Partnership Promises VoIP to Rural Communities

Atlanta-based Camvera Networks has been helping small municipalities design, build, and manage high-performance fixed wireless networks for several years. Filling a void in a world where the big telecommunications players generally ignore the needs of rural areas, Camvera has developed a specialty in bringing smaller towns into the 21st century.

Technology driven

Unlike the well-publicized communities that are using unlicensed Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11) technology, Camvera’s installations use licensed-spectrum radio technology from Navini Networks, which allows high-speed connectivity to as many as 1,000 businesses and residents from a single tower.

It’s the Navini connection that led to Camvera’s partnership—announced last week—with Cincinnati-based integrated communications provider PowerNet Global Communications. PNG (as it sometimes refers to itself) was looking for companies with experience in deploying Navini gear, and a chance meeting at a trade show got them talking. The rest will soon be history.

By Ted Stevenson

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