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Broadband Internet

What is Broadband Internet? Broadband Internet is a bidirectional Internet connection with sufficient speed¹ to support full motion video². Bidirectional is important because many applications have as much value in their ability to send large quantities of data in real time as to receive it. Internet is important because it implies the freedom to connect to any network and any application. » Read More

Indoor Wireless

The great benefit of wireless is not the ability to do new things; it is the ability to do the same old things from anywhere. This freedom from place is a powerful force multiplier and fast becoming essential in the business world. Wherever you go, you want to stay in touch. This ability. Too often buildings lack the ability to connect to a wireless LAN or use commercial wireless services, such as mobile phones and wide-area data networks. » Read More

Open Networks

In a packet-based network like the Internet where everything is just data, the application is abstracted from the network. For example, a telephone network is not a network that just happens to carry voice, it is a network created to carry voice. Therefore, the network is the application. Anything that is not voice, such as dial-up modems, must be transformed to look like voice so the network can use it. But because not all data behaves like voice, this can be inefficient. » Read More

Wireless Mesh

A traditional wireless network consists of terminals and base-stations. Terminals and base-stations talk to each other, but terminals can't talk to terminals and base-stations can't talk to base-stations. In a Mesh topology, everything can potentially talk to everything. In addition, devices can serve as relays for other devices. If a terminal can't see a base-station but can see another terminal, and that terminal can see the base-station, everything is good to go. This means that non-line of site can be achieved even at higher frequencies that cannot typically support such operations. » Read More

WiMax

WiMax is a buzzword right now. It is a standards-based approach that is applicable to a far larger range of circumstances than 3G¹, yet can deliver the same or better functionality. When WiFi Mesh is not applicable, WiMax is most likely the best solution. » Read More

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News and Events: Stratum Broadband to help city of Burlington assess viability of Burlington Telecom
The seven-member committee created by the Burlington City Council in late December to assess Burlington Telecom's financial health and prospects, held its third meeting Tuesday and voted unanimously to hire two expert consulting companies. The committee made clear it intends to make arrangements with Stratum Broadband of Medway, Mass., and Hiawatha Broadband Communications of Winona, Minn., to begin their work as soon as possible. The committee, whose recommendations will likely determine BT's future, amended its schedule and, with the consultants settled on, intends to provide the full council with a picture of BT's viability by Jan. 29. ...Read Full Article...; Press Release: Virgin Islands Awarded $1.4 Million Grant for Broadband Mapping and Planning
United States Virgin Islands (January 3, 2010) - Governor John P. deJongh, Jr. said this weekend that the Virgin Islands has been awarded approximately $1.4 million from the National Telecommunications Information Administration of the Department of Commerce under their Broadband Technologies Opportunity Program (BTOP). The monies will fund mapping of the territory’s existing broadband network and funding for planning the expansion of the territory’s telecommunications facilities.

“This competitive federal stimulus grant award will allow us to begin the process that will result in our being able to provide reliable broadband services to the territory’s residents and businesses. This is a key initiative towards bringing the critical infrastructure to further spur economic growth in the territory and enable our community to participate in communications and internet worlds without limitation,” deJongh said.; Press Release: Report Cites Need for Better Broadband Service - CBN Connect Project Seeks to Bring Vital Services to the North Country
PLATTSBURGH, NY (October 10, 2007) – A consultant’s report recommends the construction of a fiber optic and wireless broadband network for Clinton, Essex, and Franklin counties that would be a wholesale “carrier's carrier,” providing open services broadband transport for existing and new broadband providers. It would not provide retail services to end users. The research project was funded by federal grants through the offices of Senator Hillary Clinton and Congressman John McHugh.
The report, commissioned by the Research Foundation of SUNY on behalf of the CBN Connect (community broadband network) Advisory Board, and conducted by Stratum Broadband and Xit Telecom, provides market research and needs analysis for the CBN Connect project.; May 24, 2007
An article at thepheonix.com by Matt Jerzyk explores the economic and political impact of the state-wide RIWINs wireless program in Rhode Island.; January 16, 2007
The Business Innovation Factory today announced its plans for statewide rollout of the Rhode Island Wireless Innovation Networks (RI-WINs), an effort to make Rhode Island the first state in the country with a border-to-border broadband network.