Features & Benefits of Wireless

48 hour install
With normal DSL upto a month to install & fibre or mid-band ethernet even longer, businesses can get a symmetric broadband connection set up and running in just 2 business days. With the FastTrack program customers who sign up by Wednesday can be up and running before the weekend.

High Bandwidth: Speeds possible over fixed WiMAX range from 64Kbps to in a theoretical excess of 100Mbps, and faster, however, we only offer a maximum of 10Mbps at this stage. It is not as fast as fibre but wireless has other advantages like speed of deployment, availability and price.

Symmetric speeds: The highest upstream SHDSL or Annex M ADSL2 Plus speed is 2Mbps. Businesses usually need to upload as fast as they can download,as most companies are producers as well as consumers of data.
The key advantages of symmetric over asymmetric systems are:
* Faster data upload speed
* Support for real-time applications
* Video conferencing
* Surveillance and security
* Multimedia
* Streaming video
* VOIP
* delivering the aggregate bandwidth required by a number of branches.

Availability: Our wireless services covers Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide and reaches over 500,000 businesses. It reaches business areas that are affected by fibre rim and pair gain.

Interference free Spectrum: WiMAX standards incorporate a technology called DFS - Dynamic Frequency Selection, a service where the radio system automatically searches and allocates a frequency channel within the spectrum that is clear of interference. WiMAX does not use the crowded public frequencies like 2.4 GHz (used by wireless LAN protocols 802.11b & g) but the 10 - 66 GHz range.

Range: Unlike WiFi which is a short-range wireless technology of a few hundred metres, WiMAX can offer high-speed wireless broadband access at ranges of over 20kms.

Secure: WiMAX incorporates proprietary TDM based protocols, Pseudo-random Transmission Scrambling, 500,000 key encryption, MAC Address authentication & filtering, GPS based timing, synchronisation & theft protection. Although the WiMAX Forum emphasizes that WiMAX is more secure than Wi-Fi, it still will require :
User terminals with enough power to handle encryption acceleration to handle AES processing demands.
Intrusion detection: If your http & smtp traffic contains malware, you of course still need perimeter security.

Application friendly: WiMAX supports IP Trunking and IP Telephony. It is quicker and more cost effective to support voice, video and data content over WiMAX than DSL.

Distance Limitation: WiMAX is not as affected as DSL with the factor of distance from the exchange. So if you are within 10 km of the exchange with a near or good line of sight you will get excellent symmentric speeds.

Near Line of Sight requirement: Are trees or buildings obstructing your wireless connection? Many times a free and clear line-of-sight (LOS) path is not available due to trees in rural areas or buildings in urban environments. Traditional solutions involve either elevating the antenna above the obstruction or an extra hop to take the signal around the obstruction. Both are expensive options and they're often unavailable.

A solution that supports Near-Line-of-Sight Obstruction (partial blockage) is the answer. WiMAX uses OFDM technology that breaks a wideband signal transmission into independent datastreams called subcarriers and uses sophisticated error correction on the receive side to allow reliable throughput around obstructions.




High Performance: Our WiMAX networks have a typical delay of <40ms One-Way , a jitter value of <20ms, contention ratios of 1:1 or 10:1, a network availability target of 99.9% and a typical packet loss of <0.1%

Dropout Tolerant: It is commonly thought that wind, rain and bad weather can cause dropouts in wireless broadband. In some cases changes in air pressure can cause multipath problems which in turn cause bit errors. But signal dropouts and loss of connections is going to be rare for good quality wireless broadband, especially where the subscriber unit has been properly installed.

In fact wireless technologies can cope better than wired with common causes of service disruptions for in-ground installations. Think about what happen to copper lines underground during rain. How good is your DSL signal going to be after rain if your line goes through a flooded pit? Wireless broadband is not as subject as copper lines to flooding, fire, pipes being dug up, lines being repaired, and DSL codes disappearing from customer lines after service problems!
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