SkyWay-MAX 3.65 GHz

An Affordable End-to-End WiMAX Platform Designed Specifically for WISPs

Designed & Supported by Solectek in the USA

Solectek hardware and software engineers, as well as technical support representatives, are located at our headquarters in San Diego, CA. Most of Solectek’s competitors are based out of countries as far as Israel and India, and some competitors subcontract their engineering work and/or technical support. At Solectek, the people who designed our 3.65 GHz base station are in the same building as sales, marketing and technical support personnel, and we’re ready to help when you need us. You will be hard pressed to find another U.S. WiMAX company, actually making products in the U.S. If your company has applied for grants and loans through the USDA broadband program, this is an especially important issue, since such USDA grants and loans can only be applied toward U.S. manufactured products. Solectek 3.65 WiMAX products are USDA accepted with "Buy American" status.

The Affordable WiMAX Platform — Optimized for WISPs

Solectek’s end-to-end WiMAX platform has been designed from the ground up for small to mid-size WISPs, rather than large carriers. If one of our competitors has tried to sell you one of their “carrier-class” base stations, which can be 50% or more expensive per tower site, harder to install and even more challenging to operate, you will be pleasantly surprised when Solectek provides a quotation and detailed description of our platform’s competitive advantages. Solectek understands that ROI is high on the list of priorities when it comes to operating a WISP. Our system is optimized for fixed broadband delivery to homes, business and municipalities within a WISP business model. Ask about a trial kit, so you can see for yourself.

Local Authentication, ideal for reliable WISP networks

With Solectek’s 3.65 GHz system, authentication information is stored in the base station. Many competing systems store this information in a separate Authentication Server. If that Remote Authentication Server goes down, the entire network can go down. For small to medium size WISPs it is much safer to have the authentication information stored right at the base station, rather than introduce what could be a single point of failure for the entire network. With Solectek, you will have the option of both worlds, Local or Remote Authentication.

Questions to ask before you purchase a WiMAX 3.65 GHz system from any vendor

		Solectek	Others
1.	Is your base station manufactured in the U.S., so I can use my USDA loan proceeds?	YES
2.	Does your system have Local Authentication, to ensure that the entire network isn’t brought down by an authentication server problem?	YES
3.	Is your base station and CPE cost competitive?	YES
4.	Can I start with just one base station and no indoor components, then expand the network as I grow?	YES
5.	Do you provide a simple graphical user interface for managing devices (as opposed to an expensive Element Management System)?	YES
6.	Does your base station provide the option for failover/redundancy, to ensure customer uptime?	YES
7.	Does your system support 3.5 and 7 MHz channel bandwidth?	YES
8.	Is your base station capable of 4 Watts/200 EIRP (note: actual power in U.S. is limited by FCC)?	YES
9.	Does your base station have a sectoral antenna such that I can adjust without obsolescing my investment?	YES
10.	Can one Indoor Controller chassis support up to 8 sectors?	YES
11.	Is the antenna for the CPE integrated/included, such that I do not have to purchase antennas?	YES
12.	Does the CPE have “plug-and-play” capability, so I can save money on installation time?	YES
13.	Are you a U.S. company, backed by the support of the engineers, operations personnel and support representatives in the U.S.?	YES
14.	Do warranty repair products/RMA’s get sent to a facility in the United States?	YES
15.	Has your company been stable/dependable and in business for 20 years?	YES

Notes: Actual usable output power in the United States is limited by the FCC.