Barrett Xplore Signs Contract for Motorolas Canopy-TM- Wireless Broadband27 December 2004
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Barrett Xplore today announce a multi-million dollar equipment contract for the deployment of a wireless broadband network in specified cities throughout Canada using Motorola's Canopy Advantage(TM) Platform. The contract has an initial term of
three years and can be extended through 2009 if sales targets are met. If
extended, the contract could be valued at up to US$53 million.
Barrett Xplore, through its Xplornet brand, plans to establish the first
wireless broadband network across Canada. This agreement expands their
existing Canopy network that has been operational for the past year.
The Canopy Advantage Platform is the latest step in Motorola's rollout of
next generation Canopy wireless broadband products. With the Canopy Advantage
product portfolio, network operators can grow their business and take
advantage of increased speed, performance and quality of service needed to
deliver high-quality voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) and high speed data
to enterprise, small office, home office and residential customers.
"We are excited to share in the vision of a wireless network to deliver
voice and data broadband services to unserved and underserved communities
across Canada," said Tony Kobrinetz, vice president and general manager of
Motorola's Canopy Wireless Broadband Group.
Barrett Xplore will continue to roll out its Xplornet wireless broadband
services to businesses, residents and enterprises in suburban areas of
Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Ottawa and Vancouver as well as to Canada's
underserved smaller cities that do not currently have ubiquitous broadband
coverage from either DSL or cable. Xplornet plans to deploy the entire
portfolio of Canopy products, including 900 MegaHertz, 2.4, 5.2 and 5.8
GigaHertz to meet the unique broadband needs across Canada.
"The Canopy wireless broadband solution complements our high-speed
satellite network, allowing us to deliver broadband services to the
underserved and unserved areas of Canada. The economics of the Canopy solution
also enable us to compete against the existing wired technologies like cable
and DSL," said Barrett Xplore Chairman Bill Barrett. "Additionally, the
Motorola Canopy Advantage platform provides a path to license exempt WiMAX
while also protecting our investment in our existing networks."
"Barrett's view of providing wireless broadband coverage to customers
currently not well served throughout Canada is a model that the Canopy
platform fully supports. Barrett Xplore can trust in our roadmap that
incorporates a wireless broadband solution set that is scalable today and
provides for an elegant evolution to future license exempt WiMAX. Our
solution set allows them to offer very high speed data services up to 15
Megabits per second aggregate throughput with toll-quality VoIP," said
Kobrinetz.
Source: PR Newswire
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