Riptide Wireless is delivered over our proprietary state-of-the-art Mesh network. Our Mesh technology allows us to deliver services via a robust totally redundant network.

The Riptide Wireless Mesh Network is the next major step in our ongoing commitment to provide our customers with the worlds most innovative broadband communications solutions, to maintain their competitive advantage in the marketplace. Our Mesh Network is the next-generation broadband system, whose unique capabilities will enable groundbreaking applications, open up new markets, and unlock a wealth of value-added Riptide services.

Our Mesh Network employs high-performance, on-board digital processing, packet switching and spot-beam technology to offer single-hop connectivity, regardless of location.

Its novel architecture will allow customers to communicate directly via broadband, without connecting through a central retransmission service or hub. Bandwidth-on-demand means customers will only pay for the bandwidth their applications require, whether it's for low data rate transactions, or multi-megabit, video-intensive, media-rich content delivery.

With a state of the Art Mesh Network, large businesses, telecommuters, small office/home office (SOHO) users and eventually consumers will have access to two-way, broadband applications, including telemedicine, desktop video conferencing and interactive distance learning operating at faster speeds and delivered more cost-effectively than by conventional terrestrial systems, such as frame relay and T1 connections. It will seamlessly integrate with existing land-based local and wide-area networks and be fully compatible with a wide range of communications industry standards.

Broadband via Wireless- the Best of Both Worlds Imagine continent-wide coverage combined with network capabilities...Now imagine download speeds as high as 20 Mbps and upload rates as fast as 20 Mbps - on demand and as required. With Riptides Wireless Mesh Network, it is now possible!

Riptides Network - The Best of Broadband Riptide Network will bring our customers an array of strategic benefits:

High speeds, low cost, small antennas The high-powered Network broadband will enable very high speeds in both directions while using compact, cost-efficient terminals. Riptide Network will provide a variety of service options to meet every need - with upload speeds as high as 20Mbps and downloads as fast as 20Mbps.

"Router in the air" - for any-to-any connectivity Our Mesh Network is the first broadband system to route traffic dynamically on the broadband, allowing for full connectivity: any site can communicate with any other site, or with many other sites. With Riptides Mesh Network, there is no need to retransmit through a central hub facility, yielding lower latency and faster response times.

Pay only for what you use - flexible bandwidth on demand Today, terrestrial bandwidth is purchased in "chunks" - forcing customers to pay for enough capacity to accommodate their highest bandwidth applications, all the time, even though it may only be used intermittently.

• Cost less than half of any other service
• A full duplex network
• Operating in a licensed (and unlicensed spectrum for redundancy)
• 99.99% uptime
• Higher carrier class
• No interference
• 1 bill 1 package
• local 1 day installation

Riptides Mesh Network provides the enormous advantage of only paying for bandwidth only when it's needed - enabling the occasional use of high-bandwidth applications, such as videoconferencing or large file transfers, without the need to commit to excessive over-capacity and long-term contracts. This not only reduces costs; it allows companies to allocate resources more efficiently.

A "universal connection" for consistent high quality of service Any business that's ever depended on a terrestrial network knows the frustrations of last- mile connectivity. No national provider reaches the last mile everywhere; therefore, companies are forced to install multiple terrestrial access solutions to meet there networking needs. This patchwork approach makes it difficult at best to guarantee consistent high quality of service and complicates network management, support, and deployment, while increasing costs. In North America alone there are over 4 million businesses and 40 million households that are unable to receive broadband access over terrestrial networks; many never will.

The Riptide Mesh Network puts an end to these obstacles by creating a continent-wide "universal connection", yielding a single, comprehensive network solution - whether your requirements span a room, a building, a campus, a city, a country, or a continent. And all supplied and backed by Riptide Wireless. No more patchwork systems. No guesswork about whom to call for service and support. No wasted time chasing multiple vendors. The result is high quality network service, guaranteed, all the time.

Bandwidth efficiency and capacity The Riptide Wireless Mesh Network has the capacity of up to forty times that of existing broadband. Plus, because of Riptide Wireless-developed frequency reuse and spot-beam capabilities, service will be offered with a range of flexible transmission rates and options tailored to customers' requirements for the right amount of bandwidth, when it's needed, and at competitive prices.

The Riptide Wireless Mesh network is a new approach to building networks. Since radio systems were first deployed, they have always been based on a base station that connects to subscribers. Alternative architectures have seen point-to-point links developed. There are considerable disadvantages of both these approaches. The Riptide Wireless overcomes delivers the inherent advantages of radio, with none of the drawbacks of existing access technologies.

The Riptide Mesh Network:

• Uses integrated switches at every node to allow circuits to be established between any node and the trunk network via paths through other nodes.
• Can route around obstacles by selecting paths to other nodes as appropriate.
• Riptides network is fully scalable up to 20 Mbps.

For the user, the Riptide Mesh Network delivers broadband access to:

• Trunk Telephony (T1)
• IP services (Ethernet and USB presentations)
• Fast service access (Peak subscriber data rate of 20Mbit/s)