Development Alternatives Inc. Extends Corporate LAN With LightPointe's Secure Gigabit Ethernet Outdoor Wireless Bridge
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LightPointe Wireless Bridge Yields Seven-Month ROI and Eliminates Costly Leased-Line Fees While Supplying Global Consulting Firm With GigE Connectivity
SAN DIEGO, Nov. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- LightPointe, a designer and manufacturer of high-speed outdoor wireless products, today announced that Development Alternatives Inc. (DAI), a Washington, D.C.-based firm that provides social and economic development solutions to governments, communities and corporations worldwide, has extended its highly secure corporate network using the company's FlightStrata(TM) Gigabit Ethernet optical wireless bridge for building-to-building connectivity.
Faced with costly recurring fiber-optic cable leasing to connect its headquarters to a satellite facility for 70 employees, DAI selected LightPointe's FlightStrata optical wireless bridge that provides 1.25 Gbps of full-duplex throughput. The recent upgrade resulted in a 7-month return on investment when compared to a proposed $8,000-per-month fiber lease through a local telecommunications service provider. Before selecting the LightPointe optical wireless solution, DAI had been leasing a 45-Mbps DS3/T3 connection.
"This was one of the fastest and most straightforward network expansions we've completed to date," says Sanjin Sahadzic, network planning manager for DAI. "The LightPointe link performed exactly as described and we were able to provide secure, high-speed access to the company's LAN as though everyone was located in the same building."
DAI employs 2,000 consultants in 75 countries, and has operating companies in Brazil, South America, Palestine and the United Kingdom. Clients include the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank, bilateral development agencies, global corporations and host-country governments.
DAI equips its global workforce with leading-edge, highly reliable technology, as well as secure access to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) for connecting to corporate email, internal databases, financial research and project management systems.
For its corporate connectivity challenge, DAI sought the assistance of TelData Communications, a provider of voice and data communications solutions based in Gaithersburg, Md., and long-time LightPointe channel partner. According to Charlie Harter, business development manager for TelData, DAI was impressed with the variety of organizations with highly secure and reliable LightPointe deployments, including the Department of Homeland Security, Smithsonian Institution as well as assorted corporate clients. "After a completely thorough review of different options, DAI realized that optical wireless delivered the highest networking capacity while meeting their stringent security and reliability requirements," he says.
DAI's LightPointe link yielded faster ROI than any other technologies. Not only did LightPointe eliminate the need to upgrade a network server room at the second site, it produced a seven-month ROI when compared to leasing a Gigabit Ethernet line from a local service provider. "Optical wireless is an ideal connectivity solution that enables enterprises to avoid the constraints of multi-year leased-line contracts as well as total reliance on local-loop providers to ensure network uptime," says Bob Preston, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for LightPointe.
Optical wireless delivered the easiest, fastest and most trouble-free route between DAI's two buildings The company plans to leverage its investment in LightPointe's outdoor wireless technology by exploring other options, including possibly providing a secondary, alternate path to an offsite backup location for disaster recovery purposes. As the company continues to expand many of its international operations, LightPointe's links could be used for secure, reliable building-to-building connectivity worldwide.
About LightPointe
LightPointe designs and manufactures high-speed outdoor wireless products for cost-effective bridging in enterprise and carrier networks. LightPointe's outdoor wireless solutions have earned high marks in enterprise networking installations for linking two or more buildings in classic LAN-to-LAN backbone connectivity with extraordinarily high-bandwidth from 100 Mbps up to 1.25 Gbps. LightPointe outdoor wireless solutions are unique in that they use optical wireless based on free-space optics (FSO) technology and are license-free worldwide. The company's patented DualPath architecture integrates auto-switching optical wireless as a primary path and license-free 5.8 GHz radio frequency (RF) wireless as a secondary and redundant data path for industry-leading 99.999 percent network availability and uptime. LightPointe products have been deployed in more than 60 countries, and the company is recognized worldwide for the highest standards of quality and service. To learn more, please visit www.lightpointe.com/.
Source: LightPointe
CONTACT: Jeff Bean of LightPointe, +1-858-643-5319, jbean@lightpointe.com; or Sue Hetzel of HetzelMeade Communications,
+1-760-434-9927, sue@hetzelmeade.com, for LightPointe
Web site: http://www.lightpointe.com/
