One Gigabit Or Bust
July 9 2003
Dewayne Hendricks is determined to get today’s wireless communication innovations out of the lab and into your house. Hendricks, CEO of the Dandin Group, has used the Motorola Canopy™ platform to bring broadband wireless internet to remote areas. (Full story.)
Motorola Canopy™ Technology Improves Security
July 10 2003
Assisted by Dandin Group, the East Bay Municipal Utility District has begun deploying Motorola’s Canopy™ wireless broadband technology to monitor data at its plants and other sites. The first phase between Stockton and Pardee Ridge, has set a distance record for the Canopy system. (Full story.)
Turtle Mountain Reservation provides wireless broadband
June 2003
How an Indian reservation in North Dakota was able to provide high-speed Internet connectivity to a Tribal College, Tribal institutions and satellite campuses through a National Science Foundation grant. (Scroll down to Past Articles #7)
Dandin Wins
CENIC Innovation Award
May 5 2003
Dewayne Hendricks, CEO of the Fremont, Calif.-based Dandin Group, and a team of Native Americans from tribal schools at each reservation deployed Motorola’s Canopy fixed wireless broadband solution as part of a project whose goals were to provide an advanced networking infrastructure in areas where this was not previously possible due to remoteness and high costs. (Read more about the award)
The Wi-Fi Revolution
May 2003
In a Wired special report, Chris Anderson discusses the brink of transformation and the people to watch, including CEO Dewayne Hendricks. Read the article.
Motorola’s Canopy™ Technology Offers 20 Mbps Point-to-Point Backhaul for Enterprise Solution
Mar 12 2003
Canopy System Access Point to Backhaul Link Spans 35 Miles in East Bay Municipal Utility District Deployment
Installation of 3 links (2.9, 12, and 35 miles) - East Bay MUD
Feb 20, 2003
Supported by the Dandin Group, this slide-show chronicles the deployment of the canopy system linking East Bay MUD facilities.
Congressional Internet Caucus Presentation - Washington DC
Feb 12, 2003Description
As part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded effort called 'Advanced
Networking with Minority-serving Institutions' (AN-MSI), Motorola's wireless
unlicensed Canopy solution has been deployed on three Indian reservations.
Dewayne Hendricks, CEO of the Fremont, Calif.-based Dandin Group, and
a team of Native Americans from tribal schools at each reservation deployed Motorola’s
Canopy fixed wireless broadband solution as part of a project whose goals
were to provide an advanced networking infrastructure in areas where this
was not previously possible due to remoteness and high costs.
Residents of Turtle Mountain and Fort Berthold reservations in North Dakota and Fort Peck reservation in Montana now have a full-service IP infrastructure which can be used not only for Internet access, but also video and IP telephony. At Fort Berthold, Motorola's Canopy solution set a distance record for wireless products of this class of 27 miles delivering 20 megabits of bandwidth. This project will serve as a model for advanced network services delivery to other reservations and also to underserved areas.
Public Interest
This wireless product is flexible, affordable and a perfect
solution for rural communities, communities in the digital divide, and
local government networks.
The Canopy units are flexible. The beta-tested canopy units in three tribal communities were used to create 20-megabit backbones in rural, remote and geographically challenging areas to bring broadband capacity to communities that lack a consistent telecommunications infrastructure or had been underserved. Moreover, the canopy wireless system can be configured in various flexible ways to build out local area networks—where none existed before—to reach unserved communities.
The Canopy units provide high capacity solutions. While current products can provide 35 mile line-of-sight backbones at 20 megabit broadband capacity. Plans are imminent to bring the next generation of broadband Canopy units to market at 50-megabit capacity.
Canopy Units can bridge the Digital Divide. Isolated communities not only will have access to the Internet, but also can use the infrastructure to bring all the contemporary applications and solutions available to urban areas directly to their communities, e.g. e-government management, distance learning, telemedicine, and e-commerce.
The Canopy solution is affordable. For a very reasonable price, paired links cost around $4,000, a fraction of the cost to install wireline legacy systems. With additional production and newer product lines and higher capacity units coming to market, the costs for a basic broadband capable system will be further reduced.
The Canopy unit will not have to use proprietary spectrum. The units have been tested and deployed in the unlicensed portions of the radio spectrum, thus not requiring costly private licensing approval and highly bureaucratic regulatory approvals to deploy the broadband network system.
The Canopy units are easy to install. Non-technical workers under appropriate supervision can install the units, depending on structures being attached to, in a matter of an hour--even by one person, with minimal technical expertise. Moreover, the units are small, measuring 12x3.5x3.5 inches, and can be mounted on a variety of structures or supports, so as to not call undue attention to their deployment in a community.
WCA Honors Broadband Wireless Solutions
Jan 9 2003
Dandin and Motorola win 'Wemmie' from WCA for rural wireless project.
