Generic Mobile selects Allgon Microwave as a supplier of microwave radios for wireless broadband network deployment

    strong> /24-7PressRelease/ - GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN, March 15, 2007 - Generic Mobile is a telecom operator and the leading supplier of critical communications in Sweden. Among other things, Generic Mobile owns and runs the Minicall radio network which has nationwide coverage and focus on companies with high demands on high availability. Nearly all of Sweden's emergency services, county councils, police and private security companies have chosen Generic Mobile for their critical communications.

Allgon Microwave and Generic Mobile have signed a supply agreement for IP based Ethernet Microwave Links. Generic will use both the medium capacity AMR Streamline platform (4-36 MBPS) as well as the high capacity AMR Transcend platform (50-100 MBPS) in the network.

"The main reason why we have chosen Allgon Microwave is that we have good experience from their radio links with high availability and the products total cost of ownership, but also because we want to evaluate their high capacity platform with sustained availability (ACM) during bad weather conditions", states Peter Thysell, Director Business Development at Generic Mobile.

"We see wireless broadband and IP networks in general as a key market, and Generic's commitment to quality and ambitious plans within the wireless broadband area is well in line with ours. Allgon Microwave's true Ethernet and IP based microwave products has got in-built features extremely suitable for wireless broadband networks. We have worked very hard to have the best product performance with regards to throughput, latency and jitter. The ACM-functionality in the AMR Transcend platform is yet another example of a function very well received and needed in the market place. These functionalities and capabilities are needed in order to meet the requirements when building a Wireless broadband network like Generic's doing", says Jörgen Pettersson, Sales Manager at Allgon Microwave.


About Allgon Microwave and Advantech AMT Group
Advantech AMT is a world-class designer and manufacturer of leading-edge communication products for Satellite Ground Stations and Terrestrial Wireless Communications. The equipment is used by both commercial and government customers to implement multimedia broadcast and telecommunication network systems.

Allgon Microwave is part of the Terrestrial business unit. With offices in Canada, Europe and the USA, Advantech AMT provides global product support expertise. The main products designed and manufactured by the company are Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA); Block-Up Converters (BUCs); frequency converters; modulators, demodulators and modems; broadband data networking systems; antenna tracking control systems; satellite terminals; point-to-point microwave links and other related sub-systems. Advantech is an ISO-9001:2000 certified organization.

Allgon Microwave is an international company specializing in high quality point-to-point microwave radios and services, with two offices, one situated in Gothenburg (Sweden) and the second in Montreal (Canada). Allgon Microwave focuses on lowest cost of ownership and is a pioneer when it comes to Ethernet availability and throughput over the air. We pride ourselves as the only supplier of a 512 QAM radio. Allgon Microwave also offers SDH/SONET, PDH and Ethernet microwaves radios for both ETSI and ANSI standards. For our customers, this means seamless wire- less IP and voice transmission solutions with unique features, extremely flexible capacity, intuitive web based management and low network implementation costs.

To find out more about Allgon Microwave, please visit our website at www.allgonmicrowave.com.

For any further questions, please contact:

North America
Anthony Orlando
Tel. + 1 514 4200045
Fax + 1 514 420 0073
Vice-President Sales Americas
[email protected]

Europe
Jörgen Pettersson
Tel. + 46 31 771 7999
Fax + 46 31 771 7910
Regional Sales Manager
[email protected]

About Generic Mobile
Telecom operator Generic Mobile, which is part of the IT and telecom group Generic Sweden, specializes in messaging services. Practically all of Sweden's rescue services, county councils, police and private alarm companies use Generic Mobile's solutions for their mission critical communications. Generic Mobile operates the messaging service Minicall with about 80,000 customers. It also offers text messaging for fixed-network phones and mobile broadband with high-speed data transfers. The Generic group has about 70 employees and the company's shares have been listed on NGM Equity since October 2006 under the abbreviation GENI.

For any further questions please visit the web site or contact:

Generic Mobile
www.generic.se
Mats Hugosson
CEO
Tel. +46 8 601 38 00
[email protected]

Peter Thysell
Director Business Development
Tel. +46 8 601 66 11
Fax +46 8 601 38 51
[email protected]

Allgon Microwave is an innovative IP/Ethernet based microwave radio company providing software intense solutions. Allgon Microwave delivers its own digital P-t-P microwave radio products in the 7-38 GHz frequency bands, with value-added features that set market standards. The Allgon Microwave unique "true Ethernet" solutions feature Flat Throughput and Extremely Low Latency. They also include e-t-e flow control, full 802.1p/Q QoS, VLAN support (QnQ_1536Bytes), direct 3G Node B to RNC input, integrated Ethernet switch, TDM functionality, Ethernet statistics monitoring and a superb SNMP-based management system. Customers include major mobile operators, Fixed Wireless Access networks and private networks (governments, enterprise, data, broadband, and internet). Allgon Microwave supplies the only fully seamless IP/Ethernet microwave radio backhaul to the UMTS TDD and WiMAX communities.
For further information, please visit our web site www.allgomicrowave.com, contact us at +46 31 771 7900 or send us an E-mail at [email protected]

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