NextPhase Launched Hybrid Wired/Wireless Connectivity Solutions, Providing Network Diversity, Redundancy, Load Balancing and Failover Capabilities to Business Customers

NextPhase Wirelessa nationwide developer of WiMAX-ready networks and a provider of advanced broadband solutions, today launched a suite of business continuity services, geared at minimizing downtime and providing businesses, agencies and schools with 'peace of mind'.

"Disaster recovery plans often focus primarily on data backups, but with businesses being increasingly reliant on their broadband connections to access hosted applications, to carry their VoIP traffic, and to communicate and collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners, it is important to ensure uninterrupted network connectivity. Traditionally, companies achieve this by contracting for acquiring secondary circuits from a second provider. Unfortunately, if both circuits are wired, they are often entering the building through the same conduit, and if that conduit is compromised, everything fails," stated Tom Hemingway, Chairman and COO of NextPhase.

Continuing, Hemingway said, "NextPhase solves this problem with a hybrid solution that combines wireline and wireless connections, balancing the load by distributing the traffic over both connections, and managing fail-over to efficiently re-route traffic, should one of the circuits go down. Combining wireline and wireless technologies together like this, is the ideal way to provide redundant network communications for businesses, agencies and schools."

About NextPhase

With a mission to build a device-agnostic, WiMAX-ready, wireless broadband connectivity/content delivery platform serving all 48 contiguous U.S. states, NextPhase is focused on providing connectivity services and solutions to businesses, public school systems and local government agencies. Using licensed WiMAX and LMDS spectrum bands, the Company offers fully-integrated solutions with the highest levels of reliability, security, flexibility, scalability and price-performance. For more information, please visit www.npwireless.com.