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Press Release, March 2003
Carlson Wireless Technologies Announces New Digital Radio Release
Redway, CA - Carlson Wireless Technologies Inc. (CWT) announced their latest product release, the FT512. The FT512 is a multi-functional digital radio, programmable to bandwidths from 128 Kbps to 512 Kbps. The FT512 provides 2, 4, 6, or 8 phone lines, or can allocate some of the bandwidth to high-speed data. The FT512 is designed to extend both voice and data service with up to 512 kbps throughput. Utilizing non-overlapping channels as well as CDMA technology, customers are able to have up to 8 point-to-point links and can co-locate up to 16 systems, providing up to 128 lines. It is the most cost-effective system of its kind.
The FT512 operates in the unlicensed 2.4 GHz band and has options available for 5.8 GHz. The system also uses a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows for easy configuration by users as well as link diagnostics. The system can extend up to 14 miles with its standard internal antenna and up to 32 miles with an optional external antenna.
The FT512 represents a new technology wave within CWT. While it is currently a stand alone point-to-point product, it is also slated to be the basis of the, RuralConnect™ multipoint product. RuralConnect™ scheduled for release during the summer of 2003.
The established CWT product line, including the Phone Line Extender™, gives users full-bandwidth, carrier-grade voice and data over a 14-mile radio link with a self-contained antenna. "We are the price/performance leader in our point-to-point wireless market niche, producing a 200% annual growth rate to date," said Jim Carlson, founder and Chief Technologist for the company. "With the release of RuralConnect™ this summer, our sales and growth will most certainly exceed these levels."
About Carlson Wireless
Founded in 1999 by CEO and Chief Technologist Jim Carlson, Carlson Wireless Technologies is headquartered in Redway, California. Carlson's design team has focused on design of telephone and data services to the most remote and isolated rural areas of the globe. In 1990 Carlson founded Carlson Communications Inc., marketing the Optaphone product line. For nearly ten years Carlson Communications provided analog subscriber access lines to the rural markets. Zhone Technologies acquired the company in 1999.
CWT is methodically pursuing the underserved telecom markets, selling systems to China, Indonesia, India, Africa, South America and Mexico, as well as to resellers, distributors and telephone operators throughout the United States. CWT has also found very valuable and consistent customers such as the United Nations, various agencies of the U.S. government, public utilities and railway companies which deploy CWT products in telecommunications and security applications.