Press Releases

KANATA, ONTARIO -- (MARKET WIRE) -- April 16, 2007 -- BelAir Networks, the leading provider of mobile broadband multi-service mesh networks, and Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc. (CWTI) announced today the availability of high-speed wireless access throughout Primm, Nevada. Primm Valley Casino Resorts is the community's main attraction featuring three casinos, two golf courses and the Desperado, one of the top ten rollercoasters in the U.S. Primm hosts 400,000 visitors per year.

"In addition to the high quality of service and performance that BelAir Networks offers, the system was also extremely easy to deploy. We were up and running in our first phase within days," said Mitchell Gonzalez, President and Founder of Cheetah Wireless Technologies. "We expect the high ROI offered by the wireless network to both residents and visitors will enable the network to pay for itself in only six months."

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Airliners that touch down in front of Mitchell Gonzalez's front door are loaded with Las Vegas tourists ready to escape the daily grind and connect with Sin City's gambling, eating and partying opportunities.

Gonzalez, president of Cheetah Wireless Technologies, wants to make sure that even amid the haze of casino smoke and din of clanging slot machines the tourists maintain some connection to the outside world, at least as much of it as they can download by laptop computer.

The Brooklyn native who grew up in Puerto Rico is overseeing development of an outdoor wireless network that covers downtown Las Vegas, will soon expand to the Strip and eventually, if Gonzalez plays Cheetah's cards right, could be available throughout the Las Vegas Valley.

On a recent weekday 60 people on the Strip and 35 downtown were logged on to Cheetah's wireless, or Wi-Fi, network. During the International Consumer Electronics Show, there were 505 active accounts. The audience is expected to grow exponentially during the Vegas Grand Prix, which could draw as many as 150,000 fans today through Sunday. Cheetah has agreed to provide free connections during the event, which means anyone with a Wi-Fi-enabled laptop will be able to use the service.

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March 28, 2007 (Computerworld) -- With the lure of 40 million tourists annually and a growing population, the Las Vegas area is also attracting lots of interest in Wi-Fi networks by companies hoping to cash in on the swarms of Internet users looking for high-speed Web access.

Earlier this month, the city of Las Vegas and neighboring Clark County -- where most of the famed Las Vegas Strip casinos and hotels are located -- entered into a consulting agreement with municipal broadband and Wi-Fi consultantancy Civitium LLC (download PDF) for a feasibility study on the creation of a municipal or privately-owned Wi-Fi network covering a large area around the city. Meanwhile, local Internet access provider Cheetah Wireless Technologies Inc. is in the midst of rolling out a large fee-based Wi-Fi network that aims to cover all the hotels and casinos in the city and on the Strip by year's end.

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Las Vegas, Nevada – March 30, 2007 - Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of specialized wireless mesh network solutions announced today the completion of its mega upgrade to the existing High Speed Wireless Network along the Hwy. 101 corridor in Downtown Encinitas, California – Mainstreet.

With this upgrade, users will experience improved network speeds from the previous 11mbs (802.11b) network, to a now soaring 54mbs (802.11 b/g) network. In addition to speed, the network also provides better VPN connections, higher levels of security and encryption, and enhanced expandability for future network deployments. This also opens the pipe for additional services like VOIP and surveillance cameras.

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There is still no such thing as a free lunch, but there is free wireless broadband Internet during lunch. Downtown Encinitas, CA MainStreet Association (DEMA) and Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc. (CWTI) are proudly offering “Wireless Wednesdays.” Since last August, DEMA has sponsored free wireless Internet service every Wednesday between 11am and 2pm.

Wireless Wednesdays is focused on the user looking for wireless mobility, creativity and connectivity. “Getting out of the office into a more creative environment enhances productivity,” said Mitch Gonzalez of CWTI. “In 2005, for the first time in history, more laptops were sold than desktops. The reason, mobility and wireless Internet. Users are demanding a less rigid environment and the ability to access Internet throughout their communities. And what better place than Historic Hwy 101 in Downtown Encinitas” added Gonzalez.

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A giant neon cowboy beams down at us. It's Vegas Vic, the smiling, smoking, mechanical icon of downtown Las Vegas. I'm sitting in the back seat of an SUV driven by Mitchell Gonzalez, president and founder of Cheetah Wireless Technologies Inc., a small start-up located in a cookie-cutter business park directly opposite Las Vegas's busy McCarran International Airport. I'm surfing the Web at healthy broadband speeds - 1.5 megabits per second or so - as we drive around a 5-square-kilometer patch of the city where Cheetah is adding the finishing touches to a pilot mobile broadband wireless network.

I'm here because this little district of casinos, hotels, wedding chapels, and souvenir stores could be the ground from which the seeds of a telecommunications revolution will grow. Cheetah's mobile network is one of the first municipal installations to use mesh wireless technology, which will allow users to access the Internet anywhere within the coverage area - even if they're driving at 100 kilometers per hour. If the technology is adopted by the City of Las Vegas and other municipalities beyond, it will herald the arrival of a major player in mobile broadband, leapfrogging cellular technologies and next-generation WiMax.

