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Carlson Wireless Launches New IP Radio Line
ARCATA, CA - Carlson Wireless Technologies, Inc. has announced the launch of its new Ethernet Bridge (EB) network family of IP wireless products, promising high quality and reliability under the most challenging conditions at an extremely competitive price.
Carlson’s new EB radios deliver wireless Ethernet data, video and VoIP over a broadband microwave system for a wide range of business, public safety and community applications.
James R. Carlson, founder and CEO of Carlson Wireless Technologies, pointed to the products’ versatility, reliability and range of applications for wireless communications worldwide.
”We’re excited about how well our new IP system integrates into and complements our existing product lines of efficient and virtually maintenance-free wireless communications solutions,” Carlson said. “These units offer customers new options for a wide variety of changing needs and demands.”
With the addition of the Ethernet Bridge IP suite of products to Carlson’s existing line of efficient TDM technologies, Carlson offers compatible voice-centric and data-centric systems to meet customers’ most critical needs.
The IP suite of products range from 2.4 GHz units to create WiFi hotspots linking roaming wireless laptops and radios, to 4.9 Ghz products for public safety applications, to 5.8 GHz products for enterprise, public safety and government, point-to-point and other unlicensed applications.
Richard W. Salzman, Director of Business Development for Carlson Wireless, says the company is about more than its high-quality products. “What we believe sets Carlson Wireless apart is our service after the sale,” he said. “We don’t just sell radios. We’re here to provide solutions for our clients, and that includes continuing, responsive technical support.”
Carlson Wireless products are best known for their reliability and high quality communications solutions tailored for remote areas. The new EB line has been proven very reliable in rigorous field-testing over the past year.
Whether Carlson products have been put to work in the hilly Appalachian coal country of south-central Kentucky, or along the rugged redwood coast of northern California, customers find Carlson equipment solves their wireless communications challenges.
In Cumberland, KY, Joe Cornett, owner and CEO of Cornett Electronics, has been using Carlson’s EB network to help coal and natural gas companies communicate more effectively with Carlson’s IP-based 5.8 GHz systems.
“The benefit of the Carlson system is real fast point-to-point communications. The equipment is reliable and easy to use,” Cornett said. “There aren’t a lot of technical demands—they’re easy to configure and real dependable.”
On the other side of the country, 101Netlink uses Carlson equipment to provide wireless service along a 150-mile stretch of the Redwood Highway between Ukiah and Eureka, CA.
Seth Johannesen, 101Netlink’s Network Manager, likes Carlson's Ethernet Bridge IP radios for multiple broadband applications for wholesale and retail customers in both rural and urban settings along the Highway 101 corridor.
Perhaps most important, Johannesen said, is that Carlson's EB network features dependable technical information and true real-time diagnostics and statistics. This is critical to 101Netlink’s extensive network-monitoring system (NMS) of largely rural customer base.
"Real-time data is essential," Johannesen said, "and these Carlson units offer that."
Although much of 101Netlink's territory is rural and remote—the traditional application for wireless—Johannesen said he also uses Carlson’s EB equipment in more urban areas, where "wireless is very competitive and will out-perform cable and DSL."
Carlson systems can use a range of power sources, including solar, which means they can be located anywhere, on or off the grid. “We can beat out our competitors because the Carlson equipment is so sturdy, so reliable, and operates with such low power demands that it can function efficiently on solar power,” CEO James Carlson said.
The IP products are designed for wireless service providers, government, public safety, private business and enterprise applications, and they can link seamlessly into security systems to provide video and data links in public areas.
“We have the whole spectrum of customer wireless needs covered,” Carlson added.
Carlson engineers have been leaders in the wireless arena since 1986, when affordable,low-cost wireless technologies first emerged, and they remain leaders in developingdependable cost-effective solutions to wireless communications in the informationage.
