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Cosmoline Standardizes on DragonWave for Backhaul in 4G Mobile WiMAX
Deployment Across Greece Horizon Compact and Horizon Quantum Selected to
Provide Native-Ethernet Backhaul for Business, Residential and
Government Services
Other Topics: WiMAX
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MARKETWIRE via COMTEX
March 15, 2010
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, - DragonWave Inc. a leading global supplier of packet
microwave radio systems for mobile and access networks, today announced
that Cosmoline has selected DragonWave as its exclusive backhaul
provider for a national 4G mobile WiMAX network across Greece.
DragonWave's Horizon Compact and Horizon Quantum will deliver
native-Ethernet backhaul across approximately 1,000 wireless links. |
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"The combination of Horizon Compact's all-outdoor
form factor and robustness plus Horizon Quantum's unequalled capacity
and spectral efficiency made this an easy decision to standardize on
DragonWave for all of our backhaul needs," said Dimitris Politopoulos,
chief executive officer, Cosmoline. "DragonWave offers a family of
best-in-class products that affords us the flexibility to strategically
evolve our network, extend our customers new services and achieve
sustainable operating efficiencies."
Cosmoline, a wholly owned subsidiary of DEMCO Group
founded in 1995, plans to migrate about 130,000 customers of traditional
leased-line offerings to next-generation fixed wireless access for data,
voice and video services. Deployment began in 2009 across Greece's two
largest cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, and is continuing city by city
to cover all major cities across the country. Cosmoline aims to convert
its business, residential and government users to 4G mobile WiMAX
services.
"We have developed a suite of packet microwave backhaul solutions that
have successfully enabled service providers around the globe to
undertake rapid, cost-effective expansion of geographic market
coverage," said Peter Allen, president and CEO, DragonWave. "The Horizon
Compact and Horizon Quantum deliver the high capacity, ultra-low latency
and carrier-class reliability that Cosmoline will require as it rolls
out its 4G mobile WiMAX services across more and more markets in
Greece."
"Future Technologies Venture, LLC is honored to be partnered with
DragonWave and Cosmoline on this opportunity. Through this project,
Future Technologies has been able to expand their sales and engineering
support of the DragonWave products into the European market," said Nino
Canu, CEO and President of Future Technologies Venture, LLC.
DragonWave Horizon products operate in both
licensed and unlicensed radio frequencies between 6 and 38 GHz. An
uncompromised product design delivers pure "packet" microwave
performance with software scalable, ultra-low latency transport of up to
2 Gbps per link. Extremely easy to deploy and manage, DragonWave
products deliver carrier-grade (99.999%) interference-free performance
in next-generation IP networks.
About Cosmoline
Cosmoline (www.cosmoline.com) has been providing
innovative and highly usable telecommunication services to both
individuals and companies throughout Greece since 1995. Today, as one of
the most modern telecommunication service providers in the country and a
member of DEMCO Group, one of the most prominent business groups in
Greece, we demonstrate considerable dynamic growth offering fixed
telephony, broadband Internet, data, and multimedia information
services, as well as interconnection services to carriers. Obtaining a
3.5 GHz Band Fixed Wireless Access License covering all Greek territory
in 2006, and the establishment of a new WiMAX technology network, the
development of which began in 2009, the future of Cosmoline will be
"wireless", aiming primarily at the development and provision of
innovative services which will enable us to gain a dominant position in
the Wireless Broadband Services market.
About Future Technologies Venture, LLC dba Future Technologies
Future Technologies is a Value Added Reseller and professional
system integration company that spe-cializes in emerging wireless
technologies, such as WiMAX, LTE, licensed/unlicensed Point to Point
Equipment, WiFi and Satellite communication equipment. Through this
diverse product offering and Future Technologies extensive professional
experience, Future Technologies can provide true end-to-end solutions
for most Carrier, Enterprise and private network requirements.
About DragonWave
DragonWave(R) is a leading provider
of high-capacity packet microwave solutions that drive next-generation
IP networks. DragonWave's carrier-grade point-to-point packet microwave
systems transmit broadband voice, video and data, enabling service
providers, government agencies, enterprises and other organizations to
meet their increasing bandwidth requirements rapidly and affordably. The
principal application of DragonWave's products is wireless network
backhaul. Additional solutions include leased line replacement, last
mile fiber extension and enterprise networks. DragonWave's corporate
headquarters is located in Ottawa, Ontario, with sales locations in
Europe, the Middle East, Asia and North America. For more information,
visit http://www.dragonwaveinc.com.
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