The USDA Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program is designed to provide financing to legally organized entities for funding costs of construction, improvement, and acquisition of telecommunications infrastructure with the purpose of providing high-quality broadband access services to eligible rural communities. The goal is to ensure that consumers in underserved areas of rural America are enabled to enjoy the same quality and range of broadband access services that are available to more populated urban areas.
The Trango equipment on the USDA Rural Development listing includes point-to-multipoint systems: Access5830 (dual-band 5 GHz), M2400S (2.4 GHz), M900S (900 MHz), as well as point-to-point backhaul equipment: Atlas Series (multi-band 5 GHz) and TrangoLINK-10 (dual-band 5 GHz). Trango is in the process of having its two newest products added to the listing: the TrangoLINK-Giga(TM), a licensed microwave wireless backhaul system capable of up to 600+ Mbps (300+ Mbps full duplex) and industry-leading latency of less than 150 microseconds; and the TrangoLINK-45(TM), an unlicensed high-speed multi-band 5 GHz Wireless Ethernet Bridge.
"Trango's wireless solutions have been deployed by hundreds of rural service providers for nearly a decade. Our wireless broadband systems are an obvious choice for long-range rural applications due to high performance, fast and easy installation, and the incredible cost savings compared to cable and fiber deployments," said Vural Kalafat, vice president of marketing for Trango Broadband Wireless. "We are quite pleased with the USDA Rural Development listing, because we know that this will help America's underserved rural communities come to enjoy the high performance for value that Trango delivers."
Timothy McAfee, General Manager of Pioneer Wireless, Inc. in Houlton, Maine says: "We have been a Trango customer for over 4 years. Our backbone is all-wireless and eighty percent of it is made up of Trango Broadband equipment. Trango products have allowed Pioneer Wireless to expand our service footprint economically and successfully throughout northern Maine. We will continue to purchase Trango Broadband products. In the coming months we will be working with many rural Maine communities on USDA grant and loan projects and we are happy that Trango Broadband is on the USDA list of acceptable materials."
Travis Johnson, President of Microserv Computer Technologies in Idaho says: "For 5 years Microserv has deployed Trango equipment to provide high-speed wireless Internet service to more than 2,500 mostly rural customers. Our entire network is wireless and covers over 25,000 square miles of rural southeastern Idaho. Microserv's success relies on our wireless equipment to be efficient, functional and affordable -- Trango gear delivers all of this, which has enabled our business to grow every year. We plan to continue to deploy Trango well into the future and would recommend it for any business needing reliable wireless connectivity."
Trango Broadband Wireless is on the forefront of innovation in developing point-to-point and point-to-multipoint wireless transmission systems for licensed and license-exempt spectrums. Trango has more than 300,000 radios installed worldwide in more than 70 countries in the areas of Broadband Wireless Internet Access, high-capacity IP backhaul connectivity, mesh networks, Voice-over-IP (VoIP), IP video surveillance and emerging platforms such as wireless IPTV.
