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SkyPilot Picked By Costa Del Sol For Rollout
By DAVID SIMS
TMCnet CRM Alert Columnist
SkyPilot Networks, a provider of carrier-class broadband wireless systems, has announced that Costa del Sol Online SL, a reseller and network operator based in Malaga, Spain, has selected SkyPilot equipment to roll out advanced wireless voice, data and Internet access services across Western Europe.
CDSO's network operator subsidiary, Bamboo Telecom, is deploying SkyPilot equipment to a large rural subscriber base in Malaga, Spain to deliver VoIP and Internet access services. CDSO is initially reselling this equipment to network operators in other regions of Spain and Holland in preparation for what company officials term "an aggressive expansion plan" into new territory.
"The demand for carrier-grade wireless broadband services in Western Europe is exploding," said CDSO's chief technical officer Alain Duzant. "But in order to meet this demand, network operators and service providers require an extremely reliable and highly cost-effective wireless network infrastructure that supports a broad range of high-performance frequency bands and mesh architecture for failover and load balancing.
With WiMAX showing signs of maturing, any system must also be capable of making a simple migration to these new standards, which was another factor in choosing SkyPilot.
When it comes to wireless broadband Europe's now playing catch-up. The Wall Street Journal reports that wireless broadband offers from Verizon Wireless and Sprint, specifically BroadbandAccess and Sprint's Mobile Broadband use EV-DO, which stands for Evolution-Data Only, which the Journal calls "a revolutionary development."
So if your laptop or smart phone has EV-DO, "you can now get enough speed on a wireless connection to do everything you would do with a fast Internet connection at your desk -- stream video, download large Web sites, open large e-mail attachments."
This has, "for the first time in years, given the U.S. the edge over Europe in cellular wireless data networks," the Journal says: "Actual speeds on the EV-DO networks tend to be 600-700 kilobits a second, which is double or triple the actual speeds of the fastest widely deployed cell phone networks in Europe. Even the lowest speed the U.S. companies promise, 400 kbps, is faster than the maximum speed of today's common European systems."
SkyPilot's product family includes the SkyGateway, a carrier-class base station that connects the wireless mesh infrastructure to the Internet. Unlike traditional base stations, the SkyGateway provides scalable capacity, load balancing, self-healing failover, and expandable coverage with multiple hops to subscribers.
SkyPilot's president and CEO, Bob Machlin says "wireless broadband services are sorely needed in the numerous rural areas of Spain and the broader Western European marketplace.
David Sims is contributing editor for TMCnet. For more articles please visit David Sims' columnist page.
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