Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Top 10 Wireless ISP Equipment Vendors

There are numerous equipment vendors in the broadband wireless industry selling equipment that allows wireless Internet service providers (WISPs) to provide wireless high-speed Internet access to residential, business and roaming wireless customers.

Over the past six years, we have interviewed hundreds of vendors, talked to thousands of wireless ISP operators and even more wireless end users.

BWE attends a long list of tradeshows, industry conferences and vendor training sessions to get a sense of what technology is available to customers as well as learn the difference between the marketing hype and how the equipment actually performs in the field.

Many newcomers ask for a short list of vendors they should consider when evaluating equipment specs, pricing, customer service, support after the sale and customer satisfaction.

This list below represents what BWE considers to be Top 10 Wireless ISP Equipment Vendors in the broadband wireless industry based on what we know about the vendors as well as what their customers say about their product lines.

Top 10 Wireless ISP Equipment Vendors:

Tranzeo Wireless Technologies
WiNetworks WiMAX
Trango Broadband Wireless
Cisco Outdoor Wireless Solutions
DigitalPath Technology
Aperto Networks
Sputnik Wi-Fi Hotspots
Value Point Mesh Routers and Gateways
Airpath (billing systems)

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