GigaBeam Receives Additional Order for WiFiber Links

(Business News & Technology News, 22 Jun 2007)

GigaBeam Corp. has received a purchase order for two additional WiFiber wireless fiber links from GMG Solutions Pty Ltd, one of its resellers in Australia. The links are expected to be deployed as part of a communications network for a municipal government in Sydney, Australia.

Lou Slaughter, GigaBeam's Chairman and CEO, stated: "We are very pleased with this repeat order from GMG and their efforts in developing the Australian market. This order underscores the success we have had with GMG in pioneering rule making for 70GHz/80GHz spectrum in Australia. We see significant business potential in Australia for our WiFiber product, particularly in the major cities across the country. The support for allocating the 70GHz to 80GHz spectrum for commercial use by the Australian government and commitment by customers to our WiFiber product gives our company and our product considerable credibility throughout the South East Asia market and will leverage our entry into countries in the region."

GigaBeam WiFiber products operate in the 71GHz to 76GHz and 81GHz to 86GHz upper millimeter wave spectrum bands. This portion of the spectrum has been authorized by the Federal Communications Commission and the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) and certain other countries for licensed wireless commercial use. Use of these frequency bands for commercial use was pioneered by GigaBeam's founders.

GigaBeam's technology, utilizing these large blocks of contiguous spectrum, enables multi-Gigabit-per-second communications through use of Gigabit Ethernet and other standard protocols. The current speed achieved by GigaBeam's WiFiber G-1.25 product series is full duplex at 1Gbps (equivalent to 647 T1 lines or 1,000 DSL connections) which supports GigE protocol. GigaBeam previously announced its WiFiber G-2.7 series, to be released in the second half of 2007, and which is designed to operate at 2.7Gbps. The protocols to be supported by the G-2.7 product series include 2 x GigE (2 x 1Gbps); OC-48 / STM-16 (2.48Gbps); SMPTE 292M (1.48 Gbps), ADS/Digivance, and both 1 and 2Gbps Fiber Channel (2 x 1 Fiber Channel OR 1 x 2 Fiber Channel). GigaBeam also plans deployment of future products capable of 10Gbps utilizing either the 10 Gigabit Ethernet or OC-192 protocol standards.

GigaBeam's WiFiber technology is similar to terrestrial fiber in terms of speed and reliability. WiFiber has a substantial advantage over terrestrial fiber because WiFiber can be rapidly deployed and costs less to deploy than terrestrial fiber. Terrestrial fiber can take months to deploy and also require significant regulatory and environmental approvals prior to installation.

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