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Wavion announced the deployment of Wavion WBS-2400 Base Stations in the province of San Luis, Argentina. The WBS-2400 will deliver high-speed wireless Internet (Wi-Fi) to the province, its schools and town.

“We are proud to be the pioneers in providing wide-area, free Internet connectivity in Argentina,” said La Punta University Rector and San Luis Minister of Development Alicia Bañuelos. “This is the first deployment in Argentina where Internet connectivity is provided for town-wide coverage. We believe that this project will foster economic development and tourism in the province and will help close the digital divide by enabling the children in the province to access the Internet at school and at their homes.”

Wavion’s powerful WBS-2400 spatially adaptive beamforming base stations provide extended range and higher throughput connectivity to standards-based Wi-Fi clients, such as those embedded in laptops and other notebook computers. Wavion’s Wi-Fi solution requires one-third fewer units than other competing Access Points (APs) to cover the same area, with superior indoor penetration and fewer dead spots.

“We applaud the San Luis province for their vision and initiative,” said Ariel Scaliter, CEO of Xiden Networking, the System Integrator of the project. “We hope that this project will serve as a role model for other provinces in Argentina in providing Internet connectivity to their rural communities.”

“We are proud to be selected by the San Luis province for their pioneering project in Argentina and honored in taking part in their vision and making it a reality,” said Eran Kaplan, Wavion’s executive VP sales and marketing. ”Our superior performance in terms of range, throughput and indoor penetration create a unique value proposition for wide-area broadband coverage and is critical to the success of this project.”