AirFiber Announces Trial with Teligent to Test High-Bandwidth Wireless Optical Network; Teligent Commences Trial Testing of AirFiber's OptiMesh Wireless Optical Networking Equipment.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000 AirFiber, Inc., a wireless optical telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. equipment provider, today announced a product trial of AirFiber's OptiMesh(TM) network by Teligent (Nasdaq: TGNT), a global leader in broadband communications. Teligent is evaluating the OptiMesh equipment for providing carrier grade, reliable, high-bandwidth services to customers in campus environments. AirFiber's OptiMesh network is based on wireless optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. technology, which delivers high-bandwidth over the air using invisible eye-safe beams of light. The network's short-link "mesh Refers to an interconnect architecture that cross- connects several devices. See mesh network, wireless mesh network and switch fabric. (character) mesh - The INTERCAL name for hash. " architecture and redundant features provide carrier-grade reliability of 99.999% in even the most severe weather conditions. "This product trial with Teligent demonstrates that wireless optical networking is an important tool in a local exchange carrier's high-bandwidth tool kit that is complementary to the other last mile technologies carriers use today," said Jim Dunn, chief executive officer of AirFiber. "In our view, Teligent is an ideal partner because they already have a focus on broadband, fixed-wireless services and expertise in establishing high bandwidth access networks in urban areas across the country and in Europe, Asia and South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. ." AirFiber and Teligent are currently testing the OptiMesh equipment in Washington, D.C. About AirFiber, Inc. San Diego-based AirFiber is a telecommunications equipment supplier of wireless optical networks that provide high-bandwidth access to urban buildings for voice, data and multimedia services. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , OptiMesh, is a reliable, quickly deployed and cost-effective access solution for carriers worldwide. Founded in 1998, AirFiber is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. . For more information, visit the AirFiber Web site at http://www.airfiber.com. |
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