WiMAX Coverage for Rural Kansas

­Nex-Tech, a subsidiary of Rural Telephone Service Company has ordered WiMAX network kit from Redline Communications for a multi-city WiMAX roll-out in Kansas USA. Nex-Tech will deploy Redline's RedMAX base stations and customer subscriber units to provide WiMAX coverage in areas that could not be serviced via previous broadband solutions in the past, or where DSL and fiber were not available.

The multi-city WiMAX network will focus primarily on supporting the residential market which accounts for 80% of Nex-Tech's subscriptions, and will include deployments in Hays & Great Bend Kansas.

"Our customers have come to expect a high level of service from Nex-Tech," said Justin McClung, Internet Solutions Manager at Nex-Tech. "Deploying Redline's high capacity 3.65 GHz WiMAX base stations eliminated the issues we encountered using other wireless solutions, including mitigating interference, ensuring high levels of throughput and delivering the Quality of Services (QoS) support we needed for a successful business model. With Redline's 3.65 GHz WiMAX solutions, we can maintain user confidence, reliability and significantly increase upstream and downstream throughput."

Redline's RedMAX AN-100U and AN-100UX base stations and RedMAX SU-O's, (Subscriber Unit's-Outdoor) were installed initially in just 6-8 weeks in areas which required immediate high capacity access. Nex-Tech expects to complete the initial deployments of its WiMAX networks by November 2008.

Posted to the site on 13th October 2008

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Nice

This is exactly the kind of project that will enable SOME kind of reasonable broadband internet access in rural areas. I know that it is often expensive and difficult to roll out DSL to rural areas. However, many WiMAX solutions will be a good solution.

I know that WiMAX works better without line of site than 802.11x technologies do and that it usually has much better range and is far less sensitive to interference. Lets hope that other telcos and community organizations latch on to this technology.

#1 - John Keels - 10/14/2008 - 00:51

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