Vivato Wi-Fi Switches Score for Spokane Hoopfest; World's Largest Three-on-Three Basketball Tournament Chooses Vivato to Create 40-Block Wi-Fi Hot Zone.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2003 In what constitutes its most expansive deployment to date, Vivato, a wireless infrastructure company, today announced that Hoopfest, the largest three-on-three basketball tournament in the world, will use Vivato 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Switches to blanket the City of Spokane, Wash., with Wi-Fi during its 2003 event scheduled for June 28-29, 2003. Vivato will provide six of its flat panel outdoor Wi-Fi switches to Hoopfest, which will host over 6,200 teams on 400 basketball courts in Spokane city streets during the two-day event. Hoopfest is using Itronix Wi-Fi GoBook Q-100 PocketPCs to relay scores to a central, secure Web site from 30 locations among courts. Players and fans can register at www.spokanehoopfest.net in advance of the competition to receive real-time tournament scores on their mobile phones via SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM. (2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server. . As an added benefit, the hot zone created for Hoopfest will provide free Wi-Fi access throughout the 40-block area of downtown Spokane Downtown Spokane is the central business district in Spokane. Downtown Spokane's rough boundaries are I-90 to the south, Division St. to the east, Maple St. to the west, and the Spokane River to the north, although one could argue that downtown has extended north of the river. for the weekend. "The role of technology in producing an exciting, high-quality outdoor event the magnitude of Hoopfest is increasingly important," said Tom Heavey, technology manager for Hoopfest. "Vivato's Wi-Fi switches allow us to quickly deploy a wireless local area network that covers the whole of downtown Spokane." Vivato's unique phased array antenna and switching electronics are integrated into a single flat panel, which can support standard 802.11b Wi-Fi devices at a range of up to four kilometers outdoors. The six Vivato switches will be mounted on the rooftops of the KHQ KHQ Kansas Historical Quarterly TV station tower, The Spokane Club, the Spokesman-Review newspaper building and Spokane City Hall, with backhaul to the wired network provided by 180 Networks (www.go180.net). "The range of the Vivato Wi-Fi switch is amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. ," said Joel Hobson, technical services manager for the City of Spokane. "You can get a wireless connection virtually anywhere in downtown Spokane. The City of Spokane and its citizens have benefited greatly from partnerships with local technology firms such as Vivato and look forward to growing these relationships." "This is a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate the amazing range that Vivato's switches achieve outdoors," said Ken Biba, Vivato 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. , chairman and co-founder. "We are thrilled to participate in this great community event." About Vivato Vivato is the inventor INVENTOR. One who invents or finds out something. 2. The patent laws of the United States authorize a patent to be issued to the original inventor; if the invention is suggested by another, he is not the inventor within the meaning of those laws; but in that and first manufacturer of Wi-Fi switches for enterprises and service providers designed to enable high bandwidth Wi-Fi wireless networks everywhere: in the enterprise, across campuses and throughout metropolitan areas. Vivato is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden with a research and development center in Spokane, Wash. For more information, please visit www.vivato.net or call 415/495-1111. About Hoopfest Spokane Hoopfest Association is a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. and tax-exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code The Internal Revenue Code is the body of law that codifies all federal tax laws, including income, estate, gift, excise, alcohol, tobacco, and employment taxes. These laws constitute title 26 of the U.S. Code (26 U.S.C.A. § 1 et seq. . Hoopfest has brought basketball to the streets of downtown Spokane since 1990, and has grown to become the largest 3-on-3 street basketball tournament in the world with a record setting 6,200 plus teams expected in 2003. More information is available at www.spokanehoopfest.net or call 509/624-2414 x11. |
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