Wifi-Citywide, InfiNet Wireless and Lockheed Martin Announce Municipal Wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) and Public Safety Pilot Network in Riverside, California
RIVERSIDE, CA – August 8, 2006 – WiFi-CityWide, InfiNet Wireless and Lockheed Martin have formed a partnership with support from Charter Business to build a pilot municipal Wi-Fi and public safety network in support of their bid to the city of Riverside, California. The pilot, expected to be exercised over a period of several weeks, will demonstrate an integrated public safety and Wi-Fi wireless network to meet the requirements of the Wireless Riverside RFP. The public safety network will make use of the FCC designated 4.9GHz band and the municipal wireless network will make use of the traditional 2.4GHz band.
WiFi-CityWide is the engineering and integration operator for the project. Their parent company, Baja Wireless, operates a 250 square mile Wi-Fi network, believed to be the largest in the world, in Ensenada and Rosarito Beach, Baja California. InfiNet Wireless, the dominant provider of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) equipment in Eastern Europe and recent entrant to the North American market, is providing the wireless connectivity for both the public safety and the Wi-Fi portions of the network. InfiNet Wireless will provide network connectivity equipment in a variety of configurations including 4.9GHz and 2.4GHz mesh, 5.8GHz backhaul and 2.4GHz Wi-Fi radios.
Lockheed Martin Information Technology, Public Safety Services group, will operate the public safety portion of the network, as well as provide the customer and technical support services. Charter Business, which provides scalable, tailored, and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to Riverside businesses, will be provisioning the bandwidth necessary for the pilot demonstration.
“The collaboration of these best-in-class technology companies will support Riverside’s vision of building an affordable municipal wireless broadband network in combination with a public safety communication network,” said Mike Doble, CEO of Public Safety Broadband, the solution architect for the pilot project. He continued, “The demonstration incorporates several applications for fixed, nomadic and mobile users.”
About WiFi-CityWide:
WiFi-CityWide LLC, of Lake Forest, California was formed for the purpose of developing citywide wireless networks in the 2.4GHz and 4.9GHz bands. The principals of WiFi-CityWide LLC are wireless and network professionals, knowledgeable in providing municipal services and customer service. WiFi-CityWide LLC is owned by two principal firms: Baja Wireless and Security Think LLC. Baja Wireless is a Baja California corporation that developed one of the largest citywide wireless infrastructures in the world to date in Ensenada and Rosarito Beach, Baja California. Security Think LLC is a security network architecture design and implementation firm that serves Baja Wireless as well as many other customers.
About InfiNet Wireless:
InfiNet Wireless is a leading global vendor of Last Mile connectivity solutions utilizing Fixed Broadband Wireless Access (FBWA) and emerging WiMAX technologies. InfiNet Wireless’ routing products represent more than ten years of intense engineering efforts by world-class Russian development laboratories, with extensive field experience in the design and deployment of thousands of wireless carrier-class networks. InfiNet Wireless is a member of the WiMAX Forum™ and is committed to bringing WiMAX-compliant products to market based on the emerging 802.16 standard. InfiNet has earned a clear leadership position in fixed wireless installations in Russia and Eastern Europe and has more than 300 carrier-class wireless networks throughout the world.
About Charter Communications:
Charter Communications, Inc. is the third-largest provider of a full range of advanced broadband services, including advanced digital video entertainment programming (Charter Business™ Digital Cable TV), Charter Business™ High-Speed Internet access service, and Charter Business™ Telephone services. Charter Business™ similarly provides scalable, tailored, and cost-effective broadband communications solutions to business organizations—such as business-to-business internet access, data networking, and video and music entertainment services. Charter’s advertising sales and production services are sold under the Charter Media® brand. More information about Charter can be found at www.charter.com.
About Public Safety Broadband:
Public Safety Broadband is a wireless solution architecture and integration firm specializing in public safety networks and applications. With expertise in wireless, wireless broadband, microwave, and public safety communications in virtually all frequencies, including the recently designated 4.9GHz, Public Safety Broadband provides the overall solution for municipalities, public safety, emergency services and critical infrastructure businesses by working with best-in-class equipment and application providers.