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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Chooses LGC Wireless
for Mobile Wireless Coverage
Multi-Carrier InterReach™ Unison System Will Serve All Major
Cellular Providers and Public Safety Network in World’s Busiest
Passenger Airport
San Jose, Calif., January 19, 2006—LGC Wireless, the leader
in advanced in-building wireless systems, today announced that
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has installed
the company’s InterReach™ Unison system to deliver
cellular and public safety wireless coverage throughout the airport’s
5.8 million square foot facility. The multi-operator system has
been funded by the airport itself, and will provide coverage in
its terminal as well as in the underground transportation mall
with a train system that runs throughout the airport’s concourses.
The InterReach Unison system will support traffic for all major
cellular network carriers as well as the airport’s own public
safety organizations.
The new wireless system is part of a telecommunications upgrade
project to maintain Hartsfield-Jackson Airport’s position
as the world’s busiest, most advanced, and most efficient
air terminal. Hartsfield-Jackson Airport’s previous legacy
wireless extension systems (supplied by Cingular, Sprint Nextel,
and Verizon) did not cover the entire airport. The City of Atlanta
and the airport wanted to deploy and operate a system to offer
ubiquitous coverage for cellular and public safety traffic in the
850MHz and 1900MHz frequency ranges. Implementing a multi-operator
system is a strategic effort in the airport’s continued mission
to exceed customer expectations.
“Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport continually
strives to offer state-of-the art facilities that maximize our
customer convenience as well as the efficiency of our operations
personnel, and ensuring comprehensive wireless coverage is certainly
part of that effort,” said Lance Lyttle, CIO of Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport. “LGC Wireless had a system
with the flexibility, scalability, and performance to support all
of our wireless traffic today, and to allow for cost-effective
integration of new services and applications in the future.”
LGC’s InterReach Unison system is the industry’s leading
Distributed Antenna System (DAS). It uses active Ethernet-based
technology and standard fiber and copper transport cabling to deliver
cost-effective, high-performance wireless coverage for any frequency
spectrum across areas of any size. Thanks to its active hub architecture,
InterReach Unison is familiar to IT personnel and is one of the
few systems on the market with full end-to-end monitoring and management.
In addition, the system scales easily to serve office buildings
and public facilities from less than 100,000 square feet in size
on up. At Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, the InterReach Unison system
uses 36 main hubs, 96 expansion hubs, and more than 700 individual
antennas.
“We are proud to be the wireless infrastructure provider
for the world’s busiest airport,” said Ian Sugarbroad,
president and CEO of LGC Wireless. “Our system’s massive
scalability, service flexibility, and cost-effectiveness are key
reasons why airports such as New York’s JFK, London Heathrow,
Detroit Metropolitan, Dallas Love Field, Denver International,
and now Hartsfield-Jackson are choosing LGC Wireless for comprehensive,
high-performance coverage.”
About LGC Wireless
With more than 5,500 deployments worldwide, LGC Wireless is the
leader in extending scalable, high-performance wireless coverage
inside buildings and public facilities. LGC’s products offer
low-cost installation, end-to-end monitoring and management, and
easy integration of emerging wireless technologies. LGC Wireless
is based in San Jose, California and is privately held. For more
information, please visit www.lgcwireless.com.
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