The City and County of Denver has concluded an agreement with Ricochet Networks to incorporate Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and other broadband services into the city's existing right-of-way contract with Ricochet. This will allow Ricochet to provide "Wi-Fi in the Mile High" eventually to the entire footprint of the city and county of Denver. First to "go live" will be sections of the city's Capitol Hill and Golden Triangle downtown neighborhoods, an area of approximately 2.5 square miles. The new Ricochet "Wi-Fi in the Mile High" scalable mesh network will be powered by Wi-Fi Mesh, point-to-multipoint and wireless backhaul equipment from Proxim Wireless, also a wholly owned subsidiary of Terabeam. "This will be a great opportunity for us to show what is possible with a Proxim metropolitan wireless solution. Ricochet will be utilizing our dual channel AP-4000-MR and MP.11 point-to-multipoint products to offer Wi-Fi services in Denver. Proxim's end to end solution will provide a state of the art network that is very robust with excellent performance" stated Pankaj Manglik, president and COO of Proxim Wireless. "We are pleased that one of our hometown companies is expanding the wireless services available to Denver residents," said Denver mayor John Hickenlooper. "We appreciate Ricochet's support in connecting the Mile High City to the world." The existing Ricochet network, a patented mesh Micro Cellular Data Network providing high-speed, wire-free Internet access, has been operating since 2002 in the Denver metropolitan areas and serves more than 6,000 municipal, residential, and business users. Denver currently utilizes Ricochet wireless modems in many police mobile units and other city agencies, according to Darryn Zuehlke, Director of the Denver Office of Telecommunications. "Denver prides itself on striving to deliver the best in city services to businesses and residents, and Ricochet will help us continue to do so," said Zuehlke.