Grand Haven company aims to bring high-powered WiMAX to businesses, homes
As technology needs grow on all fronts—metropolitan, business, home and personal—one Grand Haven company aims to push the next generation of wireless capabilities beyond just uses for metro regions and into individual businesses and homes.
As technology needs grow on all fronts—metropolitan, business, home and personal—one Grand Haven company aims to push the next generation of wireless capabilities beyond just uses for metro regions and into individual businesses and homes.
According to excerpts from the story:
Some businesses are patiently waiting for the new WiMAX network, a wireless network much like WiFi only faster, more reliable and with a signal that carries over longer distances. Others already have WiMAX service through a company named Azulstar.
“There’s been a goal in the industry to come up with another way to do cable or DSL, or another way to break some of the monopoly that the cable and phone companies have in the market, and the promise was always wireless,” said Tyler van Houwelingen, founder and CEO of Azulstar,
Azulstar was formed in late 2002 in Europe, before van Houwelingen moved back to his hometown of Grand Haven. In 2003, Azulstar set up a WiFi network that spanned the city of Grand Haven. Azulstar also has a large network in New Mexico.
But before Azulstar could finish building its original network, WiMAX was announced at the end of 2003, with plans to be implemented in 2006. “It takes what we’re doing and puts it on steroids,” said van Houwelingen.
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