02/01/08 - GigaCom Wireless announced that Great American Networks has completed a Purchase Agreement to purchase GigaCom Wireless HAFNIUM links in the Washington D.C. market providing highly scalable, carrier grade radio solutions in support of Great American Networks portfolio of broadband wireless services.

Great American Networks operates a network in Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. metro area. Great American Networks will use GigaCom Wireless's HAFNIUM products to offer backhaul wireless services to more cost-effectively support next generation data access across their network as an alternative to conventional wireline networks.

"We are finding alternative sources of local backhaul to support higher bandwidth, next generation services over our network", said Brent Anderson, CEO of Great American Networks. "The GigaCom Wireless Ethernet radios add gigabit scalability to our portfolio of broadband wireless offerings and provide us with another option to cost-effectively expand our networks".

"The need for scalable, easy to deploy and cost-effective wireless links optimized for high capacity networking is changing the US market, and we are very pleased to have been selected by Great American Networks", said Norman Henderson, Senior Vice President at GigaCom Wireless. "We look forward to continuing to work closely with Great American Networks to serve their evolving needs for wireless services".

GigaCom Wireless's HAFNIUM products operate in licensed radio frequencies in the 6-to-23-GHz range, ensuring interference-free performance for communications. GigaCom Wireless product solutions provide scalable, ultra-low latency, wire-speed native Ethernet connectivity up to 1000 Mbps full duplex. The systems are extremely easy to deploy and manage, with a full suite of network management options. GigaCom Wireless has many deployment options, and is a highly reliable platform enabling 99.999% service availability.