Home Services Signup Support  About Us

Based on technologies in widespread use since the 1950's, Wireless Systems have a proven track record for both performance and reliability. Competitive technologies, such as wired cable and fiber optic cable, have several drawbacks in comparison.

Wired systems require the burial of physical cables. The construction costs for this can be as high as $200,000 per mile, and require easements be acquired for the ground in which they are buried. This is very expensive and time consuming.

Wireless systems require no cable or easements. Installed in buildings, the wireless radios talk to each other through the air. Utilizing point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios operating in the microwave bands, low and high speed connections can be made over distances of thousands of feet to tens of miles.

The Sky-Net network is made up of Multi-user Access Point Sites (MAPs) from which signals to customers are broadcast. The multiple access point is analogous to a wireless telephone cellular site.
These sites are tall buildingsor towers with line-of-site coverage to the surrounding area. A single MAP can handle between 100 and 600 users simultaneously, and can cover an area of 10 to 100 square miles (depending on terrain, population density, and engineering).

Each customer needs specific Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) at their location in order to connect into the Sky-Net system. The basic CPE consists of an intelligent appliance, a cable which runs from the card to an outdoor antenna, and the antenna, which is either a 24" grid dish, or a flat panel 10" square and 1" thick.

Sky-Net's system is made of state-of-the-art equipment, designed to be cost effective and to survive in harsh environments worldwide. Current equipment operates in the unlicensed low power microwave bands. Sky-Net's equipment and system designs is able to adequately serve millions of customers.