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BeamReach Announces Agreements
with
Proxim, Mediatrix, and Filanet
BeamSphere Partner Program Extends BeamReach
Technology to Business and Residential Applications
ATLANTA, June 4, 2002--BeamReach
Networks, the leading provider of broadband wireless access systems based on
adaptive beamforming technology, announced that it has established product
agreements with three industry-leading vendors: Proxim Corporation, Mediatrix,
and Filanet.
The three companies are joining BeamReach's newly
inaugurated BeamSphere Partner Program, which has been established to facilitate
development and interoperability of products and services which are
complementary to the BeamPlex system, and which will expand the applications
available to business and residential subscribers. Proxim provides localized
wireless LAN solutions and residential 802.11 products; Filanet provides
advanced security solutions for managed IP services; and Mediatrix provides
voice over IP (VOIP) solutions.
"These three companies -- Proxim, Mediatrix, and
Filanet -- are each leaders in their fields and represent best-in-class
solutions," said Bob Kelsch, BeamReach CEO. "We are very pleased to
have established these relationships, which will certainly facilitate the
delivery of valuable, end-to-end solutions for users of our system."
Proxim has a very broad range of residential and small
office/home office products that enable sharing of Internet connections, files,
and printers. These products extend the functionality of BeamReach subscriber
equipment by allowing wireless network connections within buildings. Through the
use of Proxim's 802.11 products, mobility is enabled for untethered Internet
access throughout the subscriber's residence or business location.
Mediatrix is a leader in the VOIP field with its
network-edge solutions for the residential and business telephony marketplaces.
Together with Mediatrix's broad product line of VOIP gateways, integrated access
devices, and IP communications servers, BeamReach will be able to provide
high-quality telephony solutions to its customers.
Filanet offers solutions for managed IP services
delivery to small-to-medium businesses and telecommuter customers. The solution
consists of a centralized web-based management platform, service provisioning
portal, and an innovative line of cost-effective service appliances, the
InterJak platform. Residing in each small office, the InterJak delivers Internet
connectivity, security services, and wireless security services across a range
of cost-effective appliances. The InterJak integrates an ICSA-certified
firewall, intrusion detection, site-to-site and remote access VPN, advanced user
authentication and additional IT services.
BeamReach's BeamPlex system incorporates the most
advanced broadband wireless access technology to appear in the marketplace,
representing the best opportunity service providers have ever had to
successfully deliver broadband wireless services. The BeamPlex innovation
incorporates BeamReach's patented Adaptive MultiBeam OFDM technology -- the
seamless integration of adaptive beamforming, frequency diversity, and
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). This 4th-generation
technology concurrently delivers more than a 10 times improvement in spectral
efficiency and up to a 16 times improvement in cell coverage area over
3rd-generation wireless technologies while maintaining subscriber data rates in
excess of 1.5 Mbps.
About BeamReach Networks
BeamReach is the leading provider of broadband wireless
access systems based on adaptive beamforming technology. BeamReach's
award-winning technology combines the capabilities of adaptive antenna arrays
with spectral and spatial processing to offer service providers tremendous
improvements in coverage and capacity for cost-effective, wide-scale deployment
of broadband wireless networks. BeamReach systems operate in the MMDS and WCS
bands and will later be available for 3.5 GHz and other bands. For more
information, please visit www.beamreachnetworks.com.
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CONTACT: BeamReach Press Contacts:
Available on site at SuperComm:
Bernard
Aboussouan,
408/857-0433
baboussouan@beamreachnetworks.com
or
Available by Phone Anytime:
Tassin
Marketing
Kimberly Tassin,
206/654-1001
kimberly@tassinmarketing.com
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