City-wide connectivity, no strings (or wires) attached.
Imagine a municipality that could tie all its departments and services together — police, transit, schools, libraries, traffic control, fire departments, parks, ambulances, water and wastewater treatment — with one powerful broadband Ethernet link.
Imagine that this wireless network could piggyback on its existing infrastructure, minimizing cost and effort while maximizing data rates. And imagine that the municipality, at the end of the day, would have complete control over this network.
Well, imagine no more. The above is a succinct description of a Municipal Wide Area Network (WAN), as constructed by ENCOM Wireless.
Wireless technology has become the worldwide standard in communications. ENCOM’s wireless networks enjoy a bulletproof reputation for seamless, error-free connectivity in the most severe, challenging environments — and provide the perfect communications vehicle for the establishment of wireless Wide Area Networks.
When the ENCOM financial advantage is coupled with rock-solid ENCOM technology, the result enables our clients to accomplish great things — and one of the finest examples is this dedicated network solution.
ENCOM’s wireless Wide Area Network provides dedicated bandwidth with dedicated reliability, giving you ownership of a future-minded communications system. There isn’t an Internet service provider, cellphone provider or cable company in the world that can make that sort of claim.
Using a city’s existing infrastructure — including traffic signals, buildings, towers, bridges, water reservoirs, pump stations, and buried fiberoptic cable — ENCOM builds one big communications network, or multiple smaller networks, depending on which option is more advantageous.
ENCOM’s dedicated, wireless wide area networks (WAN) are failsafe, intelligent communication systems that support initiatives such as Smart Grids, automated meter reading (AMR), intelligent transportation systems, advanced transit systems and mobile workforces. These dedicated systems are owned and controlled by the city itself, ensuring information remains secure and accessible during emergency situations and natural disasters – when public or cellular networks are vulnerable to failure.
Front and centre in the success of the operation are ENCOM’s broadband Ethernet-based, future-minded wireless systems that instantly boost data rate, efficiency and capability, while accommodating growth, enhancement and modernization, by using backbone links with single radio channels to accommodate multiple data streams and protocols.
A distinct advantage of ENCOM’s wireless Wide Area Network is its mesh network capabilities, which allow a municipality’s mobile workforce to stay connected via either seamless connectivity or nomadic mobility — the use of wireless hot spots — depending on system configuration.
ENCOM wireless networks are flexible, enabling rapid expansion and adaptation without the time, expense, and ongoing costs that wired systems require. They also integrate with existing infrastructure to maximize data rates, reliability and efficiency while saving budget dollars and increasing ROI on legacy systems.
Each network is customizable, individualizing municipal technology infrastructures: enabling city-wide WiFi access; connecting all municipal departments and services via a single, cost-saving network; empowering mobile workforces. The possibilities are endless.
Imagine the benefits a dedicated, city-wide wireless communication network from ENCOM holds for your municipality.
ENCOM's serial and broadband products use license-free operating frequencies: 900 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 5.2 GHz, 5.3 GHz and 5.8 GHz.
Why choose an ENCOM solution?
The advantage of ENCOM wireless solutions for municipal Wide Area Networks:
Video surveillance: ENCOM’s 5.8 GHz, license-free broadband radios make video monitoring an extremely powerful security tool. ENCOM COMMPAK BB 58 radios provide a 54 Mbps data transfer rate in a point-to-multi-point scenario, enabling video cameras with pan tilt zoom control (PTZ) to transmit crisp, fluid video images using minimal bandwidth. The result is 24/7 security in public buildings, parks, transit stations and more.
Mobile connectivity: For city employees on the go, strategically placed dual radio mesh network devices are perfect for keeping them connected, providing access to e-mail and key information like work orders and building blueprints.
Utilities monitoring and control: ENCOM’s COMMPAK BB broadband networks enable Automated Meter Reading (AMR), machine monitoring and other Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) applications for utilities management. Smart Grids are the way of the future and ENCOM’s wireless broadband networks are providing the secure communication infrastructure that is required to enable these advanced capabilities.
Intelligent Transportation Systems: The industry-leading performance of ENCOM’s COMMPAK BB 58 broadband radios deliver impeccable service levels for controller interconnect, vehicle detection systems, and other ITS requirements. Efficiency along roadways is increased, with minimal infrastructure investment.
Advanced transit systems: ENCOM’s broadband Ethernet radios, in conjunction with its serial products, provide such advances in public transit as advanced passenger information systems, transit vehicle pre-emption systems, and real-time passenger counts.
What's in it for me?
The key benefits of an ENCOM wireless solution for our municipal Wide Area Network customers:
DEPLOY EASILY, EXPAND RAPIDLY
Smooth, simple deployment is a distinct ENCOM advantage. Because our radios operate on license-free frequency bands, they can be positioned and repositioned without licenses or expensive engineering.
- Each ENCOM radio can act as master, remote or repeater, boosting the size and power of your wireless network.
- Mesh networking capabilities provide an extremely secure, reliable and flexible form of communication for the relay of critical information.
- Systems are easy to install, and receive ENCOM’s unwavering support and accurate system design through products such as the EP6500 Site Survey Kit, and the Broadband Site Survey Kit. ENCOM engineers will work with you to determine the optimal approach for your situation.
ENJOY ROBUST, RELIABLE PERFORMANCE
ENCOM’s products were built to shine in even the harshest environmental, topographical and radio-frequency environments imaginable. Dense foliage, building obstruction, high rainfall and snowfall, and extremes in elevation and temperature present no problems for ENCOM’s hardy product lines.
SAVE YOUR TIME AND YOUR MONEY
ENCOM’s wireless communications systems are far more economical than any hard-wired rivals. According to recent traffic industry studies, trenched copper cable costs as much as 10 times as wireless technology. Buried fiber optic cable can be 15 times as expensive.
Instead of requiring the costly and disruptive construction needed to install and expand wired systems, ENCOM radios simply attach to city buildings, traffic signals, towers, bridges, water reservoirs, and pump stations, as well as to existing fibre optic cable lines.
MAXIMIZE YOUR PREVIOUS INVESTMENT
ENCOM’s systems integrate with your current network, so your legacy equipment can work within a state-of-the-art wireless system. Your broadband Ethernet-based, future-minded wireless system instantly boosts data rate, efficiency and capability, and facilitates growth, expansion and modernization.
MULTITASK WITHOUT COMPROMISE
ENCOM’s COMMPAK BB units combine the latest in wireless networking technology and advanced network design to allow low-latency communications with multiple data-streams and protocols, and offering the possibility of crisp, fluid CCTV video with PTZ (pan tilt zoom) cameras.
ELIMINATE LEASING FEES AND SUBSTANDARD EQUIPMENT
When you choose a dedicated, wireless system, you eliminate antiquated, unreliable phone-circuit connections, and best of all, no more leased-line bills.
WORK WITH A GREAT PARTNER
ENCOM views its clients as long-term partners, putting an emphasis on service. We take a hands-on approach to your needs — from helping to design your wireless network, performing a terrain analysis, and ensuring radio path viability, to taking every step to maximize your investment now and in the future by considering system expansion, enhancement and modernization.
BE PROTECTED BY SUPERIOR WARRANTIES
Five-year warranties for serial data systems and three-year warranties for broadband systems guarantee you peace of mind and ensure a great return on your investment.
