MARINA DEL REY,
Calif. – Sept. 28, 2005 – 5G Wireless Solutions,
Inc., an emerging leader in the wireless
broadband industry and a wholly-owned portfolio
company of 5G Wireless Communications, Inc. (OTCBB:FGWC
-
News), a business development company,
announced today that it has introduced the
LongRanger, a new product that helps to extend
the effective service range of its wireless
broadband base stations to laptops, desktops and
PDAs.
"The LongRanger was
designed for users who absolutely, positively
have to connect," stated Jerry Dix, CEO of 5G
Wireless Communications. "With the LongRanger
kit, a remote user can take advantage of
extended distances, well beyond the limits of
traditional WiFi hot spots."
The new product helps
solve an industry-wide problem. While access
points and base stations do an effective job of
getting a WiFi signal out to a user community,
many laptops and PDAs do not produce a strong
enough return path signal to get back to the
source. The LongRanger not only boosts the range
factor but also increases connection speeds in
the process.
The easy to install "plug
and play" unit does not require any special
software drivers, functions independently of
one's operating system, and does not require a
PCI or PCMCIA slot. It provides robust
connections in frequency-hostile environments
while remaining compliant to the IEEE 802.11b
standard, and extends flexible wireless access
to a wide variety of commercial hardware
including industrial equipment, barcode readers,
medical scanners, and network cameras.
The LongRanger will be
made available in both USB and traditional power
source models, and can increase wireless
broadband signal strength to well over a mile.
And since it is 802.11b compliant, it will work
with most manufacturers' access points and base
stations. The 5G model will be introduced at the
new Dana Point Harbor Wi-Fi network in Southern
California and promoted in other distribution
channels where immediate connectivity is
required for laptops, desktops and PDAs.
About 5G Wireless
Solutions, Inc.
5G Wireless Solutions,
Inc., located in Marina del Rey, CA, is a
wholly-owned portfolio company of 5G Wireless
Communications, Inc. (OTCBB:
FGWC -
News), a business development company. The
company develops and sells wireless broadband
solutions for university and municipal campuses,
and provides networking equipment to a select
group of VARs and WISPs. Users enjoy high
performance internet access at lower
acquisition, implementation and maintenance
costs than most major competitors due to
uniquely enhanced WiFi access points. 5G
Wireless Solutions products are distinguished by
their exceptional service area range, throughput
speeds, number of concurrent users,
non-line-of-sight capabilities and unique
security protocol. These enhancements are
compatible with standard IEEE 802.11b WiFi
equipment for "last mile" roaming and
point-to-multipoint networks.
