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September 07, 2010

AirTap's WiMAX Technology Extends Broadband Coverage in GoM

By Mini Swamy
TMCnet Contributor

AirTap communications, using the latest cutting edge WiMAX (News - Alert) technologies and fiber-backed, carrier-grade backhaul has extended its wireless broadband coverage in the Gulf of Mexico and related coastal areas, enabling enterprise class broadband solutions to remote locations.

As a consequence of the expansion, broadband coverage has been extended to additional locations offshore and additional towers have also been placed along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. This project, when completed is expected to cover all of the Gulf shelf primary energy sectors.

WiMAX is a second-generation protocol that allows for more efficient bandwidth use, interference avoidance, and is intended to allow higher data rates over longer distances. The increased range due to newer technologies means that the potential is there to cover huge tracts of land or sea.

David Heximer (News - Alert), AirTap president was pleased at the expanded coverage and expanded network capabilities, and said that AirTap now catered to the entire central gulf coastline, almost 400 miles from Texas to Mississippi. This meant that the broadband coverage area now exceeded 20,000 square miles of the Gulf and its coastal areas.

Operating the largest high speed, multi-point broadband network in the Gulf of Mexico, AirTap has been able to provide the region with faster Internet, high quality video, secure data and clear VoIP communications all from a single network with wide coverage area.

Using the latest cutting edge WiMAX technologies and fiber-backed, carrier-grade backhaul, which provides wireless transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes, AirTap enables stable enterprise class broadband solutions to remote locations.

AirTap Communications (News - Alert), LLC was founded to create new wireless access means to better serve remote business communications in any environment. Since its inception, AirTap has developed and implemented several breakthrough wireless solutions. 

In a related news release, AirTap Communications, LLC, announced that they have provided critical, IP-based broadband connectivity to one of the principal entities involved with the Deepwater Horizon spill response efforts. 


Mini Swamy is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Juliana Kenny


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