Largest single outdoor installation serves 20,000 companies & households

Aachen, Germany - Monday 14th September, 2009 — Taking broadband Internet services to rural areas is a pressing technological challenge in many European countries. Villages and regions without suitable landline connections are increasingly opting for standard wireless LAN equipment to bridge the “last mile”. WLAN offers many advantages over landline technologies and niche radio solutions: Fast deployment, no licensing costs, excellent interoperability, high data rates and reliable transmission at low investment costs.
 
LANCOM Systems, the leading German vendor of professional wireless LAN and VPN solutions, offers a complete range of solutions to provide fast, economical Internet backbone connections even to remote rural communities. The number of installations is increasing daily, with projects running in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Italy and Spain. LANCOM’s latest technology – the world’s first 802.11n-based outdoor access point, the award-winning LANCOM OAP-310agn Wireless – supports WLAN point-to-point links over 20 km and more, and provides net data rates of up to 100 Mbps over shorter distances (around 2 km).

A mainstay area for LANCOM outdoor WLAN is in the Alps. The largest single LANCOM installation has been deployed in the Linz area in Austria, where 20,000 firms and households now benefit from the availability of high-speed Internet connections. Also in Switzerland and Southern Tirol (Italy), numerous villages use LANCOM equipment to connect their citizens to fast Internet backbones.

Other LANCOM WLAN installations deliver broadband Internet to the coastal area of Viareggio, Pisa and Livorno (Italy), to several Belgian cities, on a number of Dutch campsites, to areas of the Balearic Islands, to several small Greece islands, and to nearly 2,000 inhabitants of the German city of Dresden, to name just a few.

In addition to delivering fast Internet services to rural areas and even oil platforms, LANCOM outdoor wireless LAN plays a major part in famous projects around the world, including:
-   The construction of Dubai’s Palm Jebel Island – LANCOM outdoor WLAN links provided real-time data exchange between all of the dredgers and the construction office, allowing the teams to work with the necessary precision to shape the ornate island.
-   LANCOM wireless LAN is also in use as a backup to the security systems of Europe’s longest combined road and rail bridge, the Öresund Bridge linking Denmark and Sweden.

Jan Buis, Director of International Sales at LANCOM: “We have seen tremendous growth of our outdoor wireless LAN business in the last two years. More and more ISPs and municipalities are deploying our WLAN backbone technology to deliver essential Internet services to deprived areas. They have found the most economical and quickest possible way to achieve their goal.”