Altai Uses Smart Antenna Technology for Next Generation Municipal WiFi Product
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill., March 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Lowell Todd, President of Heartland Communications, and Chi Hung Lin, CEO and President of Altai Technologies, announced today that Heartland Communications will become an authorized US distributor of Altai Technologies' WiFi cellular base station -- a new generation of metropolitan wireless broadband product based on smart antenna technology.
Utilizing the knowledge gained from developing the remote sensing capabilities used by NASA to view Mars' surface, engineers at Altai Technologies have created smart antenna signal processing technologies for a longer range, less expensive alternative for the hot municipal WiFi market. Now being used throughout the world, the Altai Technologies' A8 base station has been proven effective in both urban and remote applications.
Todd feels this is a major breakthrough for municipal applications. "People who live in small-to-medium sized communities have limited and often expensive choices for broadband access," he said. "This solution allows municipalities to provide a cost-effective, necessary service to their citizens while providing a solid return on their investment. This is the kind of responsible win-win solution most municipalities are looking for."
Heartland Communications brings the ease of a turnkey installation of this new technology coupled with the on-going support needed to seamlessly integrate the system into homes and businesses.
The Altai Difference
With Altai, setting up a WiFi cellular base system is easy and much less expensive compared to conventional mesh systems. With today's standard mesh technology, roughly 15 to 30 units are required to provide a square mile of coverage. Altai's higher reach technology requires significantly fewer units per square mile of coverage with savings of up to 40% over conventional mesh systems.
Chi Hung Lin, CEO and President of Altai Technologies, was enthusiastic about bringing the Altai products to the US with Heartland Communications. "The US market is perfect for Altai's cellular WiFi base station," said Lin, "with large geographic spaces, an educated, technologically 'tuned-in' population and municipal managers with the drive to deliver superior service that is reliable and extremely reasonable. We are pleased to be able to partner with a company like Heartland that has the know-how to market, deliver and maintain our system to our new base."
"We are ready to market and deliver this technology today," said Todd. "That is one of the great components of this partnership: with their product and our market and service experience, we are set to go now."
About Heartland Communications
Heartland Communications, headquartered in Crystal Lake, IL., was created in 1995 after its parent company, ComTech Paging was sold to Paging Network, Inc. Since that time the network has grown to include coverage in five midwestern states. Their innovative marketing and competitive pricing have allowed them to maintain solid growth in their midwestern markets. Heartland's management team, headed by CEO Jerry Nelson and President Lowell Todd, has been thoroughly integrated into the mobile communications industry since the inception of cell phones at Motorola.
For more information: www.wifimycity.com
About Altai Technologies
Altai Technologies is a high technology company focused in design, development and marketing of innovative outdoor wireless broadband solutions. The flagship product, the A8 WiFi cellular base station is mainly deployed in outdoor environments to provide city-wide, WiFi coverage for users to enjoy ubiquitous broadband connections. By making use of the smart antenna technologies and advanced signal processing algorithm, the base station can effectively provide much larger coverage than other WiFi base stations available in the market.
The A8 WiFi cellular base station has been proven in the field in various regions and countries, including cities in the US, China, Europe, Middle East and Asian-Pacific countries.
Altai has recently closed its Series A equity financing with a total amount of US $10 million. The Company has a strong management team with in-depth experience from leading communications service providers and equipment vendors, and the R&D expertise spans the whole spectrum of RF and networking systems.
For more information: www.altaitechnologies.com
Source: Heartland Communications
CONTACT: Lowell Todd, +1-815-479-6450, ext. 109, or
Lowell@wifimycity.com, for Heartland; or Annie Loi of Altai,
annieloi@altaitechnologies.com
Web site: http://www.altaitechnologies.com/
Web site: http://www.wifimycity.com/
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