Loea's 75th E-Band Wireless Link Purchased by New Mexico Tech

(Product News, 11 May 2007)

Loea Corp., the first company to develop and sell high data rate E-band wireless communications products, has announced the sale of its 75th wireless link operating at data rates above 1Gbps to New Mexico Tech in Socorro, New Mexico. Loea's millimeter-wave radios provide extremely high speed, high reliability communications for multiple channels of voice, video and data over line of sight distances up to a few miles.

Dr. Daniel H. Lopez, President of New Mexico Tech, said: "We needed a way to move real time high speed video imagery from field tests at our Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (EMRTC) facility to researchers, students, and others, with communications equipment that could be repositioned quickly for different tests. Loea's products are perfect for our application in terms of data rate, range, and ease of installation and alignment."

Adm. Tom Fargo, USN (Ret.), Loea's Chairman and CEO, stated: "We are really excited to reach the milestone of shipping our 75th pair of Loea gigabit radios, validating manufacturability and reliability through our 3rd generation Loea 2700 product. We are thrilled that this link will be installed in the state of New Mexico, which leads the nation in the deployment of Loea's E-band wireless equipment. Clearly there is a vision in New Mexico to excel in bringing reliable wireless communications to its government infrastructure and academic institutions, a vision that we believe other states will emulate."

Loea's E-Band Wireless products operate in the 71GHz to 76GHz and 81GHz to 86GHz millimeter wave bands. Loea's current products, the L2500, L2700 and L2800, allow full duplex data rates up to 1.5Gbps with 99.999% weather availability at distances greater than 1km. In addition to standard gigabit Ethernet, Loea¡¯s products support protocols used for Distributed Antenna System transport, uncompressed High Definition Television feed, and other proprietary systems. Loea's products can be used for Enterprise Connectivity, Cellular and Wi-Max/WiFi Backhaul, Remote Data Storage, First Responder Communications, and other applications where they provide a low cost alternative or backup to fiber optic connections.

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