DragonWave AirPair Selected to Support Wireless Services in Europe

Source: Ottawa Business Journal
September 10, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada
 

Wireless networking solutions maker DragonWave Inc. has won two deals to supply its AirPair technology in Spain and France.

The Ottawa-based company announced that its AirPair wireless backhaul solution had been selected by Spanish telecommunications operator Consorcio de Telecomunicaciones Avanzadas S.A. (COTA) to support legacy Internet protocol (IP)-based video services as well as new data and voice services for subscribers in the Murcia region in the south of Spain.

DragonWave has deployed 31 high-capacity backhaul links across COTA's network to support the Spanish company's new IP-based offerings such as regional FM radio and surveillance video services, as well as to enable the company to resell unused network capacity to local service providers in Murcia.

"AirPair enables COTA to capitalize on IP convergence. Our solution provides COTA with a powerful, flexible and resilient foundation to cost-effectively support any current or future service," said Alan Solheim, DragonWave's vice-president of product management. "COTA's deployment of AirPair is a new win for our solution in Spain. It strengthens our position as a supplier to the regional network operator."

The Spanish company said it has saved approximately 67 per cent in monthly recurring costs and improved application performance by 70 per cent by using DragonWave's technology.

In a separate statement, DragonWave said French network integrator Prosystel SAS had chosen AirPair to enable WiMAX-based data and voice services in rural southwestern France.

Prosystel, which specializes in the design of access and transport networks for regional operators and local governments, is using AirPair to increase wireless Internet speed for rural parts of the Haute-Garonne department, to 200 megabits per second from just 128 or 512 kilobits per second.

"Our solution will help Prosystel SAS and the local general council to bring high-bandwidth connectivity at reasonable costs for the first time to this rural part of the department," said Mr. Solheim.