It was announced today that CXS and Proxim had deployed a wireless system to residents in the county of Renfrewshire in Scotland. The wireless system enables users of the service to benefit from online learning and general e-commerce facilities such as online banking.
Renfrewshire Council was looking for a sustainable solution to provide citizens with residential high speed broadband. The programme, called the Digital Inclusion Project, was designed to cover an area of around 5 square kilometres. Responses to the council’s tender included broadband vendors offering hard-wired solutions. CXS, however, put forward a proposal for a wireless solution, which was 1/10th the cost of hard-wired solutions. Having reviewed proposals, the council decided to work with CXS due to the economic advantages of the wireless solution compared to fixed line proposals suggested by other vendors.
The implementation called for a large and robust network. CXS delivered by using 70 Proxim Access Points to cover over 2,600 households and 25 point-to-point and point-to-multipoint links for backhaul to a 30Mbps internet ‘pipe’. The 30Mbps wireless backhaul extends over 12 kilometres from Johnstone in Renfrewshire to Shortroods at Glasgow Airport.
Gordon Giles, Renfrewshire Digital Inclusion Manager, stated: “This has been a new and innovative project. I’m not aware of many other initiatives that provide wireless and mesh broadband into residential homes to allow social inclusion covering an area of 5 square kilometres.”
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