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Motorola’s Canopy™ Wireless Broadband Platform
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Motorola, Inc.
January 16, 2006
Schools, universities, non-government offices lead with
connectivity
SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) announced today that
its Canopy™ wireless broadband platform has been deployed throughout
Macedonia in what is believed to be the world’s first national
wireless broadband network. |
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The Macedonia Connects Project, a program designed to provide the
entire country with affordable high-speed wireless connectivity,
already is delivering Internet content to Macedonia’s 360 primary and
100 secondary schools. In addition, two-dozen secondary school
dormitories, 15 university faculties and another 15 local Educational
Development Board offices have been connected to the Motorola Canopy
network. Additionally, more than 1000 businesses are served by the
same network.
The Macedonia Connects Project, managed by the Academy for Educational
Development (AED), is being funded by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID) in cooperation with the Ministry of
Education and Science of the Republic of Macedonia.
“To establish a national wireless network requires that at least 95
percent of a country’s population has ready access to low-cost
Internet connectivity,” said Glenn Strachan, AED’s director of the
Macedonia Connects Project. "Wiring the schools created the
springboard to full connectivity, and we knew from experience that
this would produce a tremendously positive economic impact for
Macedonia. In terms of Macedonia’s relatively small land mass, which
is about 25,333 square kilometers, we were able to conduct this
cost-effective program on a national, rather than a pilot scale,”
Strachan added.
According to On.Net, a large Internet service provider in Macedonia,
the Motorola Canopy deployment provides the wireless backbone that
delivers high-speed wireless connectivity nationally to urban and
rural areas alike.
“Wi-Fi repeaters have been installed in 531 locations at schools,
universities and local government offices to facilitate additional
network connectivity to individuals and businesses.” said Predrag
Cemerikic, On.net’s CEO. “Wireless Broadband access is provided for
businesses and the general public with Motorola Canopy subscriber
units in 36 cities and 170 villages throughout the Republic of
Macedonia from the 130-plus Motorola Canopy Access Points that were
initially deployed for the schools project.”
“The Macedonia Connects Project is a good example of scalability,”
said Dennis Stipati, director of sales for Motorola Canopy in Europe,
Middle East, Africa and Asia. “Working
with On.net – a large in-country Internet service provider– and by
using the schools as a platform for the country-wide network, we have
been able to build to a scale large enough so that the resulting
market has the economic critical mass to help ensure uninterrupted
Internet connectivity, especially in rural areas. In turn, this larger
scale has enabled On.net to lower the prices of connectivity
dramatically and offer special teacher/student packages at €9 to €15
per month,” Stipati added.
On.net designed Macedonia’s country-wide wireless broadband network to
Motorola Canopy specification. All of the Motorola Canopy equipment
was supplied by Skopje-based Login Systems, a leading regional
importer and distributor of Motorola products.
About Motorola’s Canopy™ platform
Winner of the 2005 SUPERquest Award for Continuous Achievement,
Motorola’s Canopy platform is a robust, high-speed wireless broadband
solution for cost-effective connectivity for private networks, such as
governments or enterprises and for Internet service providers and
carriers. The Canopy platform, part of the MOTOwi4 wireless access
solutions, is a scalable, reliable platform that supports high speed
broadband applications. Its superior performance promises one of the
lowest total costs of ownership and is designed to significantly
reduce a provider's start-up, maintenance and leased-line costs. The
Canopy point-to-point and point-to-multipoint system configurations
are being deployed in more than 100 countries around the world. Please
visit our website at www.motorola.com/canopy and the online magazine
Connections at www.connectwithcanopy.com.
About Motorola
Motorola (NYSE:MOT) is a Fortune 100 global communications leader that
provides seamless mobility products and solutions across broadband,
embedded systems and wireless networks. In your home, auto, workplace
and all spaces in between, seamless mobility means you can reach the
people, things and information you need, anywhere, anytime. Seamless
mobility harnesses the power of technology convergence and enables
smarter, faster, cost-effective and flexible communication. Motorola
had sales of US $31.3 billion in 2004. For more information:
www.motorola.com
Canopy™ On Top Of The World
A technician from On.Net, the Macedonia Connects Project internet
service provider, makes final adjustments to one of two Motorola
Canopy™ broadband network radio antenna reflectors on a wind-blown,
snow-covered mountain top. Motorola’s Canopy technology was chosen as
the wireless backhaul solution for the world’s first nation-wide
wireless broadband network because of its field-proven reliability
where rugged terrain and harsh weather conditions are commonplace. |
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