| VIVATO SELECTED BY MORE THAN 25 UNIVERSITIES FOR CAMPUS WI-FI
Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Lincoln University
Join the Growing Number of Campuses to Deploy Vivato Wi-Fi Solutions
SAN MATEO, Calif. - December 14, 2004 - Vivato, a scalable
Wi-Fi systems infrastructure company, today announced that two more
universities - Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Lincoln
University - have deployed its wireless Internet access technology
throughout their campuses. With the new deployments, more than 25
U.S. colleges and universities are now benefiting from Vivato's
innovative approach to Wi-Fi service. Both deployments highlight
Vivato's cost and coverage advantage over conventional Wi-Fi deployments.
Southern Illinois University's main campus in Carbondale has an
enrollment of more than 21,000 students, and a campus covering 1,133
acres. The university is using Vivato's extended-range Wi-Fi systems
to cover both indoor and outdoor spaces, from the 10,000-seat SIUC
Arena where the famed Salukis play, to outdoor campus areas.
"We were looking for the most cost-effective way to provide
Wi-Fi coverage to our facilities staff and students," said
David Bouhl, deputy director of network technology, SIUC. "Vivato's
scalable architecture provided a cost-effective way to cover our
entire campus, allowing students and faculty the luxury of logging
on to the internet and campus intranet just about anywhere they
are, as well as making our facilities staff more efficient. The
facilities people will be using handheld devices to provide instant
status reports on service dispatches and will have the capability
of closing trouble tickets immediately," Bouhl added.
Steve Carol, chief information systems technology officer at Pennsylvania's
Lincoln University, the nation's first higher education institution
for African-Americans, said Vivato's equipment extended network
access to areas not covered by dedicated cables. "The Wi-Fi
system allowed us to connect more computers from more places than
we could before, and provided more students with the ability to
communicate electronically and do research than was possible before,"
he explained.
As an example, Carol noted that many spaces in Lincoln's library
are not wired. With Vivato's installation, students can use laptops
to work nearly everywhere in the building. Similarly, Lincoln's
physics labs generally have no room for dedicated workstations,
Carol said. Laptops allow faculty to save data on central data stores
and access the Internet for research materials from the labs.
Vivato's unique phased array antenna design greatly extends the
reach of industry standard 802.11b and 802.11g signals, enabling
standard Wi-Fi clients to communicate over much greater distances.
In addition, Vivato's technology enables Wi-Fi communications in
demanding environments with multiple other networks and users operating
in the same area. Vivato's unique systems approach and family of
products, including base stations, micro cells, and pico cells,
allow customers to optimize network design for cost, bandwidth and
coverage and offer the lowest total cost of ownership among competing
technologies.
In addition to education, other markets benefiting from Vivato's
unique approach include municipalities, rural communities, government,
warehouses, sea and airports, and large public venues such as arenas
and sports stadiums.
"We are pleased to see so many customers using our products
to deliver wireless data services in demanding environments,"
said Chris DeMarche, senior vice president of marketing and business
development, Vivato. "We continue to provide our customers
with network solutions, leveraging our extended range Wi-Fi products,
to provide the best possible economics and total cost of ownership
through a scalable, systems approach."
About Vivato
Vivato is a wireless systems infrastructure company with technology
that is based upon an innovative signal processing and antenna design.
Vivato's unique system architecture enables cost-effective, large-scale
indoor and outdoor wireless deployments at hotels, airports, seaports,
warehouses, universities, enterprises, and in cities and towns.
Vivato is headquartered in San Mateo, California, with a research
and development center in Spokane, Washington. For more information,
please visit www.vivato.com
or call 650-227-0490.
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