ip.access Goes to Antarctica

ip.access ltd. is supplying The INVESCO PERPETUAL Challenge: Expedition Trans-Antarctica with nanoGSM technology to create a private mobile phone network in the world's highest, driest and coldest continent.

The GSM solution provided by ip.access will allow a two vehicle Land Rover team to communicate as they traverse 700 miles to the South Pole to provide a re-supply of provisions and specialist kites to a second team of four skiers. The teams, who will have begun on opposite sides of the continent, will then race back together from the South Pole in an attempt to achieve the record for the fastest ski team to cross Antarctica.

To create the private GSM network, one Land Rover vehicle will be equipped with ip.access' nanoBTS GSM pico-basestation and MSC/BSC simulator package, NetSim, allowing mobile calls to be made to the other vehicle.

The ip.access nanoBTS is a GSM pico-basestation that uses IP networks to deliver cellular voice and data services in the smallest and most cost-effective package available today. Through the innovation of using IP as the backhaul medium, the nanoBTS provides coverage and capacity simply and efficiently. The nanoBTS is part of the ip.access nanoGSM solution, which allows network operators to boost mobile phone coverage in traditionally hard-to-reach areas, enabling new applications such as Wireless Office.

See also:

• ip.access to supply nanoGSM technology to SMART Communications


• Proxim ORiNOCO AP-700 Wi-Fi Access Point


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