Service Providers Sidestep Local Loop to Deliver Broadband Access
Service providers worldwide can at last provide customers with a broadband Internet service without going through the agony of obtaining local loop network access or the expense of buying radio licenses. The answer comes from PAV Data Systems, the UK's fastest growing technology exporter. PAV has developed a system using broadband optical wireless access technology that can beam 622 Mb/s of capacity from an office block, apartment or street straight into the service provider's existing backbone network. As a result, service providers can provide broadband access directly to businesses and consumers without needing to pass through the incumbent operators' local loop network. And because the technology works in the infra red light spectrum, there's no need to haemorrhage millions on obtaining Government radio licenses. PAV is currently trialling the technology at its test centre in Knowsley and hopes to start shipping the system through its global export network in Q2 2001. "The pace of local loop unbundling, particularly in Europe has been painfully slow. In the UK alone, a growing list of tier 1 and tier 2 carriers have withdrawn from the process, leaving hopes for a broadband Britain, powered by low cost, high speed Internet access, in tatters," explains Chris Emerson, Marketing Director at PAV Data Systems. "Our wireless technology provides an instant, cost-effective, regulation-free solution to the problem. It's already used by mobile operators worldwide to provide secure, high-speed connectivity between base stations and backbone networks. We're now taking the technology into the fixed access arena and trialling solutions that give office blocks and apartments the broadband connectivity they've been waiting for." |
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