Wavion and ZapFi Partner to Provide Wi-Fi Internet Service at Bruges Soccer Stadium “Jan Breydel”

YOQNE’AM, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wavion™, a global leader in Wi-Fi solutions for mobile operators, governments and enterprises, and ZapFi, a Wi-Fi Service Provider in Belgium, announced today the deployment of Wavion’s Wi-Fi base stations for high speed internet service at Bruges’s soccer stadium, “Jan Breydel”.

The large 30,000 seat stadium is fully covered by Wavion’s Beamforming-based Wi-Fi base-stations, providing ubiquitous Wi-Fi coverage for applications such as video, images transfer, social networking and internet browsing. The service enables people with smartphones and tablets to connect to the internet at 500Kbps to 1Mbps.

This deployment is an extension of ZapFi’s existing Wi-Fi network in Bruges, covering the whole city with Wavion’s base stations and providing tourist and municipal services.

“We have selected Wavion for the stadium deployment due to the unmatched coverage, capacity and quality of service their base stations provide in the city of Bruges,” said Gery Pollet, ZapFi’s Founder and CEO. ”We are very pleased with Wavion since it enabled us to easily cover the full stadium and provide the needed capacity in this challenging stadium environment.”

Wavion’s unique and powerful base stations, with their spatially adaptive Beamforming and powerful interference immunity suite, provide extended coverage and higher throughput in outdoor environments, excelling in severe NLOS and heavy interference.

“Wavion is proud to provide ZapFi, a leading Wi-Fi service provider in Belgium, with our market leading outdoor Wi-Fi base stations, delivering our superior coverage, capacity and reliability,” said Dr. Mati Wax, Wavion's Founder and CTO. “It is yet another proof of the added value of our unique and powerful Beamforming technology to Service Providers and to large venue deployments, where a large number of handheld devices connect simultaneously.”

About Wavion

Wavion is a technology leader in outdoor Wi-Fi applications for metro and rural areas with deployments in more than 70 countries. The company’s two-way digital Beamforming and powerful Interference Immunity Suite are the first and only technology to resolve the significant performance, penetration and profitability challenges facing large-scale metro and rural deployments. Featuring Wavion Base Stations with 802.11n (WBSn) in 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed bands and in 700MHz licensed band, Wavion offers end-to-end solutions including access, backhaul, CPEs, management and service provisioning tools. Wavion is privately held and backed by Tel Aviv-based investors Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. and BRM Capital. Wavion’s headquarters are located in Yoqne’am Israel, with worldwide offices in US, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, India, China, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Africa and Russia.
Additional information about Wavion is available at www.wavionnetworks.com.

About ZapFi

ZapFi NV, with its corporate headquarters in Bruges, BELGIUM, is a next generation "wireless internet services provider" or "WISP" and offers a robust suite of advanced high-speed wireless Internet services to consumers and businesses. As part of a multi-year network build-out plan, the ZapFi service will be available in major cities across Belgium and bring together an unprecedented combination of speed and mobility at a very attractive price. ZapFi's open all-IP network, based upon the WIFI 802.11b/g/n standards, provides unmatched network capacity to deliver next generation wireless broadband access.
Additional information about ZapFi is available at www.zapfi.com.

CONTACT:

Wavion Ltd.
Hila Nagel, +972.4.909.7300
Fax: +972.4.909.7322
hila@wavionnetworks.com

KEYWORDS:   United States  Belgium  Europe  North America  New York  Middle East  Israel

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