June 22, 2017 Ottawa, Canada — Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc. (YFI; TSX.V), a wireless innovation company and the developer of WiFi3™ the industry’s first multi-channel technology for high-density WiFi and IOT applications, today announced 2Plus Wireless Solutions Ltd. as the company’s newest distribution partner. 2Plus Wireless will serve as the exclusive provider of Edgewater’s EAP series and AERA series access points in Israel.
2Plus has been a leading wireless infrastructure company in Israel since 2003 and the company has designed and deployed some of the largest wireless installations in the country. 2Plus has deep experience in advanced access control for RF systems. The company focuses on provisioning Enterprise WiFi network planning, deployment and support services for high density WiFi networks. The company is the largest provider of wireless solutions for hospitality, hotels and public venues throughout Israel. According to IDC, Israel is one of the fastest growing markets for Enterprise WiFi globally achieving 54% year over year growth in 2016.
“Deploying WiFi in Israel is complicated and we want to lead the market with reliable, advanced technology that can handle the challenges of our customer deployments,.” said Benny Birenbaum, Founder and CEO of 2Plus Wireless Solutions. “Edgewater Wireless WiFi3-powered access points allow us to build a robust and stable WiFi network that can handle both capacity and density of users and layer them across multiple channels on the same radio. WiFi3 makes WiFi better and solves the unique challenges we face when deploying WiFi in Israel. “Edgewater Wireless WiFi3 is ideally suited for wireless networks in Israel where utilizing 5GHz WiFi spectrum is restricted. Edgewater Wireless’ WiFi3 will maximize WiFi spectrum for indoor and outdoor deployments. 2Plus will also leverage WiFI3’s MESHD Mesh Networking Technology and WiFi3’s proprietary PowerZoning Channel Power Management Technology to maximize WiFi network performance in 2Plus Smart City Outdoor Deployments.
“We are excited to be working with a truly ground breaking innovator of WiFi solutions to bring Edgewater Wireless’ EAP and aera™ access points to solve capacity and interference issues in Israel.” said Andrew Skafel, President & CEO of Edgewater Wireless. “Israel is an extremely challenging market for traditional WiFi with some significant spectrum limitations. 2Plus has been providing innovative network solutions to their customers for the past 13 years and are now working with us because other WiFi vendors are challenged to deliver capacity and coverage in high density. They can now exclusively provide WiFi3-powered products to solve the complex challenges of WiFi within extremely limited spectrum throughout Israel.”
Edgewater’s WiFi3™ powered technology is the best WiFi solution for carriers, service providers and systems integrators in high-density WiFi applications to address the evolving issues of adjacent channel and co-channel interference and congestion which is stretching WiFi to its breaking point. The terms of the agreement with 2Plus includes an initial stocking order of WiFi3 equipment and demonstration equipment, training sessions with 2Plus’ technical team, as well as quarterly sales targets and on going reporting by 2Plus as sales develop. Edgewater’s patented technology solves the high-density WiFi problem while also significantly reducing the equipment investment and operating costs for new network deployments.