The Tahoe Project

AirTegrity Wireless Donates Pre-WiMAX Solution to Sand Harbor State Park To Provide Park and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival with Free Wireless Internet Access

Solar-Powered Pre-WiMAX Base Station Installed 8,000 Feet Up in Harsh Environmental Conditions, Making AirTegrity’s Solution the Highest Altitude Pre-WiMAX Deployment in the Nation 

AirTegrity Wireless, a company dedicated to developing industry-leading wireless communications solutions for global applications, has donated a pre-WiMAX system for wireless broadband to the Sand Harbor State Park in Lake Tahoe.  The Incline Village, Nevada-park is home to the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. The AirTegrity system will provide free wireless Internet access to Park employees, Festival volunteers, and Park patrons alike.

The AirTegrity system was installed 8,000 feet up in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range near Lake Tahoe where it is subject to high snowfall, extreme winds and temperatures, and mountain debris.  This new network, one of the first solar-powered pre-WiMAX installations and the highest-elevation pre-WiMAX installation to date, is an extension of one which has proven its capabilities even in the harsh weather conditions of the High Sierra since 2001.

AirTegrity offers base stations, relay stations, and subscriber stations – everything needed for a wireless network. With reliable operation in difficult physical conditions of the Lake Tahoe mountains, AirTegrity proves this pre-WiMAX system is an ideal technology for maintaining wireless Internet access, voice, video, and data communications in the event of catastrophic weather from Mother Nature.

WiMAX is a new wireless broadband technology that provides all of the speed and performance of wired broadband networks over a wireless connection. AirTegrity’s WiMAX-In-A-Box™ system is based on the current specifications for WiMAX and, until certification is completed, should be considered a pre-WiMAX technology. While the specifications for WiMAX are evolving, it’s already clear that WiMAX will dramatically increase the performance and lower the costs associated with the installation and operation of broadband voice and data networks. Earlier this month, Sprint-Nextel announced plans to build a new, nationwide wireless network based on WiMAX technology.

"AirTegrity’s donation to the San Harbor State Park benefits the Festival and our employees and visitors who use the park year-round," said Catherine Atack, executive director of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.  "The new wireless Internet access provided by AirTegrity lets us virtually transport our office to the theater which is critical when the Festival is in season.  We are grateful to the company for their donation.”

"WiMAX is an exciting new technology that has tremendous potential to change the way we communicate wirelessly. We believe the demand for WiMAX from the communications industry will be strong with major investments from leading telecommunications companies and service providers alike," said Greg Phillips, CEO, AirTegrity Wireless.  "Demanding deployments like this one demonstrate why an investment in this technology by these organizations is a good one."

In addition to serving communities, fixed wireless broadband technology like AirTegrity’s has emerged as a critical low-cost connectivity option for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that need high-performance broadband connectivity but may either not have access to the physical wired infrastructure or may be seeking alternatives to its high-costs. 

AirTegrity Wireless, Inc. is leading the global race to introduce products based on the 802.16 standards adopted in 2004. The new AirTegrity pre-WiMAX products combine core features and functionality from technologies for wireless communication, wireline, LAN, WAN, VPN, VoIP, security and network management, thereby offering a suite of capabilities unique to AirTegrity’s products.  With the new AirVantage product line, designed for service providers seeking “last mile” high-performance wireless broadband access with AirTegrity’s simple “WiMax in a Box” approach, AirTegrity offers all of this power and flexibility in a compact, low-power-consumption, integrated package.