Airborne Rural Networks

In a large percentage of big cities, most Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with access to Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) co-location facilities or hybrid fibre coaxial cable systems have done a good job of making broadband Internet connections available to their customers.

However, a large majority of people living in rural areas have been overlooked by the Regional network operators. Communications carriers reluctantly have decided that these rural communities are not worth the investment to bring broadband Internet access to these areas.

The most common reason cited is the high capital expense required to upgrade network equipment and the time it takes to install the new fibre, copper wiring or coaxial cable needed to carry high-speed Internet data traffic to each residential or business location.

The good news is that instead of getting wired to the Internet, a growing number of individuals, neighbourhoods and businesses have discovered wireless technology, which is the most cost-effective way to bring high-speed Internet connections to small, medium and large pockets of Internet users that still do not have broadband Internet access.

Airborne's broadband wireless technology is making it possible for users to connect to the Internet at high speeds to receive email, surf web pages, and make cheap calls without modems or phones lines, regardless of location.

Unlike DSL or cable modem networks, which can cost hundreds of thousands to build, broadband wireless networks can be built at a fraction of the price required to build out wired networks.

The Airborne Approach

• Establish cost effective backhaul in an Urban Area
• Select Air Interfaces, WiFi, WiMax or Both
• Daisy chain Airborne's multi-radio microBTS nodes out across the countryside to the community in need broadband
• Utilise Airborne's self powering nodes where appropriate to provide access to sites where the coverage distance can be increased
• Add extra radios to the microBTS nodes to increase capacity when demand rises