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Fact Sheet

  • Company founded: 1999
  • Privately funded: $77 million from Alliance Ventures, Canaan Partners, JK&B Capital, Innovacom (France Telecom), Labrador Ventures, Satwik Ventures, Tyco Ventures, Redwood Ventures, JAFCO Ventures, Mitsubishi International Corporation, Stratex Networks, Oki Electric Industry Company, and Ridgewood Capital
  • Mission: Deliver broadband wireless equipment that is affordable, versatile and powerful enough to support business-grade and mass-market deployment across major broadband wireless access frequencies worldwide (2.5, 3.5 and 5 GHz)
  • Initial target: Small to medium enterprises, served by business-class service providers
  • Systems: The PacketWaveâ system provides a family of base stations, subscriber units and associated radios and antennas in 2.5, 3.5 and 5 GHz frequency bands for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint deployments. Its scalable systems and patented technology supports new wireless builds and complement existing wireline broadband access technology.
  • Applications: Operators have deployed business-grade wireless access from T-1/E-1 to 14 Mbps, for wireless VPNs, disaster recovery, VoIP, streaming media and Hot Spot backhaul
  • Future target: Mass market subscribers (as WiMAX certification and mass-market volumes lower cost curves)
  • Major accomplishments:
    • First products shipped - 1Q 2001
    • Leader in business-grade access platforms
    • Highest subscriber density/cell, highest spectral efficiency and QoS
    • Systems now installed in 50 countries
  • Aperto success factors:
    • Functions appeal to wireless providers, business subscribers (integrated IP routing, VLAN, QoS, PMP, ability to optimize multiple data flows per link and per subscriber)
    • Systems are highly popular in the underserved sweet spot of T-1/E-1 replacement
    • Systems operation and features are highly stable, reliable and rapid-installable
    • One platform serves all dominant sub-11 GHz frequencies
    • Founding member and forefront contributor to IEEE 802.16 and WiMAX Forum; chair of WiMAX Forum's Service Provider Working Group
  • Strategic expertise:
    • Support for new business models, per-cell profitability for large/small cities, rural markets, multiple frequencies and hybrid networks
    • Technologies key to feature-rich broadband wireless access systems (i.e., carrier-class base station controller, network management features, radio, antenna, user-appropriate subscriber units, wireless backhaul features)
  • Announced customers:
    • CEFIB in Mali, Africa
    • Cedarcom in Lebanon
    • Center Unified School District in Greater Sacramento, California
    • Conterra Communications in North and South Carolina, Georgia
    • Egation Communications in Silicon Valley, California
    • France Telecom in Brittany
    • Gold Mind Telecom in China
    • Illuminat in Trinidad and Tobago
    • Internet Partners/ GTS Polska (Poland)
    • Leap Wireless in Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Cork and Waterford, Ireland
    • Leapfrog Broadband in Southwestern Michigan
    • Link3 in Bangladesh
    • Maui Sky Fiber in Hawaii
    • MVS Comunicaciones in Mexico
    • Sequelle in West Virginia, Ohio
    • TowerStream in Boston, Providence, New York City and Chicago
    • TransAria in Montana and Alaska
    • Ultravision in Mexico