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Presenter Today:Presenter Today:

Eng. Ossama HusseinChief Executive Officer

CEO

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Wi-Fi on Steroids – Today’s Smarter Choice for the Egyptian Market

Intelligent Wireless Broadband

National Infocomm Award

Deloitte Technology Fast 500

Asia Pacific 2005

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Possible Applications with Wi-Fi on Steroids

Wireless Deployment stories with Wi-Fi on Steroids

Conclusion

Agenda

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Challenges for Service Providers in Wireless Network

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Challenges for Service Providers in Wireless Network

• Bandwidth Limitations

• Bandwidth Management for Differentiating Services

• Traffic Prioritization for Demanding Applications

• Radio Interference

• Security of Wireless Networks

• End-to-End Connectivity

• Network Architecture Design

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Possible Applications with

Wi-Fi on Steroids

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Wireless Broadband Possibilities

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Wireless Broadband Possibilities

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Wireless Deployment Stories using

Wi-Fi on Steroids

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Unwiring Canary Islands, Spain Island Wide Wireless Broadband in Fuerteventura

• Wi-Fi connects rural communities & businesses

• Backhaul links spanning up to 14 miles (22 km)

• Enterprise and residential clients

• Last mile connectivity from satellite Internet feed

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Wireless Broadband Venture in Fuerteventura - Background and Deployment

Fuerteventura, lying at over 620 miles (1000km) from Spain and just over 62 miles (100km) from Morocco is a large island with an area of 668 square miles The spine of hills running down the centre of the island provides the ideal location for situating telecommunications masts giving clear Line of Sight (LOS) From their base in the capital, Puerto del Rosario, Telmax has installed five backhaul links using the airHaul™ Nexus connecting Tetir, Antigua, Corralejo, Pozo Negro and Parque Holandes. The distances span 4.4 miles (7 km), 7 miles (11km), 14 miles (22km), 12miles (19km) and 8 miles (13km). The Internet bandwidth is supplied by a satellite link, via the Eutelsat. Using the airPoint™ Nexus and airBridge™ Total as access points and client devices, they have quickly set up a broadband wireless network, extending their network coverage to beyond the main towns. The subscription cost? As little as 31 euros a month

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Now servicing hundreds of customers, Telmax plans to offer not just broadband Internet connectivity but also IP telephone services, TV and video on demand, email, web hosting and

videoconferencing capabilities.

Telmax is now planning to further expand their network coverage by over 300% in Fuerteventura by deploying 20 more backhaul links using 40 airHaul Nexus radios together with the airPoint and airBridge- Total as access points and client devices. The success of their current deployment has spread beyond Fuerteventura; Telmax has been receiving calls from Lanzarote, another island near Fuerteventura to provide

broadband Internet to the rural areas.

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Unwiring Villages in India E-Learning & e-Governance for Rural Schools

Village School 3

Village School 2

Village School 1Bhimavaram (AP State)

New Delhi

Video Conference

Video Conference

• Rural broadband enables teleconferencing in village schools for e-Learning & adult education

• e-Government support in agriculture & health

• Low power & cost requirement

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Presidential Seal of Approval for Indian Village Wireless Connectivity ProjectThe Byrraju Foundation worked together with Venmak Technologies, one of smartBridges’ Partners in India, and Gemini Communications to implement the project. The area is very rural with limited infrastructure. The villages are surrounded by an extensive system of lakes which makes installing normal wired connections from Bhimavaram to the other villages very difficult. Hence, the decision was made to go wireless. Bhimavaram, the main village and hub, has a leased line Internet connection to the state capital, Hyderabad, about 285 miles (450 km) away and is named as Base Station 1. From Bhimaravam, smartBridges access points, the airPoint Nexus, provides coverage to various sectors of villages.Two other base stations were established as repeaters at two different villages, each covering a sector. They are connected via wireless backhaul links using the airHaul Nexus to Bhimavaram.

The backhaul link distances span about 11 miles (18 km).

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Each of the villages uses the airClient Nexus as a client device which is installed in the local Ashwini Center. They are able to obtain the full 6 Mbps on the links which span on average between 3-5 miles (6-8 km) with one link as long as 12.6 miles (20 km)

and still able to obtain 1 Mbps of throughput.

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Unwiring IraqVSAT Operator Extends Reach & Provides Triple Play

• VSAT operator extends services to connect a whole city in Northern Iraq

• Enabling VoIP in areas with poor telephone voice quality

• Bandwidth Management to provide different services to Internet Cafes, businesses and residents

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Unwiring Iraq for One Nation

Onenation Satcom, based in northern Iraq, provides Internet access through VSAT. However, this is too expensive, the bandwidth is limited. To quickly extend their market and provide more affordable access, Onenation turned to smartBridges’ latest Nexus series of wireless radios for last mile connectivity.

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With their new wireless network, they are now providing broadband Internet to businesses and residents in Kirkuk, an important city with over one million residents and the base for many foreign companies. The economy is picking up and there is a huge demand for the services that Onenation Satcom is providing. To find out how Onenation Satcom met these demands

Onenation Satcom Ltd is based in Arbil with several branches in other cities like Kirkuk and Sulaymaniah. Their Kirkuk City office building, containing administrative offices, technical support center and an Internet Café is situated centrally. They provide satellite, wireless and dialup or ADSL Internet access to businesses and residents. Their market size is estimated at 15,000 subscribers for the whole of Northern Iraq.

