October 22, 2009

Industry’s First Enterprise Radio Access Network (E-RAN)

After 2 years of stealth, we’re happy to unveil our company, team and product focus. So why now?

The growing usage and penetration of high-speed mobile wireless services for both voice and data have created new challenges and opportunities for mobile operators, enterprises, and consumers. The requirement for always-on, high-speed communications both indoors and out has created a capacity dilemma in the densely populated areas where enterprises are located (office parks) and high-rise office buildings in metropolitan areas. This capacity dilemma is not easily solved by adding more macro cell sites outside to ‘blast inside’ considering the expense and inefficiency of deployment in this way. A new approach to deployment is needed to provide reliable indoor wireless coverage for mobile broadband subscribers within the enterprise. From a network perspective, we are seeing the emergence of a new era – the era of capacity. Attempts to provide wireless coverage inside for voice and data has been cost prohibitive for mobile operators thus far. That’s where we come in (SpiderCloud Wireless, Inc.)

SpiderCloud Wireless is a new mobile network infrastructure provider of a new in-building wireless system which utilizes licensed spectrum. SpiderCloud Wireless makes use of a new services node architectural approach with central control of radio nodes. The SmartCloud™ architecture is designed specifically for the requirements of the enterprise Radio Access Network to meet the specific needs for deployment within licensed spectrum while facilitating the delivery of locally connected voice and data services inside the enterprise. The system is sold directly to mobile operators and is deployed at the point of broadband consumption within the enterprise.

The system self-configures and based on capacity requirements, capacity can be added by simply adding an additional radio node. With centralized RF management and control, the entire enterprise can act as a single high-capacity cloud (network) where all traffic and capacity is entirely offloaded from the operator’s macro network. The radio nodes are deployed in high-traffic, high-consumption areas and thus a “Spider” deployment model is used where the services node controls the radio nodes. In brief, the name SpiderCloud Wireless describes what we do, and how the system is deployed.

In the coming weeks we will provide you with more insights to our progress.

Ronny A. Haraldsvik
Vice President of Marketing