Transcript TowerStream provides the most reliable, cost effective

Wireless Ring
•Redundant- Every POP
has at least 2 paths to
the backbone
•Self-healing
•Same design in Greater
Providence/Newport
Greater
Boston
Coverage
Over 90 %
penetration rate
Greater
Providence
Coverage
Over 90 %
penetration rate
Company Profile
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T1 (1.5 Mbps)- T3 (10 – 45 Mbps) market.
Hundreds of business customers.
About 20 employees.
Use mostly 5 GHz spectrum.
Founded in October 2000 & self-funded.
Major deployment of 2nd Generation FixedWireless P2MP (Aperto Networks) and P2P
(Western Multiplex).
Customer base
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4 TV stations
3 Universities
4 law firms
2 hospitals,
12 biotech companies
6 banks
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12 engineer/consultant
7 Financial Services
3 Non-profits
3 construction cos.
3 city/towns
And a major donut
conglomerate
Customer base
• From MIT Lincoln Labs concerned with
separate egress for disaster recovery …
• To abandoned urban businesses that are
too far from a D-SLAM or outside of Cable
• Or who simply want good service at a great
price
More Broadband, Lower Costs
• TowerStream offers customers lower costs
and greater reliability than traditional wire
line networks
• TowerStream offers better reliability and
security
• TowerStream can deliver service quickly
• No phone company. Total bypass.
Fixed-Wireless Has Arrived
• Second-generation point-to-multipoint fixed
wireless broadband network
• As reliable as a wired T1
• Weather does not affect performance
• Security equal to or greater than a wired T1
Maximum Broadband
• Services
– T-1: .5 - 10 megabits per second (Mbps)
– T-3: 10 Mbps up to 45 Mbps per second
– Custom: Up to Gigabit speeds
Our SLA
• TowerStream is among the first companies to
offer a Service Level Agreement on the last mile
• Our SLA:
– 99.99% network availability
– Latency guarantee < 75ms round trip delay on TowerStream
Network
– Latency guarantee < 50ms round trip delay on last mile
– Packet loss guarantee < 1% on backbone
• Our wireless ring network assures redundancy
Disaster Recovery
True Separate Egress
• No wires to cut- Back-hoe proof!
– Wire line redundancy solutions are susceptible
to having both lines cut by road crews, careless
electricians, etc.
– TowerStream supports BGP (Border Gateway
Protocol) for seamless, real-time back-up
Flexible Bandwidth on Demand
• TowerStream technology is flexible enough
to allow for immediate increases of
bandwidth depending on your needs –
• From .5 to 10 Mbps
• From 10 to 45 Mbps
• In increments as big or small as you need.
TowerStream Security
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56-bit hardware assisted data encryption standard (DES) and Media Access Control
(MAC) authentication.
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This means Data is encrypted before sending on each side then decrypted when
received.
There are also some other challenges that make a FIXED wireless link harder to break
than a wire connection.
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Relative physical proximity to the CPE (roof access).
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Extensive RF hardware and software (very expensive).
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Extensive RF knowledge
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Cracking both DES and the state-of-the-art spreading and modulation schemes such
as QPSK and 16QAM which are also additional native encryption.
Up and Running
• TowerStream installation takes between 10
days and 2 weeks
• Traditional T-1 installation can take up to 2
months
Weeks
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Traditional T-1
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TowerStream
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Things that are working well
• Spectrum is truly weatherproof.
• New generation equipment works well.
• Saving spectrum by making our network.
available to other providers as resellers and
wholesalers.
On the horizon…
• As spectrum use increases, we hope to get
FCC direction regarding spectrum
“etiquette.”
• Priority given to first-in providers.
• And protection from malicious 3rd parties
who intentionally interfere.