Texas School District Implements State-of-the-Art Broadband Wireless Solution Delivered by Proxim and IBM Global Services
30 Novembro 2004 - 11:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Texas School District Implements State-of-the-Art Broadband
Wireless Solution Delivered by Proxim and IBM Global Services IBM
Global Services Offers Proxim Broadband Wireless Products to
Customers SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Proxim Corporation (NASDAQ:PROX), a global leader in wireless
networking equipment for Wi-Fi and broadband wireless networks,
today announced that Proxim and IBM Global Services have delivered
a broadband wireless solution for the Texas-based Canyon
Independent School District (CISD), a 15-campus educational
organization dedicated to excellence in K through 12 schooling.
With a new converged voice and data network that was designed and
built by IBM and that utilizes Proxim's Tsunami Broadband Wireless
Access (BWA) systems for its high-speed wireless infrastructure,
CISD can now provide its 7,500 students and its faculty and staff
including over 1,000 teachers, with high-speed access to critical
learning applications and to the Internet. The new network has
enabled CISD to offer a nearly 100% increase in computer hours for
its students with 20 additional hours of computer time per week,
per student. Students can now access a rich set of district
learning materials including self-paced courses to earn high-school
and college credit, and teachers can now access testing tools and
applications that allow them to better assess students and direct
their instruction to meet individual student requirements.
Furthermore, CISD achieved these goals cost-effectively, at about
half the cost of a fiber-based solution. Canyon ISD's
communications system is one of the best available, as a result of
the work done by IBM and Proxim," said Ken Burt, CIO of CISD. "Not
only was the solution less costly than the fiber-based alternatives
we evaluated, but it was implemented in about one-third of the
time. We are excited about the new efficiencies and learning
opportunities our staff and students will experience as a result of
the new network." "IBM is providing innovative wireless systems to
answer the needs of schools and universities across the United
States," said Scott Stainken, General Manager, IBM Wireless
e-Business. " We believe Canyon is giving its students, faculty and
administration a learning edge through the IBM and Proxim network."
IBM Global Services offers Proxim's portfolio of BWA solutions to
enterprise business customers, government agencies and
municipalities, school districts and service providers. These
solutions provide customers with cost-effective, best-in-class
solutions for last mile access, LAN extension, metropolitan area
networking and public safety and surveillance applications. The
combination of Proxim's broadband wireless portfolio with IBM
Global Services' extensive experience in network design,
implementation and support, gives customers significant cost and
deployment advantages for these applications. "We believe that
together, Proxim and IBM Global Services offer a compelling
customer solution for broadband wireless access," said Kevin Duffy,
President and Chief Operating Officer at Proxim. "We will work
together closely to pursue opportunities in the enterprise,
wireless internet service provider and state and local government
markets." About Proxim Proxim(R) Corporation is a global leader in
wireless networking equipment for Wi-Fi and broadband wireless
networks. The company provides enterprise and service provider
customers with wireless solutions for the mobile enterprise,
security and surveillance, last mile access, voice and data
backhaul, public hot spots, and metropolitan area networks. Product
families include the Award-winning ORiNOCO Wi-Fi products, Tsunami
Ethernet bridges, and Lynx point-to-point digital radios. Proxim is
a principal member of the WiMAX Forum(TM) and a member of the
Wi-Fi(R) Alliance. The company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ
under the symbol PROX and is on the Web at http://www.proxim.com/.
Safe Harbor This press release may contain forward-looking
statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements are
subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results
to differ materially from Proxim's expectations in these
statements. For additional information regarding risks relating to
Proxim's business, see Proxim Corporation's Form 10-K for the year
ended December 31, 2003 and Forms 10-Q for quarters ended April 2,
2004, July 2, 2004 and October 1, 2004. Current Reports on Form
8-K, and other relevant materials filed by Proxim with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Proxim assumes no obligation
and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements.
DATASOURCE: Proxim Corporation CONTACT: Sylvia Clark of Proxim
Corporation, +1-408-542-3357, or ; or Lori S. Hultin of LSH
Communications, +1-818-879-4651, or , for Proxim Corporation Web
site: http://www.proxim.com/
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