Deployment Further Validates Company’s Commercialization Strategy to Expand to Both Established and Emerging Economic Centers Around the World
GigaBeam Corporation (NASDAQ:GGBM), deploying WiFiber® “wireless fiber optics” technology to economic centers across the globe, announced today that it has received an order for one WiFiber link from a direct sale to a new customer in the United Kingdom, opening up a new market for the Company’s next generation products.
GigaBeam’s WiFiber technology is similar to terrestrial fiber in terms of speed and reliability. WiFiber has a substantial advantage over terrestrial fiber because it can be rapidly deployed and costs significantly less to deploy than terrestrial fiber. Terrestrial fiber can take months to deploy and also require significant regulatory and environmental approvals prior to installation.
“Europe represents a major market and revenue opportunity for GigaBeam and specifically in established economies such as the United Kingdom where wireless infrastructures represent an ideal solution for providing individuals and businesses with broadband Internet access,” said Louis Slaughter, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GigaBeam. “We are pleased with the progress we have made in these new markets based upon the frequency spectrum our founders pioneered along with the wireless technology we developed. We believe that in addition to follow on orders in these markets we will continue to open new and potentially lucrative markets in other countries around the world.”
GigaBeam WiFiber products operate in the 71-76 GHz and 81-86 GHz upper millimeter wave spectrum bands. The Federal Communications Commission and the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) and certain other countries have authorized this portion of the spectrum for licensed wireless commercial use.
About GigaBeam Corporation
GigaBeam’s WiFiber® product ushers in a new era of communications by allowing customers to bypass the restrictive telecom oligopoly and connect directly to any city’s fiber optics hub or Point-of-Presence (POP). The disruptive impact of an easily deployable, low cost alternative to fiber optics cables is difficult to overestimate, especially since WiFiber’s point-to-point high-speed units transmit data via the highest approved radio frequency at speeds equal to 641 T1 lines or 1000 DSL lines.
Current GigaBeam partners and customers include Google, Verizon, ING, Sprint, The Department of Defense, as well as several cities and universities such as San Francisco and Boston University. The Company has implemented strategy to expand into major metropolitan areas around the world.
GigaBeam’s management team, which pioneered rule making in the 70GHz and 80GHz spectrum, is fully committed to augmenting current revenues through a network of authorized dealers and resellers across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and Asia that have local expertise and established contacts. GigaBeam is a company with market disruptive wireless technology, a pioneering management team and a worldwide network dedicated to penetrating major metropolitan markets around the globe.
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