Weekly infrastructure awards wrap-up

The following list details this week’s infrastructure awards for the cellular, Wi-Fi and WiMAX industries. The contracts are broken down by transmission technology, country and vendor. The value of the contract is included when available.

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Cellular

• Serbia: L.M. Ericsson and Telekom Serbia signed an agreement calling for Ericsson to supply equipment and services to expand and upgrade Telekom Serbia’s GSM/GPRS/EDGE network. The contract is valued at about $96 million.

   

• Tajikstan: Huawei said it has won a contract from VimpelCom to build a UMTS/GSM network for VimpelCom subsidiary TaCom.

Wi-Fi

• UAE: Proxim Wireless Corp. said it is providing equipment for a public Wi-Fi network at Dubai Internet City, a campus for global information technology companies located in the United Arab Emirates.

   

• United States: The New Orleans City Council approved an ordinance calling for EarthLink Inc. to build a 15-square-mile Wi-Fi network to replace the existing city-owned network. EarthLink plans to offer 300-kbps service free while the city continues to rebuild following Hurricane Katrina last year, with higher speed services available for a fee. In Joliet, Illinois, Proxim Wireless Inc. said it is providing equipment for a public Wi-Fi, Voice over Internet Protocol and secured merchant transaction processing network at the Bronk’s Corners retail and office location. In Texas, Cisco Systems and MobilePro won a contract to provide an outdoor wireless mesh networking system to the Dallas suburb of Farmers Branch. MobilePro will act as the Internet service provider and manage the network.

WiMAX

• North America: SR Telecom Inc. said it won a multi-year contract with Duke Energy Gas Transmission to provide its SymmetryMX solution to support voice and broadband data services, including system and data monitoring and control services for natural gas pipeline facilities throughout the Rocky Mountain region of northeastern British Columbia.

   

• Serbia: Aperto Networks said it provided its WiMAX-class PacketWave broadband wireless equipment to BeotelNet in Belgrade. BeotelNet is using the equipment for point-to-multipoint communications in the licensed 3.5 GHz band.

Miscellaneous

• Mexico: Nortel Networks said it provided a mesh networking solution to Mexico’s Universidad Autonoma de Sinaloa.

   

• Japan: The University of Tsukuba, a national university in Japan, is creating a ‘hotzone’ to provide seamless communications for students and faculty with wireless mesh networking equipment provided by Nortel Networks