BeamReach Announces Agreements with Proxim, Mediatrix, and Filanet; BeamSphere Partner Program Extends BeamReach Technology to Business and Residential Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2002 Booth 32134 ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2002 BeamReach Networks, the leading provider of broadband wireless See wireless broadband. access systems based on adaptive beamforming technology, announced that it has established product agreements with three industry-leading vendors: Proxim Corporation, Mediatrix, and Filanet. The three companies are joining BeamReach's newly inaugurated BeamSphere Partner Program, which has been established to facilitate development and interoperability of products and services which are complementary to the BeamPlex system, and which will expand the applications available to business and residential subscribers. Proxim provides localized wireless LAN solutions and residential 802.11 products; Filanet provides advanced security solutions for managed IP services; and Mediatrix provides voice over IP (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 ) solutions. "These three companies -- Proxim, Mediatrix, and Filanet -- are each leaders in their fields and represent best-in-class solutions," said Bob Kelsch, BeamReach CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are very pleased to have established these relationships, which will certainly facilitate the delivery of valuable, end-to-end solutions for users of our system." Proxim has a very broad range of residential and small office/home office See SOHO. products that enable sharing of Internet connections, files, and printers. These products extend the functionality of BeamReach subscriber equipment by allowing wireless network connections within buildings. Through the use of Proxim's 802.11 products, mobility is enabled for untethered Unattached to any data or power source by wire or fiber; in other words: wireless. Contrast with tethered. Internet access throughout the subscriber's residence or business location. Mediatrix is a leader in the VOIP field with its network-edge solutions for the residential and business telephony marketplaces. Together with Mediatrix's broad product line of VOIP gateways, integrated access devices, and IP communications servers, BeamReach will be able to provide high-quality telephony solutions to its customers. Filanet offers solutions for managed IP services delivery to small-to-medium businesses and telecommuter A person who telecommutes. See telecommuting. customers. The solution consists of a centralized web-based management platform, service provisioning portal, and an innovative line of cost-effective service appliances, the InterJak platform. Residing in each small office, the InterJak delivers Internet connectivity, security services, and wireless security services across a range of cost-effective appliances. The InterJak integrates an ICSA-certified firewall, intrusion detection, site-to-site and remote access VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. , advanced user authentication and additional IT services. BeamReach's BeamPlex system incorporates the most advanced broadband wireless access technology to appear in the marketplace, representing the best opportunity service providers have ever had to successfully deliver broadband wireless services. The BeamPlex innovation incorporates BeamReach's patented Adaptive MultiBeam OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) A digital transmission technique that uses a large number of carriers spaced apart at slightly different frequencies. technology -- the seamless integration of adaptive beamforming, frequency diversity, and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing See FDM. (communications) frequency division multiplexing - (FDM) The simultaneous transmission of multiple separate signals through a shared medium (such as a wire, optical fibre, or light beam) by modulating, at the transmitter, the separate signals into separable (OFDM). This 4th-generation technology concurrently delivers more than a 10 times improvement in spectral efficiency and up to a 16 times improvement in cell coverage area over 3rd-generation wireless technologies while maintaining subscriber data rates in excess of 1.5 Mbps. About BeamReach Networks BeamReach is the leading provider of broadband wireless access systems based on adaptive beamforming technology. BeamReach's award-winning technology combines the capabilities of adaptive antenna arrays with spectral and spatial processing to offer service providers tremendous improvements in coverage and capacity for cost-effective, wide-scale deployment of broadband wireless networks. BeamReach systems operate in the MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service or Microwave Multipoint Distribution Service) A digital wireless transmission system that works in the 2.2-2.4 GHz range. and WCS See Windows CardSpace. bands and will later be available for 3.5 GHz and other bands. For more information, please visit www.beamreachnetworks.com. |
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