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Point-to-Point Wireless

Licensed-exempt bridges carrying voice, video and data where no fixed infrastructure exists — with the encryption placed above the link rather than inside it.

Also known as PtP, 802.11a Bridging, Backhaul

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Point-to-point bridging across backhaul, deployable and municipal applications.

The SOCOM transportable kit is the clearest case: an 802.11a bridge pair spanning two sites with an IPsec tunnel between Cisco PIX firewalls running over the top of it, because in 2003 the radio’s own protection was not something to stake a deployment on and the encryption belonged above the link rather than inside it.

Also the backhaul for the Cisco-partnered mesh pilot, from an existing city tower to the anchor community building over licensed-exempt bridges.

Applied in

  • JTA and Downtown Transit Connectivity2006–2023Seventeen years on the boundary between two public agencies that could not direct one another — first as the city's architecture review on transit proposals, then as owner of the interconnect itself.
  • Library Wireless Program2006–2023From reported dead spots to an engineered coverage program, on an estate where the wireless carried staff safety devices.
  • Public Access Wireless Program2005–2019Fourteen years and four program names — JaxWiz, municipal Wi-Fi, public wireless, Downtown Wi-Fi — from inheriting somebody else's pilot to a signed, mapped downtown build still being extended four years later.
  • Super Bowl XXXIX Stadium Wireless2004–2005Ticketing and access control across seven stadium gates for the 2005 Super Bowl, backhauled over six point-to-point bridge pairs, in the most hostile radio environment there is.
  • Fort Stewart Mobile Disaster Recovery Fleet2003–2004A fleet of vehicles able to deploy across Georgia during disasters and operate where fixed infrastructure was gone.
  • JEA Utility SCADA and Redundant Control Sites2000–2004SCADA across 24 treatment plant sites on a SONET and ATM core — water and wastewater engineered as separate systems, with the control network separated from the corporate one two decades before the industry had a name for it.
  • SOCOM Transportable Wireless Kit2003–2004A two-site voice, video and data package over a point-to-point link where no fixed infrastructure existed.

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