long haul Long distance. Long haul implies traversing a state or a country. Contrast with short haul. fiber optic network. This network serves as the backbone for the company's full line of communication service offerings, including local and long distance voice, messaging, high-speed data and Internet services. For more information about Adelphia Business Solutions, visit the company's Web site at http://www.adelphia-abs.com. Certain statements in this release are or may be forward-looking statements that are subject to material risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties associated with the Company's business, which include among others, competitive developments, risks associated with the Company's growth and financings, the development of the Company's markets, regulatory risks, dependence on its customers and their spending patterns and other risks which are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additional information of factors that may affect the business and financial results of Adelphia Business Solutions can be found in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the prospectus under Registration Statement 333-11142 (formerly 333-88927), under the caption "Risk Factors." About Ensemble Communications Ensemble Communications, headquartered in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , designs, manufactures and markets point-to-multipoint wireless systems for Local Multipoint Distribution Services (LMDS) and other Broadband Wireless Access markets worldwide. Founded in 1997, the company is led by industry veterans with proven successes designing and deploying wireless, telecom and datacom systems. Ensemble sells its Fiberless(TM) system directly to BWA carriers and through OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners with field trials of the product now under way. Containing Ensemble's patented Adaptix(TM) technology, Fiberless(TM) is the most advanced BWA solution on the market today and is the first capable of extending fiber cost effectively to deliver broadband services to business customers including both traditional telecom services and market-leading, differentiated offerings such as instantaneous asymmetry and bandwidth-on-demand services, VPNs and VOIP (Voice Over IP) A digital telephone service that uses the public Internet as well as private backbones instead of the traditional telephone network. Many companies, including Vonage, 8x8 and AT&T (CallVantage), typically offer calling within the country for a . For more information about Ensemble or the Fiberless product, please visit the company's Web site at www.ensemblecom.com. Note to Editors: Ensemble Communications, Fiberless and Adaptix are trademarks of Ensemble Communications Inc. |
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