BreezeCOM Penetrates Japanese Market with a Multi-Million Dollar Order from SpeedNet.Business Editors TEL AVIV, Israel & CARLSBAD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- April 26, 2001 ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. to Deploy BreezeACCESS for Japanese Residential Users BreezeCOM (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BRZE), the world leader in the design and manufacture of high-speed wireless access solutions, announced today that it has received an initial order of twenty thousand subscriber units from Japanese Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , SpeedNet Corporation ("SpeedNet"). Operating through BreezeCOM's Japanese distributor CTCSP, SpeedNet is set to become the world's largest wireless ISP. Using BreezeCOM's BreezeACCESS II wireless access solution, SpeedNet plans to offer high-speed wireless Internet services to Japanese residential users, with initial installations scheduled for Tokyo, Saitama, Kanagawa and Chiba. This wide distribution heralds the introduction and establishment of the fixed wireless access (FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) See fixed wireless. ) market in Japan. SpeedNet is a joint venture between Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO TEPCO Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Japan) ), Softbank and Microsoft. Leveraging on TEPCO's existing fibre optic backbone and content provided by Softbank and Microsoft, SpeedNet is set to offer a variety of high-speed Internet services. BreezeCOM provides the last mile broadband solution, enabling access services to residential users beyond the reach of wireline broadband technologies. By deploying BreezeACCESS Access Units on TEPCO's electricity poles, SpeedNet is able to supply Internet access to subscribers within the selected area. SpeedNet looks forward to commercial success, delivering "always-on" Internet services at prices competitive to alternative technologies, such as ADSL See DSL. ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line and cable modems. The SpeedNet order comes in the wake of extensive testing and comprehensive trials that included a pilot study of hundreds of subscribers in a residential area north west of Tokyo. The resulting customer satisfaction survey showed that 92 % of subscribers were satisfied with the wireless Internet service and the same number would subscribe to the service. BreezeACCESS II utilizes Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum) See spread spectrum. ) radio technology - an ideal solution for dense and highly populated environments. While providing unlimited capacity in terms of cell overlay and seamless integration between cells, FHSS does not require capacity planning or suffer from degradations in performance each time additional subscribers are added. In addition, FHSS is not susceptible to interference from other technologies operating in the same 2.4GHz ISM band, such as microwave ovens and medical equipment. About SpeedNet SpeedNet Corporation is a joint venture between TEPCO, one of Japan's ten major power companies, Softbank, and Microsoft. SpeedNet provides dedicated low cost, high speed Internet access based on an IP network, and using an integrated combination of optical fiber, metal and wireless technologies. About BreezeCOM BreezeCOM is the leading provider of broadband wireless access (BWA (Broadband Wireless Access) High-speed wireless access. Typically refers to wireless last mile access to the Internet. See WiMAX and broadband. ) solutions used by service providers and enterprises. Its products provide a wireless alternative to wired access solutions, such as DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary and cable modems, and facilitate indoor and outdoor, as well as fixed and mobile wireless LAN connectivity. BreezeCOM products are based on a packet switching point-to-multipoint wireless platform, optimized for high-speed Internet and intranet access. Core technologies include spread spectrum radio, digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). , modems, networking protocols and VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. . For more information on BreezeCOM, please visit www.breezecom.com. BreezeACCESS is a trademark of BreezeCOM, Inc. All other trade names are the properties of their respective owners. This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, general business conditions in the industry, changes in demand for products, the timing and cancellation of orders and other risks detailed from time to time in BreezeCOM's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including BreezeCOM's Form F-1. |
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