WAVE WIRELESS SHIPS SPEEDLAN 9000 BROADBAND WIRELESS ROUTERS.

Wave Wireless Networking, a division of SPEEDCOM Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWC), a provider of broadband wireless solutions, has announced that it is now shipping SPEEDLAN 9000 products. Orders from channel distributors are currently being filled and pre-production orders have been shipped.

SPEEDLAN 9000 is Wave Wireless' first product line to provide flexible building-to-building, multipoint, and mesh configuration options in a single broadband wireless platform.

"Our new, versatile, SPEEDLAN 9000 series is designed to provide a reliable, flexible, and cost-effective communication solution to a host of customers," stated Patrick Pacifico, vice president of marketing and product management for Wave Wireless. "The 9000 takes broadband wireless products to a new level with features that are important to tech savvy buyers looking for the highest level of performance and flexibility."

Organizations deploying broadband wireless base stations, either as part of a campus network or a metropolitan area network, are often challenged with shadows in their network. These holes in the coverage area, caused when obstructions such as groves of trees, hills, or large buildings block the wireless signal, make it difficult to provide ubiquitous coverage for a wireless metropolitan area network.

Mesh routing technology in SPEEDLAN 9000 helps customers already using MMDS, LMDS, or unlicensed base stations solve this problem. With SPEEDLAN 9000, broadband service providers can increase their wireless coverage area, extend their wireless infrastructure to more customers than ever before, and generate revenue from customers that are unreachable today.

With mesh technology, localized deployments in a campus, business park, apartment complex, or residential neighborhood are easier than ever. Unlike base station or access point products, no line-of-sight analysis is needed to determine if the building can "see" back to a base station. If a building can "see" any other building already on the mesh network, it is ready to be connected. Each new building added to a mesh network expands the customer's ability to connect even more buildings, scaling up to 100 buildings per channel.

Using a star topology, users can connect buildings up to 25 miles apart at Ethernet LAN speeds. With less than a day's work, users can eliminate leased line charges, increase connectivity speed and productivity, and take control over their building-to-building communications. With a SPEEDLAN 9000 base station, users can connect up to 100 remote buildings to a central location. Schools, hospitals, and banks can benefit by increasing connection speed between buildings and reducing or even eliminating leased line fees.

With a unique combination of configuration options, web-based management, and performance, SPEEDLAN 9000 provides the flexibility, scalability, and rapid return on investment network managers require. Whether connecting two buildings across a parking lot or deploying a complex wireless metropolitan area network, SPEEDLAN 9000 provides the features needed in a single affordable package.

SPEEDLAN 9000 products are available in a variety of models. SPEEDLAN 9101 and 9104 are mesh-only products used to deploy a mesh network. SPEEDLAN 9102 and 9103 can be configured as a simple building-to-building backbone, a point-to-multipoint star topology or as a self-healing mesh topology.