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Las Vegas public safety workers are piloting a six-month trial of mesh networking. Located along a two and a half square mile portion of downtown Las Vegas, the wireless network from MeshNetworks and Cheetah Wireless could expand throughout the city and become a model for the entire state.

The Las Vegas Traffic Engineering Department, along with Metro Police and Fire Services, will use the mesh network to transmit large data files, have remote access to the Emergency Vehicle Preemption system, remotely monitor video cameras at city intersections, maintain communication between field personnel, and allow "instant tactical networking."

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The city of Las Vegas Traffic Engineering Department, city public-safety and city code enforcement agencies are testing a new wireless mesh network that may soon cover the entire Las Vegas metro area. In conjunction with the Freeway and Arterial System of Transportation organization (FAST) of Nevada, the city is piloting the high-speed network for traffic management applications.

Unlike cellular and other mobile broadband technologies, the system being used in Las Vegas offers symmetric uplink and downlink data rates of 512Kbps to 1.5Mbps, and provides "always-on" connectivity, even in a car traveling at speeds over 100mph. The network integrates easily with the city's existing applications, computer systems and core network infrastructure, and the rugged hardware and robust software that makes up the system has been proven to reliably operate in the extreme summer and winter temperatures found in the Las Vegas desert.

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ENCINITAS - If all goes according to plan, this city's downtown soon will be a lunchtime mecca for local white-collar workers, who will come here to wine, dine and surf. The Internet, that is.

The Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association is working with a wireless technology company to install a broadband Internet "hot spot", an area of downtown where businesses, residents and visitors can go online from any location without the use of wires.

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Las Vegas, NV and Kanata, Ontario -/August 05, 2004 - The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- The coastal town of Encinitas, California, will soon offer scalable, metro Wi-Fi access in its downtown. The solution, built on BelAir Networks' scalable wide area Wi-Fi system, will be deployed and managed by Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc. (CWTI) and used by municipal, business and residential users in Encinitas' historic downtown.

Users will be able to connect to the Internet wirelessly from inside buildings, outside cafes, backyard patios, front lobbies, porches, and just about anywhere else - ideal for Encinitas' balmy year-round weather. The Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association, a non-profit corporation working to revitalize Historic Downtown Encinitas, will promote and advertise the service to local businesses, residents and visitors.

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Encinitas, California will be offering Wi-Fi throughout its downtown area to residents and visitors starting in September as part of the city's downtown revitalization program. Encinitas is a beautiful beach and surfing community, located 25 miles (40 km) north of San Diego, and 95 miles (153 km) south of Los Angeles. It's fun to see all these surf communities deploy Wi-Fi networks. Hermosa Beach is launching theirs next week and the difference is that they are not charging for access.

The network consists of eight BelAir200 nodes deployed from the tops of buildings covering 18 blocks, stretching from Encinitas Boulevard to K Street, with Vulcan Avenue and Second Street forming the east and west boundaries. Cheetah Wireless Technologies will operate the network from its network operation center (NOC) in Las Vegas and will charge residents and businesses a monthly fee of $29.99 and $39.99 respectively, for one-year contracts.

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Las Vegas, NV and Kanata, Ontario -/August 04, 2004 - The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- The coastal town of Encinitas, California, will soon offer scalable, metro Wi-Fi access in its downtown. The solution, built on BelAir Networks' scalable wide area Wi-Fi system, will be deployed and managed by Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc. (CWTI) and used by municipal, business and residential users in Encinitas' historic downtown.

Users will be able to connect to the Internet wirelessly from inside buildings, outside cafes, backyard patios, front lobbies, porches, and just about anywhere else - ideal for Encinitas' balmy year-round weather. The Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association, a non-profit corporation working to revitalize Historic Downtown Encinitas, will promote and advertise the service to local businesses, residents and visitors.

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Las Vegas, NV and Kanata, Ontario -/August 04, 2004 - The Wi-Fi Technology Forum/- The coastal town of Encinitas, California, will soon offer scalable, metro Wi-Fi access in its downtown. The solution, built on BelAir Networks' scalable wide area Wi-Fi system, will be deployed and managed by Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc. (CWTI) and used by municipal, business and residential users in Encinitas' historic downtown.

Users will be able to connect to the Internet wirelessly from inside buildings, outside cafes, backyard patios, front lobbies, porches, and just about anywhere else - ideal for Encinitas' balmy year-round weather. The Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association, a non-profit corporation working to revitalize Historic Downtown Encinitas, will promote and advertise the service to local businesses, residents and visitors.

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ENCINITAS - The Downtown Encinitas MainStreet Association has contracted with firms from Las Vegas and Canada to install and maintain a wireless Internet network covering the city's seven-block downtown district.

A wireless fidelity, or "Wi-Fi," network should be operational between Encinitas Boulevard and K Street by Sept. 1, the association's executive director, Peder Norby, said Tuesday.

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