Wirelessguys green technology offers viable solution to rural clients
CUSTOMER:
For years, a local book publishing company located in the rural hills of Santa Paula, CA was plagued with little to no cell phone or television reception and only dial-up internet service available to them.
According to the owner, Mike, when his friends bragged about their DSL service, signed up with a company only to find out that it was not available in his remote location. His next endeavor was satellite television, later followed by satellite internet when upload/download capabilities became available. Although satellite service is often spotty and inherently affected by weather conditions with a limited amount of throughput, it was still faster than his current dial-up scenario. Business class dishes were installed on his property but Mike soon found that latency issues made satellite internet service problematic. His business requires the transfer of large files overseas for printing. The transfers often took up to ten hours due to dropped signals so it was not only time consuming but also very frustrating. Mike limped along with satellite coverage for ten years with his satellite connection and then finally began a comprehensive search for a viable alternative. A representative from Cisco Systems referred him to CEO, Steven Williams at WirelessGuys. He said this is the guy to contact for your complex wireless needs; they are an innovative wireless solutions provider based in Moorpark, CA and are the go to company for wireless challenges like this.
Pepperdine University School of Law
Pepperdine University School of Law (Malibu, Calif.) first experimented with wireless network connectivity to allow students to access the Internet and the school network remotely from their laptops while working in the library.
“We installed nine wireless antennas on our first floor and began supporting about 200 students,” said David Dickens, network services manager, Pepperdine University School of Law School.
“At that time, wireless infrastructure was pretty new to the educational industry. We knew we wanted to enable our students to connect wirelessly for convenience and improved productivity, but we weren’t exactly certain how well received it would be and if it would prove mission critical to them.”
Gozoe Wireless, Marshall, TX
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“With sound expertise from WirelessGuys, they directed us from a very expensive platform that wouldn't work to an affordable platform that did work.” GoZoe Wireless, Marshall, TX
The Client:
From its home base in Marshall, TX, GoZoe Wireless uses new age wireless technology to "reach the unreachable", allowing hundreds of rural customers to enjoy high-speed broadband service. GoZoe Wireless has for the past decade installed 900 MHz subscriber units and access points throughout Marshall and the surrounding areas.
Until recently, the company used 100% Trango equipment. When rumors surfaced that Trango would be leaving the Point-to-Multipoint (PtMP) market, the company began using Canopy 900 MHz units with GPS sync and eventually converted to near 50/50% use of each product. According to GoZoe founder, Ashton Closner, Trango was "a little more bulletproof in the higher interference areas" and is "...more stable, has lower latency and is a little more resilient going through the foliage."
City of Ventura - Wireless infrastructure project
Background:
The City of Ventura Public Safety Department (PSD) was in the process of upgrading the connectivity between it’s various geographical sites. The PSD had an existing network of data T-1 line through their telephony provider, Pacific Bell.
The network consisted of 11 sites, including the connectivity between City Hall and the PSD Headquarters. The PSD was proposing that all existing T-1 telephony equipment and connections be upgraded at a proposed cost of approximately $90,000.00 plus. This did not include the recurring T-1 cost that would continue at $2,000 per month or $24,000.00 annually. The proposed project at a cost of $114,000.00 for the fiscal year was submitted to the City Council and approved.
Venture Technologies Group, LLC
BUSINESS CHALLENGE:
From its home base in Los Angeles, CA, telecommunications company, Venture Technologies Group, LLC, owns and operates a variety of television stations nationwide. This TV broadcaster is able to keep its overhead low by using unlicensed 5.8 GHz radios, instead of the more common licensed analog microwave radios used by most broadcasters, to send program video from it’s studios to it’s transmitters.
During the recent transition to DTV, Venture Technologies Group was approved for and built a digital station on Mt. Wilson, approximately 20 miles from its Wilshire studio. The company then faced the task of getting a signal to the Mt. Wilson transmitter. According to Daniel Bissett, Director of Engineering for Ventura Technologies Group, the Mt. Wilson station is the same distance from the studio as one of their other stations located on Mt. Harvard and only 1.5 miles to the side of the Mt. Harvard station. Because the company had what seemed like a reasonably good 5.8 GHz link between the studio and Mt. Harvard, the assumption was that the same type of equipment used for the Mt. Harvard link would work for the Mt. Wilson link as well. This assumption proved incorrect. Bissett stated that the 5.8 GHz link to the Mt. Harvard station has a fairly high bandwidth but there were issues with its alternating and varying latency, resulting from high local RF noise levels, that made the link unsuitable for sending actual video over it. At Mt. Wilson, the RF noise levels were so high, that the available bandwidth was reduced to almost nothing. Links to this site proved to be useless.
