Broadband Internet

Broadband InternetWhat 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

Building 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

Clouds 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

Mesh Topology 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

Radio Tower 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
News and Events
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.
September 5, 2006
A study of state and local government technology concludes that Rhode Island leads the nation in wireless-networks investment.
August 7, 2006
Stratum Broadband will assist RPM, an information technology consulting group, with a wireless feasibility study for the City of Springfield, Massachusetts.
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