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Frequently
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What
Does Seattle Line Communications Do?
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What
is the Wireless Connection Speed?
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What
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What
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What
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How
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How
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What
Does Seattle Line Communications Do?
Seattle
Line Communications
provides high-speed wireless dedicated Internet access and TCP/IP
communication services to large, medium, small businesses, home offices
or serious residential computer users.
Seattle Line Communications is the first true alternative to the
copper-based telephone company monopoly.
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What
is the Wireless Connection Speed?
Our system provides a minimum of 3.5 Megabits per second bandwidth,
fully symmetrical,of dedicated Internet access. The system connects
via 10baseT (RJ-45) directly into an Ethernet LAN or PC. The protocol
is TCP/IP.
We can offer almost any connection speed from our base rate up to 100
Megabits per second. Some of our bigger customers have contracted for
speeds from 10 to 20 Megabits per second.
Our customer access equipment consists of a small antenna and a fully
two-way capable packet radio transceiver. Customers are required to
provide some means of isolating their LAN traffic from our over-the-air
traffic by utilizing a managed Ethernet router. Seattle Line Communications
requires that this demarcation router or gateway be SNMP enabled and
MIB-2 compatible. Seattle Line Communications can help you select the
right product for this application or can provide the customer a DSL
router at a minimal cost.
No other special interface equipment is required.
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What
is Seattle Line Communications' service area?
Seattle Line Communications serves a very large area in Seattle and
is expanding to the rural areas in and around the Puget Sound region.
Distances between our major hubs and a customer may be up to 20 miles.
If the customer is within 1 to 5 miles of a hub site, service can
often be established through building windows, walls and through trees.
If you live outside this range or do not have line of site to our hubs,
often we can arrange for a special relay link that will bring service
to your neighborhood at a slightly higher installation rate.
Outside of this close-in region, line-of-sight is generally required
between the hub and the customer antenna. In most cases, rooftop mounting
of the antenna and radio is generally recommended for best performance.
Many options exist for mounting the equipment; roof tops, vertical walls,
peaked roofs, chimneys and even in the tops of tall fir trees.
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What
is the technology?
The Seattle Line Communications system utilizes an advanced type of radio
technology known as Spread Spectrum and has adopted the type known as
direct sequence. Spread Spectrum was developed by the military to be extremely
reliable and immune to RF interference or jamming by other signals.
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What
is the network reliability?
Our system
uses very low frequency, point-to-multipoint microwaves and is totally
immune to the effects of weather.
Typical
circuit availability for our service is 99.95%, which is comparable
to any wireline or optical fiber system.
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What
is the network security?
A router
is required at the customer interface providing ultimate security for
the customer's LAN traffic. Only packets bound to and from the Internet
ever get sent over-the-air thus safe-guarding the customer's local LAN
traffic.
As an added
bonus of Spread Spectrum technology, over-the-air communications are
extremely safe and secure from eavesdropping. The signal is authenticated,
frequency scrambled and data encrypted so that even if someone were
to use the very same radio equipment, they would still not be able to
gain access to the network or any customer's data. If a customer is
concerned about sending sensitive data over the public Internet, a variety
of encryption software is available as well as virtual private networking
or VPN services.
Any
unauthorized attempt to break into the system will signal an alarm and
an automatic refusal of service.
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How
is the system managed?
The system
is fully managed and monitored on a 7x24 basis. Seattle Line Communications'
management system is a state-of-the-art SNMP system, fully alarmed and
maintained by highly trained professional communications personnel on-call
24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Traffic
activity is automatically monitored and reported in 5-minute intervals.
This information is graphically available to each customer on a private
Web site. Each customer can know exactly how much bandwidth he is
using at any time.
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How
is a typical installation done?
The system
is extremely simple to install and requires no waiting period for permits,
provisioning, FCC licensing or frequency clearances. Typically a customer
can be up and running in just a few hours.
The antenna
and radio and router are very small and unobtrusive. Typically, the
antenna is no more than a foot square and the radio box is even smaller.
The physical installation is very similar to installing a DBS digital
satellite television antenna.
The cable
connecting to the customer's LAN or PC is nothing more than a CAT 5
Ethernet cable with an RJ-45 connector. A small indoor plug-in transformer
supplies power to the radio equipment through the same cable. The router
is usually located indoors with the power supply.
Total
power consumption is generally less than 40 watts.
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Copyright
© 2011 Seattle Line Communications, Inc.
Seattle Line Communications, Inc.
8220 SE 26th St.Suite 200, Mercer Island, WA 98040
Voice (206) 236-2626 Fax (206) 666-5050 Sales (206) 236-2626
E-Mail: WebInfo@SeattleLine.com
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