DragonWave Speeds up Chicago Network

Source: Ottawa Business Journal
November 05, 2007 - Ottawa, Canada
 

DragonWave Inc. has won a contract with Chicago-based Business Only Broadband to increase the speed of its wireless Internet network for business customers.

The wireless networking equipment provider will be supplying its customer with technology to increase the speeds of its primary, secondary and disaster-recovery connectivity services in Chicago to more than 300 megabits per second, with plans to expand into New York and other nearby markets as well.

"We believe our solution provides Business Only Broadband with a future-proofed strategy for ongoing growth in Chicago, New York and additional markets," said Alan Solheim, vice-president of product management at DragonWave. "The power, cost-effective flexibility and security of DragonWave are the tools that Business Only Broadband needs to serve fast-growing customers with changing bandwidth requirements and the need to protect mission-critical application traffic."

Business Only Broadband is Chicago's largest wireless broadband provider, with a network of 29 transmissions sites that are configured to protect and backup customers' Ethernet operations against failure.