Wednesday, January 17, 2007

How it all started (236 km wireless link)

2006 Lebanon War, known in Lebanon as the July War and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War.

During the war many telecom towers were hit, internet services in the north of Lebanon were disrupted.

We started contacting wireless ISP's in cyprus to check if any one was interested in attempting the longest commercial wireless shoot ever . Probably the longest wireless link over sea water.

To our surprise, Turkish Cypriots were very interested Kemal, co owner of Extendbroadband expressed his interest. Work was started some wireless calculations were done and proved that indeed the link was possible.