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Technology founded in Bella Bella B.C Canada (2005)
• Remote Areas
• 350 miles north of major city center
• E – Education Class room
• Initial installation 2005
Advanced Interactive Joint Venture with M.I.K to form Rural First Broadband Inc“To Connect & Protect”
Advanced Interactive Inc. engineers solutions that increase access speeds to the Internet in remote communities such as:
Alaska, American Samoa, northern Canada, Hawaii, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tahiti, Tonga, Uganda, etc.
www.ruralfirstbroadband.com
•International Presence•Over 55 Years in Business
•690 Employees•Over 600,000 sq/ft of facilities worldwide
Applications to Industry Canada were procured, equipment was purchased, programmed and mounted on a existing broadcast tower in a rural community called Whitecourt, Alberta.
Proof of Concept using UHF
We took our knowledge base from the cable plant and applied it to wireless.
Initially we were astonished to find that the footprint of coverage to be a 50km radius or ~8000 Sq/Km.
Residential Viability
After proof of concept the organic migration of live customers on system was achieved.
The first system took 4 years of residential installs and thousands of hours of tweaking and fine tuning to fully understand the abilities & Limitations of the 'White Space' Technology.
This gave rise to the second system servicing Grande Prairie, Alberta and its surrounding areas.
Term to describe the
UHF Spectrum.
Financial Investment of
$15 Million Canadian Dollars.
Alberta Coverage Map
UHF Coverage footprints along the Highway 43 Alaska Highway
Each system has an approximate coverage of 50km radius or 8,000 square km.
• 40,447 Residential Homes• 4,272 Businesses• Thousands of Well Heads• 12 First Nation
Settlements
Covering Over
Types of ConnectivityFiber
DSL
Cable
Previous slide was types of connectivity, this slide needs to be enhanced on different wireless system
types, capabilities, features and benefits of our wireless systems
Wireless SpectrumLicensed- UHF 500Mhz-899Mhz Unlicensed-
900Mhz-2.4Ghz-Lower frequency allows for greater signal penetration through foliage.
-Higher frequency are blocked and/or has difficulty penetrating through foliage.
-Near Line of Sight allows signal to “Bend” around hills and valleys.
-Line of Sight requires a non obstructed path between transmission and receive antennas for connectivity.
-Competitors cannot cause interference on licensed allocated frequency.
-Non licensed frequency transmission by many carriers cause interference resulting in non reliable service
Prioritizing traffic and adding in Quality of Service (QOS)
Priority Broadband
Case StudyWireless broadband communication system
Fox Creek (Industrial Communication System)
Over 5,000 Well Heads
Our Industrial Broadband Network will provide reliable broadband services to businesses, residential, oil well heads and First Nation settlements communities.
Our business broadband Network
Our Residential Broadband Network
Rapid DeploymentCarrier on Wheels
• Quick deployment for recovery of any system tower issue
• Emergency response during disaster relief