Wi-Fi Network Completed in the Palestinian Territories

Wi-Fi vendor, Wavion and Coolnet, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the Palestinian Territories, have announced the completion of a large scale Wi-Fi deployment based on Wavion WBS-2400 Base Stations in the Palestinian Territories.

"As a service provider in the Palestine Territories, our goal is to cover our cities and towns with Wi-Fi and enable reliable broadband internet connectivity to our customers," said Hani Alami, the CEO of Coolnet. "After a thorough examination of the existing Wi-Fi solutions, we have chosen Wavion's WBS-2400 because of its powerful and unique beamforming technology which enabled us to deploy our network with lower CAPEX and offer high quality internet services at lower prices to our customers."

The WBS-2400 base stations where installed in the cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem and Hebron and provide internet connectivity for business and residential users with 512KBps and 1MBps.

"We are proud to be selected by Coolnet for their large scale metro Wi-Fi deployment," said Eran Kaplan, EVP of Sales and Marketing. "It is yet another testimonial to our superior performance in terms of range, indoors penetration, non-line-of-sight connectivity, and to its unique value proposition for city-wide deployments."

Posted to the site on 19th May 2009