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Monday March 11, 8:21 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: Flarion Technologies
Flarion Brings Always-on Mobile Broadband Access Demonstration to Major Cities with Cell-on-Light- Truck -COLT-
Cities Include Orlando at the CTIA Show, Atlanta, Boston, New York, San Jose, and Washington D.C.
BEDMINSTER, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 11, 2002-- Flarion Technologies, the architect of flash-OFDM(TM) mobile broadband network technology, is demonstrating a true broadband experience for mobile users in major cities to network operators, government officials, analysts, journalists, and companies interested in becoming flash-OFDM alliance members.
Using a Cell-on-Light-Truck known as a COLT, which is equipped with two base stations and an IP network, Flarion can drive from city to city and demonstrate mobile access to popular business and consumer applications, such as Virtual Private Network (VPN), Voice over IP (VoIP), multimedia streaming, online gaming, Internet Protocol (IP) video/camera feed using Ricoh's RDC-i700 Wireless Digital Camera, Instant Messaging and Web browsing. The Flarion base station serves Flarion wireless modems that are plugged into standard digital video cameras, laptops and Personal Digital Assistants (PDA).
Flarion's flash-OFDM mobile broadband system is a packet-switched radio access network that seamlessly transports IP services over-the-air between an IP network and a user device - with no changes to the IP protocol, applications, devices, or content. With flash-OFDM, the desktop experience is mobilized with `always on' broadband connectivity to any laptop, PDA or other IP-enabled device. Flarion's technology allows mobile network operators to profitably offer ``anytime, always on'' broadband connectivity to enterprise users and consumers.
``With our COLT, we have mobilized Flarion's flash-OFDM network to bring always-on broadband speed and user experience to any doorstep in America,'' said Flarion's vice president of business development and marketing, Peter Carson. ``When participants plug our wireless modem into their laptops or PDAs, they are not only amazed by the data speed and response time of our system, but how we transparently make their entire suite of existing IP applications move. They also see a world of possibilities and new applications that were previously untenable due to inadequate network response times.''
To date, Flarion has successfully demonstrated mobile broadband with the COLT in New York and Washington D.C. The Flarion COLT will next travel onto Orlando, Florida to showcase the flash-OFDM system at the CTIA Wireless 2002 trade show on March 18-20, booth #4963. After CTIA, Flarion's COLT will visit cities including Atlanta, Boston, San Jose, Kansas City, Seattle, and San Diego.
Flarion has an FCC trial license for the 700 MHz frequency band and is building commercial products for the 800 and 1900 MHz cellular frequencies. Its flash-OFDM technology offers users burst data rates of 3 Megabits-per-second (Mbps) and data rates of 384 Kilobits-per-second (Kbps) at the edge of a cell. The system's Quality of Service (QoS) feature allows service providers to offer flat rate pricing for tiered classes of service, enabling licensed operators worldwide the ability to offer profitable mobile data services to multiple customer segments, including the most demanding business users.
About Flarion Technologies
Flarion Technologies is mobilizing the Internet with its innovative mobile communications network technology, flash-OFDM(TM). This technology will make seamless mobile broadband access to the Internet truly affordable to the mass market - anytime, anywhere. Flarion's flash-OFDM technology, which originated in Bell Labs, enables mobile network operators to profitably offer Internet Protocol (IP)-based broadband services. Flarion's mobile broadband network unwires the Internet at a lower cost than any other mobile system in the world.
Flarion's RadioRouter(TM) base station product easily overlays onto an operator's existing network and radio spectrum, and provides a seamless routing interface to the operator's existing IP network. Flarion's flash-OFDM-based devices provide users mobile Internet access with a true broadband experience.
Flarion Technologies is based in Bedminster, New Jersey (USA). Investors include Bessemer Venture Partners, Charles River Ventures, Cisco Systems, Equitek Capital, New Venture Partners II LP, Nassau Capital, and Pequot Capital. More information about Flarion can be accessed at www.flarion.com
Note to editors: Flarion, flash-OFDM and RadioRouter are trademarks of Flarion Technologies. Other trademarks and registered trademarks referenced herein remain the property of their respective owners.
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