PC-EPhone, Inc., the exclusive distributor of the PC-EPhone in the United States and Canada, and Wicom Networks, an emerging wireless development company, have entered into an exclusive licensing agreement, subject to Board approvals, to provide 802.11a Access Points, ASIC Chips, PCMCIA cards, and wireless internet phone systems (with video) to change the course of wireless evolution.
Moving fast forward with its PC-ESolutions Ecosystem, PC-EPhone intends to paint the world wireless by offering its customers and partners the opportunity to license its family of 802.11a Wicom Products which are expected to be available in 2002. The IEEE 802.11a standard provides much more data throughput, more speed and more reliability than the 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11b standard. The high data rate IEEE 802.11a standard has been developed for the 5 GHz Unlicensed National Information Infrastructure (UNII) band, thus avoiding potential interference with other applications in the 2.4 GHz band.
Wicom's 802.11a Access Point provides data rates of approximately 24Mbps and distances between 0.8 kilometers to 3 kilometers in the unlicensed 5 GHz band. The technology includes OFDM. In addition, the Access Point module includes a variety of custom-designed cells that perform the decoding, automatic gain control (AGC) and other functions required by the IEEE 802.11a standard. Throughput is expected to be between 54 to 72 Mbps by next year.
"It's easy to understand the impact of this disruptive wireless technology when considering the proven speeds and distances," says David Meltzer, President and CEO of PC-EPhone. "Everybody including chip manufacturers, wireless products manufacturers, network equipment providers, wireless carriers, telcos, and content providers are candidates to license and deploy this technology."
The Wicom Access Points can be attached to or built onto existing cell sites in order to reduce overall rollout costs associated with this new technology. Wicom ASIC Chips, which are being designed and developed to function in conjunction with the Wicom Access Points, are expected to be licensed to major handset manufacturers permitting the mass development of handsets and handheld devices that will offer streaming video and other visual capabilities, as opposed to just voice-and-text-only capabilities. Wicom's PCMCIA card is being designed and developed to allow high-speed wireless access for personal digital assistants (PDAs) and laptop computers utilizing Wicom's Access Points or other 802.11a Access Points.
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