National Broadband to Build Wireless along WilTel's Fiber Routes

National Broadband, a start-up carrier based in Aspen, Colorado, unveiled plans to rollout out wireless broadband services to communities along the fiber network footprint of WilTel Communications. Using both licensed and unlicensed spectrum, National Broadband will deploy a master base station at each of 422 optical regeneration stations, which are located at 40 mile intervals along the nationwide WilTel fiber network. At each of the stations, National Broadband will install a customized optical switch from MRV Communications that is capable of adding/dropping up to 1 Gbps of traffic onto the network. WilTel is providing two fibers to National Broadband for its exclusive use in the deployment. National Broadband uses point-to-point radios to serve regional ISPs, cable companies, independent telcos and large businesses. It also plans to offer point-to-multipoint residential services in some areas. National Broadband also plans to differentiate its network by deploying a new generation of "content processors" from Tariri (an Intel spin-out), telco servers from IBM, and Microsoft 2003 Servers with .NET capabilities. The network will have over 1 petabyte of local storage capacity at start-up. The Tarari processors will offload computationally intense security and media functionality from end-user devices. The .NET functionality will support forthcoming media and presence applications from Microsoft and others.
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