Northumberland Selects SkyPilot for County Wireless Network

New Network to Provide 'Last-Mile' and Wi-Fi Hotspots Services
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
SkyPilot Networks, a leading provider of carrier-class broadband
wireless networks, today announced that the Northumberland County
Council has awarded KBR IT & Networking Solutions, a SkyPilot AirPower
Channel Partner, to install a new wireless data network throughout
Northumberland, a county in northeastern England. The network, powered
by SkyPilot equipment, will provide wireless connectivity from the
county's multi-gigabit fibre core to various county services.

Northumberland Computer Services Division was short listed in the
2008 Best Practice Awards for the development of the North-Net "Beyond
Borders" project. This collaborative, partnership approach has also
contributed to the project being short listed in 2007 in the
"Innovative Project of the Year" category of the prestigious annual
Computing Awards for Excellence against major competition from
organisations such as Channel 4, BT and BBC Worldwide. The project
provides for a powerful new data network throughout the county, which
will put Northumberland into the United Kingdom's "Top 3" cutting-edge
performers for digital connectivity. Providing connectivity deployment
for the last mile delivery from the multi-gigabit fibre core across
the county from nine Points of Presence was seen as integral to the
project success.

Scheduled to be completed by end of June 2008, the Alnwick Town
cluster was allocated as the first test case for the project,
delivering not only public services to buildings but also providing
the availability of mobile access at street level. "This provides
mobile staff communications, seamlessly managing mesh backhaul traffic
back to the fibre core. The technology will provide excellent delivery
of e-Business, provide access for the Community at all levels and
provide the vehicle for last mile delivery for the North-Net fibre
core ring," said Frank Freeman, Project Manager for Northumberland
County Computer Services.

In order to meet these challenges, KBR, in conjunction with
SkyPilot's value-added distributor Avnet, was chosen to design and
deploy the network. Established for over 24 years, KBR has been
designing, installing and maintaining leading-edge solutions for
wireless data and voice applications in northern UK. "After extensive
testing, SkyPilot was chosen as the delivery platform because its
SkyExtender DualBand offers integrated client access for serving
various public and municipal applications, whilst also giving full
failover resilience," said Gareth Tomlin, Technical Director of
Wireless for KBR.

"Northumberland is leveraging the advanced solution from SkyPilot
to provide a valuable broadband wireless network throughout the
county," said Dennis Stipati, vice president of worldwide sales at
SkyPilot. "By combining SkyPilot's 5 GHz multi-hop backhaul with
customer premise equipment (CPE) and 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi, this network will
provide both 'last-mile' access to municipal buildings, schools and
hospitals as well as hotspots to areas like the Alnwick Castle."

About SkyPilot Networks

SkyPilot Networks is a leading provider of carrier-class broadband
wireless equipment that enables service providers, municipalities, and
public safety agencies to rapidly deploy cost-effective network
services, including last-mile Internet access, voice over IP, Wi-Fi
hotspots, video surveillance, and other wireless applications. The
SkyPilot solution utilizes a patented multi-hop point-to-multipoint
architecture that synchronizes high-gain directional antennas to
extend reach, mitigate interference, and maximize spectral efficiency.
The result is a highly scalable, reliable, and deterministic broadband
wireless network that simplifies design, increases deployment
flexibility, and dramatically reduces equipment and operating costs.
SkyPilot has proven scalability and reliability with over 35,000 units
shipped to customers in over 50 countries. SkyPilot is a privately
held company based in Santa Clara, California. For more information on
SkyPilot and its solutions, contact pr@skypilot.com or visit
http://www.skypilot.com.

SkyPilot Networks
Brian Jenkins, 408-764-8081
Vice President, Marketing
bjenkins@skypilot.com

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