July 28, 2017
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Jessica Witt, Marketing Specialist, 5NINES llc
608-512-1005, jwitt@5nines.com
5NINES Introduces 5M Mobile Data Network in Downtown Madison
MADISON, WIS., July 28, 2017-- 5NINES, a locally owned Cloud service provider, is launching a mobile data network downtown Madison dubbed “5M.” Starting in June 2014, 5NINES’ 5M will offer access to premium mobile wireless connections in downtown Madison. 5NINES will be constructing two pilot cell sites, with the pair residing at 222 West Washington Ave, and The Madison Mark building at 132 E. Wilson. The two sites will provide coverage for the capitol area, State Street, and the near area, with best results being within one mile of either site.
“5NINES intends to grow this network over time. We are looking to cover the entire downtown area, west to Hilldale Mall and east to the Yahara Bay area,” says Todd Streicher, President and CEO of 5NINES.
To connect to the network, one will need to purchase a portable hotspot device, or a USB modem. The special 5M modem rapidly finds the best 5M base station and automatically optimize the radio connection. Each 5M hotspot can support in excess of 100 devices, while the USB stick naturally supports only a single PC at a time. This contrasts with cellular providers, who often limit their hotspots to 5 devices, or fewer.
While cellular hotspots and modems are mainstream, 5NINES has found several ways to improve mobile the user situation. To start, 5NINES 5M has zero usage or transfer caps. This is truly an unlimited service. Further, there is no rate-limiting or rate-shaping enforced at an arbitrary usage threshold.
“Unlike traditional carriers, we don’t have a national interest,” says Anton Kapela, 5NINES VP of Network and Data Center Services. “Our interest is a single city. We are dedicated to making awesome wireless technology accessible in Madison, not building elaborate billing and tracking systems.”
Since the 5M base stations are physically small in size, 5NINES can deploy them permanently or semi-permanently, and can quickly establish service similar in an under-served area, comparable to the traditional “cell on wheels” concept popularized by national carriers.
“Our network can be useful for applications that benefit from higher upstream speeds. That speed enables remote audio and video transmission – something modern news, media, and reporting depends on,” says Kapela. “Think of the possibilities for the events that happen downtown, many of which can’t normally get an audio or video stream out to the web or back to a television or radio studio, at least not without paying thousands of dollars for service. There would now be a viable way to have large scale connectivity for major events, and direct support for live stream origination, without being constrained by wireless carriers’ network use policies.”
Developing a great product is a top priority for any network operator. To enhance its development efforts, 5NINES has partnered with a wireless research team, the UW WiNGS Lab. This development effort caught the attention of the National Science foundation, which just recently awarded a $15M grant to three bold, forward-looking network projects. As one of the major recipients, UW WiNGS lab received a portion of the grant. This ongoing work will help to transform the internet into a faster, more accessible, more usable global system.
Some of this testing work even took place high above the city – that is, from an airplane. The 5M network connections have been tested at 3,000 feet and higher altitudes, at a ground speed of 110kts – that’s about 126 miles per hour on a highway. To showcase the stability and quality of the 5M network, Kapela has enjoyed several Apple Facetime calls while in the plane, while running Speedtest.net and other network-stressing applications.
For more information about the 5NINES 5M network, please contact 5NINES at 608-512-1005.
About 5NINES llc
5NINES, Madison's premier Cloud service provider, offers enterprise-level IT infrastructure consulting, hosting and management services. With its broad base of technical expertise, 5NINES manages technology so customers can focus their energies on running their business. 5NINES provides solutions across the four Cloud service areas: user devices, applications, servers and networks. Its tier 3/4 data center is located in the heart of downtown Madison, with direct access to 12 network providers as well as redundancy services to its secondary data center in downtown Milwaukee. For more information, visit 5nines.com.
About The WiNGS Lab
The Wisconsin Wireless and NetworkinG Systems (WiNGS) Laboratory was established at UW-Madison in summer 2005. Research in the WiNGS lab is conducted in the areas of networking and distributed systems, with a primary focus on wireless and mobile networking. Research activities in the lab span a diverse set of activities, ranging from algorithmic design and analysis, and systems building through functional prototypes. Our projects get deployed in real and practical scenarios, sometimes in collaboration with partners who allow us to understand various real constraints, leading in turn to more refined solutions. The activities of this lab are generously supported at different times through funding from government agencies (such as the National Science Foundation) and industrial partners. Dr. Suman Banerjee leads the WiNGS Lab.
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