El Chaco is a small town about 2 ½ hours east of Quito on the edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. Its 6ooo inhabitants, who have not left to seek their fortune in Quito or in other countries, earn a living mostly from agriculture or small businesses. El Chaco is neither rich nor poor. Nobody is starving and nobody has riches. The people of EL Chaco have learned to make do with the basics. The same can be said for the town’s infrastructure. The community has schools but they are in a bad state. They have a health station but no hospital and a doctor is often hard to find. Residents have access to the phone but the lines are rare and calls expensive, and of its roads, some are good, mostly bad, sometimes impassable.

KOA Campground is situated in a remote area 15 minutes outside Quebec City. The facility spans a 450 m radius, and has 160 RV sites. The majority of residents spends prolonged periods of time at the camp, and requires the types of services and connectivity they would get at home. KOA was left to evaluate ways to provide high-speed Internet access to its clients, at a competitive price.

Once separated from the world of highspeed connectivity due to cost, geography and deficiencies in Telco systems, Nicaragua, located in the heart of Central America, is experiencing significant developments in telecommunication. Realizing the great technological potential, there are more operators, provide more coverage and many more services in this region. The demand for bandwidth is becoming a challenge for many ISPs in this region.

SOTA has set up a point-to-multipoint wireless network in central Coshocton to provide a variety of business customers with highspeed Internet access. The network’s base station is at SOTA’s office, which is located in one of Coshocton’s tallest buildings. An omni-directional antenna on the four-storey building’s roof links with 13 customer premises equipment units, which operate in the unlicensed ISM 2.4 GHz frequency band.

SkyberNet strives to meet the demand for increased bandwidth and provide high-speed Internet access cost-effectively to small to medium-sized businesses in the Benelux countries.

InfoMine required a networking solution to cost-effectively meet the needs of a range of customers, including those who are applications-driven as well as those who want to bridge buildings and have access to Internet services.

Mountainous terrain presents a particularly challenging environment in which to deploy broadband communications networks. Difficult geography combined with a low population density tends to limit the options for providing broadband access at rates that are attractive to both consumers and to service providers. The picturesque Wenatchee Valley located next to the rugged, snow capped Cascade Mountains and the mighty Columbia River in Central Washington State offers just such a challenge.

As an independent wireless internet service provider, Reztel faces two major challenges with its infrastructure; increasing subscriber growth and bandwidth hungry users. With 68% of its population online, Canada has one of the highest internet adoption rates in the world. Not only are there a lot of users, but these users are demanding more and more bandwidth from internet services as they engage in activities like music and movie downloading, surfing the web, and online video games. These factors boil down to an increased demand for resources on Reztel’s backbone network.

Building owners and managers need high-speed Internet access to make their properties desirable in a highly competitive real estate marketplace. For businesses, access to highspeed Internet services is a critical selection criterion when choosing commercial office space. High-speed Internet service is also important to prospective residential tenants when evaluating a place to live. Whether attracting new tenants or retaining existing ones, high-speed Internet access gives building owners and managers valuable negotiating power in today’s real estate climate.

Keeping a keen eye on the bottom-line, the Canadian Coast Guard is tackling its connectivity challenges using a wireless system that enables its ships to tap into their network whenever they dock along Ontario’s Great Lakes. With the application of wireless spread spectrum technology from Ottawa’s EION Wireless, seagoing personnel can now review E-mail and access the Internet, as well as the Federal Government’s intranet, without a wired land connection.

Gujarat state covers 196 thousand square kilometers and its government provides administration and services to over 48 million people. This daunting task has been made easier with the recent implementation of a wireless communications system that provides voice, video conferencing and WAN data services between government offices.

Banco Del Pichincha is the largest bank in Ecuador with more than 200 branch offices disseminated in all regions of the country. Their last mile access has been designed by Trasmidatos who is a leading integrator in Ecuador with more than 20 years of experience in the design of wireless communication systems using different technologies such as satellite, spread spectrum, and microwave.

Established in 2002, Megkom AS is a niche consultancy partner and value added reseller of next generation wireless and optical networks. It has a significant presence in Canada and Europe, and ensures that next generation wireless networks are deployed, managed and successfully utilized to create value for all its stakeholders. Currently, Megkom’s customer portfolio includes vendors, service providers, operators, municipalities and systems integrators across Canada and the Nordic Region of Europe.

Cordova Bay Golf Course opened its second 9-hole course in the summer of 1998. With the main network server being located in the clubhouse on the 18-hole course, Cordova Bay was faced with the challenge of creating a central, shared system when it opened its second course.

People from urban areas take the simplicity of connecting to the Internet for granted, as their phone lines and cable television wiring presents options when choosing an ISP. In rural areas, the process of surfing the web can be much more difficult. Many places do not have the necessary lines in place due to rough terrain or cost prohibitions, and digging into rugged terrain or heavily forested areas to lay cable is not practical.

Damascus University is the largest university in Syria with twenty four campuses spreading across the City of Damascus, the capital of Syria. Dating back to the beginning of the last century, Damascus University is one of the most important centres of Arab culture in the Middle East. The Ministry of Higher Education (MHE) is the ministry in Syria, who is the governing body of all universities in Syria, including the Damascus University.

The University of Alaska’s Geophysical Institute now owns its private data network thanks to EION’s affordable wireless solution. The atmospheric research data collected by sounding rockets can be transferred to the university quicker than ever.

Calgary is well known as the centre of excellence for wireless in Canada. To demonstrate its leading position, Calgary Wireless City Showcase Hotspots project is built to provide Internet access at the heart of Calgary using the latest wireless technology. This is the first multi-service provider hotspot network in North America.

A department in the Canadian Federal Government had a security requirement for a large amount of data to be networked as part of a new surveillance and monitoring system. Engineers working on the project were tasked with finding a solution that was cost effective, provided adequate throughput, and met the strict security requirements of the federal government. This paper tells the story of how the right combination of experience and equipment led to the successful deployment of several wireless backhaul links in a city environment.