Posted: 11th Nov, 2009 By: MarkJ
CI-Net's high-speed fixed wireless ( WiMAX ) Internet access service for businesses,
RedKite, is now available in ten UK locations in a burstable uncontended 20Mbps (symmetric - same speed both ways) format from £3,000 per year. The service is being rolled out to cities, town centres and business parks around the UK based on demand.
CI-Net's MD, Graham McLean said:
"Burstable RedKite gives customers extra flexibility and peace of mind. They know they are covered if they have short periods when they need a bit of extra bandwidth. This could be down to performing a big online backup for example or a sudden increase in web traffic if they host their own web site or just the odd busy period in the month when they need a slightly bigger 'Internet pipe'.
In some instances, businesses choose RedKite as an additional connection alongside their traditional cable based service. Because it's totally separate from any BT or carrier provided service, it gives them extra resilience and supports business continuity. We can set it up so a customer can make use of all the bandwidth from both the wireless and their traditional wired service and configure them to automatically failover to each other if one experiences a problem."
The RedKite service using WiMAX technology lets customers 'burst' up to 20Mbps to cover spikes in Internet activity, but only as long as they keep within their contracted data rates (2, 5 or 10Mbps) for the majority of the time. The service is available in a growing number of UK locations including Central London, Birmingham and Oxford.