Business Telephone News: BelAir Networks Partners With Citymesh For Wireless Networks Deployments
Innovative Belgian Startup Standardizes on BelAir Networks Broadband Wireless Mesh Solutions
BelAir Networks, the leading provider of mobile broadband mesh networks, today announced that Citymesh nv, an innovative wireless solutions provider headquartered in Belgium, has standardized on BelAir Networks award-winning wireless mesh network solutions for industry-leading broadband wireless mesh networks.
Citymesh nv has specialized in building large-scale wireless broadband networks. They have already deployed many wireless networks including city coverage, leisure parks, and off-shore deployments.
“BelAir Networks delivers a comprehensive product portfolio that offers the performance, scalabilty, carrier-class capacity and reliability that we want for our best-in-class networks,” stated Mitch De Geest, Citymesh nv Co-Founder. “As a company, we are growing quickly with new funding, senior management, and expanded facilities – BelAir Networks is the best company to support our rapid growth and commitment to carrier-class network performance.”
Citymesh nv deploys BelAir Networks wireless mesh networks to support high-speed internet access, voice over IP (VoIP), video and data services including Real Time Location Services (RTLS), and telemetry applications. BelAir Networks equipment is ruggedized to handle extreme temperatures, weather and movement making the product portfolio ideal for even the most challenging deployments including off-shore environments where the products are used to provide communications between vessels and platforms to facilitate operational decision making.
Citymesh nv was founded in Belgium in 2006 with a singular mission to provide the best wireless networks. The company is quickly gaining momentum as a leading wireless network expert.
“We are pleased to partner with Citymesh, an innovative and fast growing service provider,” said Dave Park, VP of Product Marketing, BelAir Networks. “Our networks are providing high performance wireless access in leading cities around the world and we look forward to supporting Citymesh in municipal, hospitality and industrial deployments.”
Citymesh nv executive Vincent Grymonprez will present at the OTC 2008 conference in Houston, Texas’ Reliant Center on the use of wireless mesh networks in off-shore applications. His presentation ‘Offshore Communication Mesh Networks’ will take place on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 3:30 CST in the Flanders Investment and Trade agency’s Booth #5716. OTC is the premier offshore industry event for professionals, service industries and suppliers to gather and discuss common issues of ocean resource development. http://www.otcnet.org/2008/
BelAir Networks is the leading provider of mobile broadband mesh network solutions with more than 450 deployments worldwide, including leading cities such as Minneapolis, London and Toronto as well as high-profile venues such as Lincoln Center in New York and Dolphin Stadium in Miami and in mission-critical Defense applications including the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Charleston.
Seamlessly operated through the BelAirOS operating system software and managed by BelViewNMS, BelAir Networks offers the industry’s most comprehensive product portfolio with the highest capacity, lowest latency and fastest roaming speeds. Supporting Wi-Fi, WiMAX, 4.9 GHz Public Safety, 5.9 GHz ITS, and 4.4 GHz Military spectrum bands, the portfolio includes the flagship four-radio BelAir200 Wireless Multi-service Switch Router, the BelAir200D for Defense applications, the three-radio BelAir100T Wireless Mesh Node, the BelAir100M Mobile Mesh Node, the dual-radio BelAir100 Multi-service Node and BelAir100D, the single- or dual-radio BelAir100C Multi-service Node featuring point-to-multipoint backhaul, and the strand-mounted BelAir100S.
About BelAir Networks
BelAir Networks is the first company to offer scalable, mobile wireless broadband mesh networking solutions with the highest quality for data, voice and video. The company teams with world-class global partners to deploy proven, cost-effective wireless broadband mesh networks. BelAir’s wireless networking solutions are built on the only multi-service architecture for municipal wireless broadband deployments of Wi-Fi, WiMAX and 3G Cellular networks. Built specifically for outdoor-in deployments, BelAir Networks’ patented solution delivers the lowest cost per user and deploys in days, blending into the physical infrastructure of downtown business districts, hotels and resorts, and campuses. Founded in 2001, BelAir Networks is a privately held company. For more info, visit http://www.belairnetworks.com.
About Citymesh nv
Citymesh nv is a telecommunications firm specializing in designing and deploying large-scale wireless mesh networks. Citymesh nv was founded in May 2006 by Mitch De Geest, Frederik Demets, Peter-Jan Pertry, Sven de Brabander and Freek Pauwels with the intention of delivering city communication networks based on the multi-radio Wi-Fi Mesh technology. For more information about Citymesh nv, please visit http://www.citymesh.be/.