In rural and isolated areas, the costs of building a wired infrastructure are prohibitive. With the ability to support high bandwidth over long distances, WiMax is a popular solution for rural communications. However, due to building, topography or other obstacles, a single WiMax antenna/base station is generally not enough to ensure coverage to an entire village/town. In order to overcome poor reception, operators typically need to install picocells on each home to guarantee service.

MaxTech's mobile mesh technology can be used by service providers to rapidly deploy cost-effective voice and data communications in rural areas. This technology ensures full coverage within the village, without the need for any infrastructure. Village residents communicate with one another via the mesh network, while calls outside the village are automatically routed to the WiMax antenna. As less calls are routed through the WiMax infrastructure, residents enjoy higher quality of service for external calls.

Advantages:
• Reduced capex and less equipment
• Reduced opex
• Fast time to market
• No single point of failure due to mesh topology
• High QoS for external calls since less calls are routed via WiMax antenna
• Supports external gateway to VSAT (where applicable)