Transwave Communications Systems was awarded a contract to upgrade the existing Wireless Wide Area Network for the Town of Tonawanda, NY.  The upgrade forklifts all sites that are currently serviced by the Town's existing microwave system to new state of the art broadband equipment.  The new system procured by the Town includes backbone equipment that operates in a licensed frequency band.  This equipment is manufactured by Harris Stratex, and it will establish a 300 Mbps broadband connection between two (2) key Town sites for converged traffic.  The contract also upgrades all other sites utilizing Alvarion's Breeze Access 4900 equipment.  This equipment will operate in the new 4.9 GHz "Licensed" Public Safety band.  This equipment is much better equipped to handle the Town's broadband demands in a secure and uncluttered frequency band.  The value of this contract is $211,484.81.  The contract was awarded in December of 2008.  Completion is planned for Spring of 2009.

News Release (7/10/09):

The NFTA has awarded a contract to Transwave Communications Systems Inc. to install a private broadband network that will interconnect its Metro Garages to its main communications hub for voice, video and broadband communications. The network will be hybrid utilizing existing NFTA fiber segments and new high capacity microwave segments. Transwave is a WNY owned and based company that provides turnkey enterprise microwave systems throughout the Northeast and Internet and Metro Ethernet services locally.