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Edgewater Wireless Partners with Nigeria’s 3CNET
(via Thenewswire.ca) Edgewater Wireless Leading the Way for WiFi in West Africa with 3CNET...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Edgewater Wireless Partners with Nigeria’s 3CNET(via Thenewswire.ca)\n \n \nEdgewater Wireless Leading the Way for WiFi in West Africa with 3CNET Partnership\n\n \n \nOTTAWA, CANADA - July 3, 2013 - Edgewater Wireless Systems Inc., (YFI;TSX.V) the global leader in WiFi3 next generation WiFi technology, today announces the company has partnered with Nigeria-based 3CNET, a leading technology integration and ICT services company. 3CNET is currently building an extensive Metro fibre and wireless network in Lagos, and other major cities in Nigeria. With this purchase of equipment from Edgewater Wireless, 3CNET will now be able to offer a comprehensive suite of services and applications to the company's major customers, business and home users, over WiFi3 technology.\n\n \n \n\"Nigeria is one of the hottest and fastest growing markets in Africa for WiFi right now and demand for connectivity to the internet and improved services via WiFi is a major catalyst for growth,\" said Oliver Blackwell, Director of Customer Solutions at Edgewater Wireless. \"The executive team at 3CNET recognized the demand for WiFi would be huge with over 32 million Nigerians currently accessing the internet only through the telecom GSM network. Fixed and WiFi Networks are really only starting to emerge in the country which is spurring 3CNET's rapid growth and expansion.\"\n\n \n \nEdgewater Wireless WiFi3 series of Next Generation WiFi Access Points enables 3-channels on a single radio and will enable 3CNET to provide excellent Quality of Service (QoS) to their customers by delivering up to 50 times greater performance versus traditional WiFi. WiFi3 achieves unparalleled performance by mitigating issues such as Adjacent Channel Interference (ACI) and offering industry leading capabilities such as the integrated Spectral Surveillance Architecture (SSA(TM)) - Edgewater's integrated, real time spectral monitoring feature which will dramatically reduce 3CNET operational expenses (OPEX).\n\n \n \n\"Edgewater's WiFi3 Access Points will enable us to deploy a more cost effective network with higher quality service and better connectivity to the internet than our competitors,\" said Jide Ipaye, CEO for 3CNET. \"We wanted to provide better next generation WiFi technology and services for our customers that included the ability to layer services like VoW...