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June 16, 2010

Axtel Concludes Second Round of Strategic Investment into Eden Rock Communications

By Anil Sharma
TMCnet Contributor

Servicios Axtel (News - Alert), S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary of Axtel S.A.B. de C.V. (Axtel), has completed a second round of strategic financial investment into Eden Rock Communications.
 
Officials with Eden said that since 2008, the company has been a provider to Axtel of 4G strategic technology consulting services in such areas as strategic technology assessments, airlink systems engineering, system capacity analysis, system availability analysis, and equipment certification.
 
Axtel currently operates one of the largest and most successful WiMAX (News - Alert) deployments in the world.
 
Axtel further seeks to realize the benefits of Eden Rock’s Eden-NET (News - Alert) multi-node controller solution for its 4G network deployments.
 
“Axtel is a world-class, fast-paced, highly-entrepreneurial, smaller-tier operator with focus on 4G wireless telephony and broadband data services,” said Chaz Immendorf, president and CEO of Eden Rock Communications (News - Alert) in a statement.
 
Immendorf said that the company is pleased that Axtel has demonstrated their confidence in Eden Rock with this second investment.
 
“Our work with Axtel has proven to have the added benefit of spawning numerous innovations which can be applied to our flagship Eden-NET product,” he said.

Victor Rangel, Axtel’s Technology planning director said that Eden Rock has served Axtel extremely well with their unique 4G technology expertise.
 
Rangel said that Eden Rock demonstrated these capabilities while assisting Axtel to solve complex issues presented during the company’s WiMAX deployment in 2008 and 2009. 
He said that this expertise and their proprietary Eden-NET solution should deliver significant benefits to 4G wireless network deployments around the world.
 
“With this agreement, which brings Axtel and Eden Rock closer, we look forward to expanding further our deployment and network capacity planning expertise,” said Rangel.
Ivan Alonso, executive director for Innovation and Technology of Axtel, has joined the Eden Rock Communications Board of Directors.
 
“Ivan brings a wealth of industry and operational experience in the area of wireless network deployments to Eden Rock,” said Chaz.
“We value the additional guidance Ivan will bring - he is a great addition to our Board,” he added.



Anil Sharma is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anil’s articles, please visit his columnist page.


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