LiquidGrid brings broadband Internet access as a last mile and mobile Internet service, but also private high speed services are provided using Strix Edge Wireless Systems (EWS) customer premise equipment (CPE) for increased coverage and higher throughput to residents, businesses, corporations, manufacturing, industrial, transportation services, police department, the municipality and more.
"Before PowerNet Global came to offer service to our town, we didn't have any options. The bigger phone companies don't offer service in our area, so we had no real access to the Internet," stated a resident of Owensboro.
PNG chose Strix Access/One OWS after testing other leading manufacturers, finding that Strix Access/One is a cost effective high performance wireless mesh network system delivering the capacity, range and coverage enabling the expansion of services.
"This is a great opportunity to grow our business and to grow the business in the communities of these underserved markets," states PowerNet Global's CEO and president Bernie Stevens. "We know that going in to these rural markets and giving them something they are not getting from anyone else is a great benefit to our business model and an even greater benefit to them."
PNG expects to add voice over IP (VoIP) as an option to the service sometime in 2007. Having previously deployed VoIP gateways, which now blanket the United States, this has allowed them to offer extremely competitive (wholesale) domestic and International termination services. Most recently, PNG deployed a class 5/feature server that allows it to offer residential, SMB and Enterprise level VoIP services throughout the United States. This experience will enable PNG to develop and deliver high quality VoIP services capitalizing on Strix Access/One's high throughput, low latency and optimization of voice, video and data services.