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3 airPoint Nexus installed on a 75 ft (25 m) tower at Onenation Satcom’s building. These access points provide coverage for businesses and residents in the whole of Kirkuk City

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Unwiring Australian FarmsFarm Area Network for Remote Operation & Telemetry

• Wireless network for Australian Rice Research Institute to operate farm equipment & relay research data collected by telemetry units

• Mobile Hot Spot with CPE mounted on tractor

• Web-based management interface for remote management of radios

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Wireless Farm Area Network for Rice Field Research

The Rice Research Australia Pty Ltd (RRAPL) needed to conduct detailed remote monitoring of rice fields in Jerilderie, near Wagga in New South Wales, to determine the best conditions for commercial rice production. They installed two Remote Telemetry Units (RTU) as well as various field sensors to capture this information but needed a communications network to relay the Information to the RRAPL office. The network will also be used to remotely control various equipment used in farming. URSYS, a specialist in satellite and radio telecommunications, was charged with providing this network. They decided on a wireless farm area network which is mobile, could be set up quickly, need no cables to be laid, and most importantly,

could be remotely managed.

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They created a wireless network providing blanket broadband coverage across the entire farm. So researchers can securely access and control devices via a standard web browser from anywhere in the world and receive log reports and device alarms via email or even SMS.The airPoint Nexus, the smartBridges access point used in this deployment, is a rugged device that is designed for Near Line of Sight deployments and provides scalable and robust last mile wireless infrastructure. The web based management interface makes it perfect for telemetry uses as it allows for remote management of the device.”

URSYS designed and integrated the 2.4 GHz radio network using two airPoint Nexus as access points and 6 airClient Nexus as client devices to connect the two RTUs back to the RRAPL office as well as other locations such as the Seed Shed and the Weigh station. These links, some up to 2.5 miles (4 km) in length, formed the backbone of the Farm Area Network or FAN that connects the RRAPL’s computers to the Remote Telemetry Units, the Weigh Station and their Seed Shed operation. URSYS was also able to connect the main RRAPL tractor to sense and connect to the nearest access point within the FAN, effectively creating a mobile Hot Spot for Internet access for in-field personnel.

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Unwiring Rainforests in IndonesiaRemote Camps Connected by Long Distance Backhaul Links

• 29 backhaul links spanning up to 34 miles (55 km)

• VoIP, videoconferencing and data applications for 1000s of camp workers

• High reliability network with minimum truck roll

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Wireless Bridges across Indonesian Rainforests

JalaWave, an enterprising wireless ISP based in Bandung, West Java in Indonesia, was given a challenging deployment in the middle of dense rainforests in Sumatra, one of the main islands of Indonesia. Their customer, the biggest Indonesian company in the forestry industry, had camps located deep in the Sumatran rainforests which needed to be quickly provided with telephony and Internet for the thousands of workers based in these camps. The wireless network would be the only communication link between the remote camps and the main head office which serves as headquarters. Distances between camps to the local headquarters ranged from six to hundreds of miles (ten to hundreds of kilometers) but no repeaters could be used as they would be unguarded and hence present a security concern.

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they installed 29 long distance backhaul links of up to 34.2 miles (55km) Overcoming Line of Sight (LoS) issues, tower height limitations, inaccessible locations that could only be reached by long hours in four wheel drive vehicles, JalaWave succeeded in connecting the camps using smartBridges airHaul Nexus and airPoint PRO Outdoor. They built a reliable Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) to provide telephony, email,

Internet access and even video conferencing.

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Unwiring Pretoria, South AfricaBroadband Access for Colleges

Pretoria, South Africa

• Colleges linked together for Internet and WAN connectivity

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Wi-Fi Bridges Mountain for South African College

Colleges and universities see providing broadband Internet access as a necessity given the increasing use of the Internet for teaching and research. Providing high speed connectivity gives a key competitive advantage in the crowded education industry, where students base their choices on how well connected the schools are to the Information Age. However,

finding the right kind of connectivity for a multi-campus school is not easy.

Tshwane North College consists of 5 campuses with distances between them ranging from 1.2 miles (2 km) to 25 miles (41 km). None of the campuses has a clear Line of Sight (LOS) to each other as there are office buildings and natural mountains between them. Before calling in Takalane, the communication infrastructure consisted of a mixture of leased and ISDN lines running between the campuses that provided a maximum throughput of 128Kbps.

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The ISDN connections between campuses were too slow to allow for more than one user to log in to the servers at the main campus, which is where registration and billing records are kept. The ISDN throughput was around 6 Kbps and one terminal server session required 20 Kbps. This made it impossible to even transfer a photo and caused frequent time-outs on the network. So all registration and billing transactions were saved in the local campus servers and then transferred by the IT

department personnel to the main campus at the end of the day.

This was a round trip by car of 63 miles (100 km) per day. Therefore, the goal set by the school’s IT department was to improve the communications between the campuses to provide real time information and allow remote management of servers while keeping the costs involved at a minimum.

Attie’s solution was simple; deploy Wi-Fi backhaul links for Intranet and Internet sharing. He thereby not only improved the connectivity between the campuses but actually decreased the costs involved. They provide up to 200 times more

bandwidth for the cost of one year’s leasing of infrastructure.”

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Conclusion

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Conclusion

Wi-Fi on Steroids is well proven and available today Economical choice with a large installed base

– One of the most successful industry standards in history and experiencing rapid progress with newer extensions to enhance performance.

– Proven for “Last Hundred Mile” connectivity

– Cost-effective technology and a smarter choice for connectivity in the African continent.

Answer: future proof by selecting products which allow co-existenceof currently available matured technology with new wireless

technologies

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Thank You

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