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Proxim Wireless Corporation has announced that OmniGlobe Networks has selected Proxim's Tsunami MP.11 WiMAX products to provide high-speed, cost-effective Internet access to residents of the Republic of Cyprus. The Tsunami MP.11 was recently awarded a Frost & Sullivan 2006 Product Innovation award for "truly innovative WiMAX solutions," and provides the capabilities of fixed and mobile WiMAX in license-free frequency bands worldwide.

OmniGlobe Networks specializes in providing broadband communications capabilities to communities worldwide that cannot be served via traditional wireline access. The company brings connectivity into a community via a satellite gateway to the Internet, and distributes access to homes and businesses using Proxim's WiMAX products. Such is the case in the cities of Nicosia (the capital, population 206,000) and Kyrenia (population 38,000) in Cyprus.

Traditionally, in this island nation, the waiting time for installation of a telephone line can be as high as five years. Thanks to OmniGlobe and Proxim, residents of Kyrenia and Nicosia have access to sophisticated and cost-effective communications such as Internet access and voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP), with a waiting time of as little as two days.

The MP.11 includes WiMAX features such as a scheduled media access controller, orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), and advanced quality of service (QoS) to optimize delivery of voice, video and data traffic. In addition, the availability of indoor customer premise equipment (CPE) optimizes the economics and, in many cases, ease of installation. Upon deploying the network, OmniGlobe has achieved connectivity between MP.11 base stations and subscriber units at ranges of up to 25 km (15.6 miles), further validating the selection.

"Proxim's focus in WiMAX products has been to lower the barriers to entry to network deployment, thus allowing a wide range of service providers to take advantage of this technology," said Amit Malhotra, vice president of marketing, Proxim Wireless. "OmniGlobe's success has demonstrated that WiMAX is available today to support a service provider's requirements including multiservice infrastructure, a choice of frequency bands, reasonable cost, and ease of installation."