RAYAWAVE INC. PROVIDES MISSION CRITICAL GIG-E BACKHAUL FOR STURM
FOODS
San Diego, CA
– July 29, 2007 – Rayawave Inc., a supplier of gigabit outdoor
wireless bridging solutions,
today
announced the deployment of two Gig-E AirebeamTM
millimeterwave point-to-point links at Sturm Foods
. When
municipal authorities informed Sturm Foods that they would need
to do some major road work close to the fiber conduit connecting
their headquarters to their operations center with Gigabit
Ethernet connectivity, they turned to Rayawave for their
AirebeamTM wireless fiber solution.
“The loss of
our gigabit connection due to terrestrial fiber cuts from any
source, including backhoes and bulldozers working in the area,
would have a huge impact on our business”, stated Larry
Katerzynske, CIO for Sturm Foods. “Our network runs mission
critical applications and we needed an alternative communication
solution that could be implemented quickly, cost-effectively,
and provide the gigabit speeds supported by our routers”.
After
extensively testing the performance of the AirebeamTM
system, the Sturm Foods IT department performed some internal
re-routing of the existing fiber run on the Sturm Foods campus
that could not have been done without having an alternative high
capacity network path in place. “The overall performance and
reliability of the Rayawave system enabled us to perform the
fiber re-routing process flawlessly”, explained Katerzynske “and
the Rayawave AirebeamTM system has exceeded our
expectations with regards to performance and latency.”
The links for
Sturm Foods were installed by Fiber in Air LLC, a suburban
Chicago Rayawave Certified Value Added Reseller. “Our site
survey identified an impediment to a line-of-sight connection,
and identified a nearby water tower as a relay point, using a
back-to-back configuration for completing a the gigabit wireless
connection” reported Kyle Robinson, Operations Manager for Fiber
in Air. “As we anticipated, the configuration worked well and,
most importantly, our client had the connection they needed.”
Rayawave's
high capacity and low latency gigabit wireless bridging
solutions are ideally suited for a wide variety of point to
point wireless applications in the enterprise, healthcare,
education, public safety and government as well as service
provider markets.
The AirebeamTM
technology performance is similar to terrestrial fiber in terms
of bandwidth, security and reliability but it can be deployed
within days utilizing the quick and inexpensive internet based
licensing system implemented by the FCC. ”The deployment of the
AirebeamTM system at Sturm Foods is a prime example
of how the Rayawave gigabit outdoor wireless bridging solution
can be used in a mission critical application where network
downtime is not an option.” says Heinz Willebrand, President and
CEO of Rayawave.
A case study
for this Sturm Foods install is available for download from the
Rayawave website at www.rayawave.com.
About Rayawave Inc.
Rayawave Inc. is a leading innovator of gigabit wireless point
to point network bridging solutions utilizing the 70 GHz band.
Rayawave products provide fixed wireless last mile access for
campus or enterprise building-to-building connectivity. The
products are also used in infrastructure applications such as
broadband cellular networks and wireless backhaul for WiMAX or
WiFi networks.
For more information, please visit
www.rayawave.com.
About Sturm
Foods
Sturm Foods is based in Manawa, Wisconsin and is the leading
global dry grocery manufacturer for both the retail and
foodservice industries since 1905.
www.sturmfoods.com
About Fiber In
Air
Fiber in Air specializes in designing, implementing and
maintaining "fiber in air" high bandwidth connections for
enterprise, health care, education, and government. Solutions
provided by Fiber in Air do not depend on buried optical fiber
or twisted pair copper lines and utilize both licensed as well
as unlicensed radio frequencies or lasers.
www.fiberinair.com
