The Wireless Market Out ThereJust surfing in anticipation of tomorrow’s conference call and came across the following:
ARTT (Advanced Radio Telecom) trades on the Nasdaq and the following is their company profile.
“Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. is a provider of broadband services to carriers and service providers, whose customers are not served by fiber optic networks. Utilizing its national footprint of 39 GHz spectrum licenses, the Company plans to serve forty major metropolitan markets over the next three years. The Company is building its own fixed wireless, packet-based broadband metropolitan networks on the Internet Protocol (IP) standard.”
https://biz.yahoo.com/bw/001206/tx_netvoic.html
Anyway they announced back in December that they were offering a broadband wireless product as follows for the last-mile market
“This agreement allows NetVoice to deliver high-speed fixed wireless broadband last-mile connectivity solutions in metropolitan areas where ART, a Cisco Powered Network(TM) service provider, is located. By using ART's wireless metropolitan networks with NetVoice's point-to-multi-point non-line-of-site technology, Cisco's VOFDM product line, NetVoice can expand its wireless service into locations without additional cost of equipment”
Just recently they announced that that product line has had sales as follows
“BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001--Advanced Radio Telecom Corp. (ART) (Nasdaq:ARTT - news), a leading provider of broadband fixed wireless Internet services, today announced that it has signed more than 80 customers to its BroadStream(TM) Internet Service since the service became commercially available on January 9, 2001.”
https://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010212/wa_advancd.html
80 customers at $1,000 a month in less than a month…
This is just the beginning of the market out there for broadband service for the last mile. Although the technology used to provide their service is different than Plaintrees, the market is there.
Another interesting site that notes a conference on broadband wireless as follows
https://www.broadband-wireless.com/index.HTM
Note the special tutorial on non-licensed IP Broadband solutions as follows
https://www.broadband-wireless.com/Tutorial2.htm
Also note the last paragraph of the following link
https://www.broadband-wireless.com/EventOvr.HTM
Don't Miss Out! The "Global Broadband Wireless Market could generate revenues in excess of $10 billion by 2003." (Strategis Group). Make Plans to attend and prepare to launch your wireless initiative in the broadband arena.
Plaintree needs to make a formal announcement (sales are already confirmed by IR at Plaintree) of that first satisfied customer and solidify the viability of their products. Since David Kahn is present in tomorrow’s conference call I’m sure that that will be a topic of discussion. IMO once they ensure that their existing products and their new products serve their purpose they will enjoy a market that is to be huge.
Incidently, the first news release that interested me regarding Plaintree was as follows. Since then, Plaintree has delivered on there strategic plan to date and although tomorrow may only be considered a small step (hopefully a big one) their plan will be realized done the road. IMO.
https://www.newswire.ca/releases/August2000/24/c3510.html
Plaintree Systems Ready for the "Fiberless" Explosion
OTTAWA, Aug. 24 /CNW/ - Plaintree Systems Inc. ("Plaintree") (TSE:LAN;OTC BB: LANPF) President and CEO, David Watson, says "the fiberless optical market is ready to explode and Plaintree will be ready when it happens". Watson has spent the last six months having face-to-face discussions with potential customers and the competition around the world. Plaintree has moved quickly to expand the team to help meet these upcoming opportunities by adding the following key team members:
MARKETING:
Bill White as Director of Marketing
SALES:
Colin Welch, Regional Sales Rep, previously a leading sales rep at PAV
Mike Salustri, Regional Sales Rep, a leading sales rep from Silcon
Jason Lee, Regional Sales Rep, top salesperson from the networking industry
ENGINEERING
David Kahn, Vice President of Product Development, one of the top photonics research engineers in the world
Thomas Milc, Physical Design Engineer, leading physical designer from Nortel and a former Plaintree team leader
Dermit Kavanaugh, Manager of Standards, also from Nortel
Duncan Wilcox, Manager of Electronic Design, from Alcatel, Europe
Ilia Ekchtout, Physical Design Engineer from JDS Uniphase Design Workshop, a leading industrial design house is now contracted for key design work, combining form and function.
Top names in both the GSM and ISP markets have shown a strong interest in Plaintree's optical fiberless technology. A number of these customers are flying from as far away as Europe and the Middle East to view Plaintree's operations and design work. According to some market research, it is reported that the GSM market represents a possible $1/2 billion in potential optical fiberless business. There are currently about 200,000 ISPs around the world and that number is growing. ISP market estimates have yet to be determined. Plaintree's optical fiberless technology will offer a solution to some of the infrastructure problems of crowded airwaves that have arisen with the abundant use of RF and microwave technology. Plaintree System's wireless links use a completely eyesafe LED technology. This differs from the more commonly used laser products that may result in eye damage if viewed through a telescope or binoculars. These infrared fiberless products offer high-speed data transfer that answer the demand for big bandwidth. Plaintree also develops and manufactures intelligent backbone and workgroup switches, which
makes it one of the few companies to provide a complete solution to the 'last mile' problem.
Plaintree anticipates its aggressive investment in engineering will result in potential fiberless product releases in this current year. In responding to the needs of their potential customers, Plaintree is one of the few companies with the experience and existing manufacturing to accommodate the volume of product that will be required to meet the demands of the ISP and
GSM markets.
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