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Shawmut Design and Construction Builds High-Speed Network Extension
with BridgeWave’s Gigabit Ethernet Wireless Links
Seamless Building-to-Building Connectivity Delivers Substantial Capacity, Cost and Expedited
Deployment Benefits over Traditional Leased Fiber-Optic Based Services
Santa Clara, CA – March 18, 2008 – BridgeWave Communications, the leading supplier of
gigabit wireless solutions, today announced that Shawmut Design and Construction, an $850
million general contracting and construction management firm headquartered in Boston, has
deployed two BridgeWave GE60 wireless links to extend its corporate network to accommodate
additional office space while enabling the transparent delivery of voice, data and video traffic.
Aggregate growth of revenues of more than 200 percent since 2000 caused Shawmut to exceed
capacity at its Boston headquarters, creating an immediate need for nearby office space to house
about 100 of the company’s 820 employees. When space was located in a building across a
parking lot, approximately 1,500 feet away, the initial preference was to connect the two sites
using fiber-optic leased line service. However, the estimate to trench and lay fiber conduit
between the two buildings was $60,000, while projected leasing fees ran as high as $12,000 per
month.
With assistance from Pipeline Wireless, a Fall River, Mass.-based provider of wireless
broadband solutions, Shawmut determined that BridgeWave’s GE60 gigabit wireless radios
would deliver the desired bandwidth and “five nines” network availability at a much more
attractive price. Additionally, the extremely narrow antenna beamwidth of BridgeWave’s links
provided superior interference immunity and enhanced data security. The radios’ ultra-low
latency, which is less than 50 microseconds, also easily accommodated Shawmut’s VoIP services
and increasing use of bandwidth-intensive video conferencing.
“BridgeWave’s GigE links are essentially wireless fiber, giving us enough capacity to support
another 100 or so people at the secondary site without any impact on network performance,”
says Chris Ryan, network and systems manager for Shawmut Design and Construction.
“Connectivity is seamless, so it’s like our remote employees are simply working from a different
floor in our headquarters.”
Shawmut installed a pair of BridgeWave’s GE60 radios to achieve fully redundant building-tobuilding
connectivity for about the same price as digging up the parking lot. “BridgeWave’s
gigabit wireless solutions deliver exceptional cost and time savings over fiber-based
alternatives,” says Neil Senfleben, vice president of business development for Pipeline Wireless.
“Instead of waiting 90-to-180 days to get fiber installed and provisioned, BridgeWave’s costeffective,
easy-to-deploy GigE wireless radios can be up and running within days.”
In the future, Shawmut will consider gigabit wireless when extending its network in other fastgrowing
areas, such as New York City. “BridgeWave’s gigabit wireless links offer fiber-like
capacity, reliability and security to link business campuses across the street or across town,”
says Gregg Levin, chief marketing officer for BridgeWave Communications. “Increasingly,
corporations are leveraging our full GigE speed wireless connections for high-bandwidth data
and low-latency VoIP applications.”
About BridgeWave Communications
Founded in 1999, BridgeWave Communications is the leading supplier of outdoor Gigabit wireless connectivity solutions. The company’s exclusive AdaptRate™ and AdaptPath™ technologies combined with its advanced Forward Error Correction capability deliver the highest availability at the longest distances for full-rate gigabit links. BridgeWave’s point-to-point, wireless solutions are widely deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul. With the largest installed base of GigE radios worldwide, BridgeWave delivers the highest levels of product quality and reliability.
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