BreezeCOM (NASDAQ:BRZE), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-speed wireless access solutions, announced that Mexico City has selected its BreezeACCESS(TM) wireless infrastructure equipment to enable the deployment of the country's first real-time voting process. In partnership with the Instituto Electoral del Districto Federal (IEDF), the BreezeCOM wireless network will be officially launched July 2, in time for Mexico's upcoming presidential elections.
In Mexico, as in every other democracy around the globe, the manual counting of ballots is a long held, but tedious tradition that is inherently prone to human error. Mexico City's forward-looking IEDF turned to high-tech for a solution to help facilitate and streamline this procedure.
In the heart of the world's largest city, the BreezeCOM network will wirelessly connect all 42 election offices located throughout the city to the IEDF central headquarters, spanning distances greater than 22 kilometers, or 14 miles. In addition, the network security features and system management tools built into the BreezeCOM system will help to ensure the accuracy of the election data -- placing Mexico ahead of other major democracies worldwide.
Operating in the 2.4 GHz license-free spectrum, this advanced wireless network is exceptional, as it was believed the license-free frequency bands to be saturated in the city. However, the efficient frequency reuse and bandwidth allocation of the BreezeCOM system enables this network to effectively operate in the crowded Mexican unlicensed frequency bands without fear of interference. The BreezeCOM system offered the IEDF other benefits as well, such as ease of deployment, frequency flexibility and the cost effectiveness it wanted and needed.
While the system was originally designed to be only a pilot test, the IEDF is so pleased with the wireless network, that it has decided to keep the system in place permanently, providing connectivity and networking support to each of the local election offices, which operate year-round. BreezeCOM, in cooperation with Mexican distributor Mexel, completed network installation and system testing earlier this month. Future plans include expanding the real-time voting system to cover several other major cities, such as Monterrey, Guadalajara and Puebla.
"This system was designed to provide real-time electronic voting to our residents," stated Gustavo Nunez, director of network operations for the IEDF. "However, we believe that our state-of-the-art wireless network will greatly improve our entire voting process. We are extremely pleased with the wireless network BreezeCOM has installed. Other companies told us that a large scale wireless network in Mexico City's saturated 2.4 GHz spectrum couldn't be done, but the excellent technical teams of BreezeCOM and Mexel have proven them wrong. To date, we have run numerous system tests without failure or downtime. We're excited to be leading our nation, and possibly the world, in implementing the first wireless real-time voting process."
The IEDF is very proud of its system, which is deployed in a cellular configuration and touts a high-speed 21 Mbps wireless backbone feeding all 42 remote sites. Each site has resident voice and data ports, video conferencing capabilities, as well as access to the system's real-time replicating database.
"July 2 will be an exciting day for BreezeCOM," stated Bernard Herscovich, president of BreezeCOM, Inc. "It is a privilege and honor for us to be part of a solution that will so positively impact the future of this country's electoral process. We're pleased that the flexibility and value added-features of the BreezeACCESS product line are setting us apart and making a difference."
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