iBand selects Allgon Microwave as supplier of microwave radios for wireless broadband network deployment

    /24-7PressRelease/ - GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN, March 19, 2007 - iBand is a European wireless broadband operator offering IEEE 802.20 iBurst solutions. iBand are in the process of deploying a wireless broadband network in Norway, starting off in the Oslo area. With the iBurst solution, iBand customers gets high performance, high speed, secure, mobile wireless access to corporate applications, email and web - at home, at work, in the client's office, even on the bus or ferry.

According to the settlement between Allgon Microwave and iBand Norway, Allgon Microwave will be the supplier of Ethernet microwave radio backhaul communication solutions to iBand. iBand will use both the medium capacity AMR Streamline platform (4-36 MBPS) as well as the high capacity AMR Transcend platform (50-100 MBPS) in the network.

"We received excellent references from colleagues in the market that Allgon Microwave has the most suitable portfolio and the best experience in building IP based Ethernet backhaul networks. By selecting Allgon Microwave products we will get the highest data throughput per dollar spent and as a result we minimize the risks of problems with data backhaul during our network rollout. Allgon Microwave has done it before with excellent results", states Jean-Francois Sant , CTO at iBand.

"By establishing this cooperation with iBand we have taken yet another step in the mobile wireless broadband and IP networks market. Now Allgon Microwave covers the major wireless broadband platform solutions throughout the globe. The iBurst technology has made a significant footprint in many countries and continents and the platform itself, based on IP, matches perfectly with our native Ethernet products. The high demands concerning i.e. extremely low latency proves that market actors like iBand fully appreciates the Allgon Microwave product performance capabilities with regards to throughput, latency and jitter", says Jörgen Pettersson, Sales Manager at Allgon Microwave

About Allgon Microwave and Advantech AMT Group
Advantech AMT is a world-class designer and manufacturer of leading-edge communication products for Satellite Ground Stations and Terrestrial Wireless Communications. The equipment is used by both commercial and government customers to implement multimedia broadcast and telecommunication network systems.
Allgon Microwave is part of the Terrestrial business unit. With offices in Canada, Europe and the USA, Advantech AMT provides global product support expertise. The main products designed and manufactured by the company are Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA); Block-Up Converters (BUCs); frequency converters; modulators, demodulators and modems; broadband data networking systems; antenna tracking control systems; satellite terminals; point-to-point microwave links and other related sub-systems. Advantech is an ISO-9001:2000 certified organization.

Allgon Microwave is an international company specializing in high quality point-to-point microwave radios and services, with two offices, one situated in Gothenburg (Sweden) and the second in Montreal (Canada). Allgon Microwave focuses on lowest cost of ownership and is a pioneer when it comes to Ethernet availability and throughput over the air. We pride ourselves as the only supplier of a 512 QAM radio. Allgon Microwave also offers SDH/SONET, PDH and Ethernet microwaves radios for both ETSI and ANSI standards. For our customers, this means seamless wire- less IP and voice transmission solutions with unique features, extremely flexible capacity, intuitive web based management and low network implementation costs.

To find out more about Allgon Microwave, please visit our website at www.AllgonMicrowave.com.

For any further questions please contact:
North America
Anthony Orlando
Vice-President Sales Americas
Tel. + 1 514 4200045
Fax + 1 514 420 0073
[email protected]

Europe
Jörgen Pettersson
Regional Sales Manager
[email protected]
Tel. + 46 31 771 7999
Fax + 46 31 771 7910

About iBand

iBand is Europe's first 4th generation (4G) full IP mobile broadband operator.

Established in 2003, iBand is Europe's first operator to obtain a mobile broadband licenses in Norway, Denmark and The Netherlands in 2005. In September 2006, iBand was Europe's first operator to launch commercial mobile broadband services based on the commercially proven iBurst technology (IEEE802.20 pre-selected and ANSI standard) in Norway.

iBand's commercial strategy is to deliver highly secure, high reliability, quality mobile broadband voice and data services direct to business customers and students and through wholesale arrangement, to online brands and Telecom service providers. Further information on iBand is available on request or you may visit www.iband.no .

Press contact: [email protected]
Copyright 2006 Allgon Microwave. All rights reserved.

Allgon Microwave is an innovative IP/Ethernet based microwave radio company providing software intense solutions. Allgon Microwave delivers its own digital P-t-P microwave radio products in the 7-38 GHz frequency bands, with value-added features that set market standards. The Allgon Microwave unique "true Ethernet" solutions feature Flat Throughput and Extremely Low Latency. They also include e-t-e flow control, full 802.1p/Q QoS, VLAN support (QnQ_1536Bytes), direct 3G Node B to RNC input, integrated Ethernet switch, TDM functionality, Ethernet statistics monitoring and a superb SNMP-based management system. Customers include major mobile operators, Fixed Wireless Access networks and private networks (governments, enterprise, data, broadband, and internet). Allgon Microwave supplies the only fully seamless IP/Ethernet microwave radio backhaul to the UMTS TDD and WiMAX communities.

For further information, please visit our web site (www.allgomicrowave.com); contact call us at +46 31 771 7900; or send us an E-mail at [email protected]

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