To celebrate the start of the new school year, Mimosa will be donating more than 100 fully-stocked backpacks for children at Christopher Elementary School, located in East San Jose. Because many of these students do not have the necessary supplies to do their homework, we decided to focus our charity outreach in our own backyard – not only is the campus within 10 miles of Mimosa HQ, but one of our employee’s spouses is also a teacher. Each backpack is loaded with school essentials and a hand-written, personalized letter to the student.

The ripple effects of the Net Neutrality and Open Internet proceedings are being felt by consumers, the tech industry, as well as Internet Service Providers (ISPs) at the heart of the discussion. As a co-founder of a Silicon Valley tech company, Mimosa Networks, I’m a big supporter of the need for an Open Internet to enable new innovations that depend on unimpeded consumer internet.

As a founding member of the Broadband Access Coalition, Mimosa is proud to be a leader in the effort to extend quality broadband service to underserved areas of the United States, and to bring desperately needed competition to urban and suburban markets. We filed a petition with the FCC on June 21^st, proposing that the 3.7 – 4.2GHz band be made available for point-to-multipoint services with low-cost licensing terms afforded under Part 101 rules.

In the second part of our “how-to” series, we wanted to share some tips on how we recently built an off-the-grid solar site in the hills overlooking Monterey Bay.

Our customer was looking to connect their remote farm and a nearby campsite to a site in Carmel Valley. We started by focusing on the actual dish deployment, using our Design Tool to configure the network. We then moved onto designing and deploying the solar power grid.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Mimosa Networks, the leader in next-generation, Hybrid Fiber-Wireless fixed access broadband solutions, announced today that aeromax, a leading wireless internet service provider (WISP) in Spain, has selected Mimosa for its new 5G Fixed wireless service in the southeastern coastal region. aeromax will deploy Mimosa access, backhaul, and client solutions to deliver speeds of 100 Mbps and greater for its residential and business customers.

In the first part of our “how-to” series, we wanted to share some tips on how we recently built an over the water, solar relay diversity link from Monterey Bay to Carmel Valley in California. A diversity link is a link that can pick up signals on two different dishes, with feed horns configured exactly 11 feet apart vertically, and is ideally suited to handle thermal inversion deployments. We spent about two months designing the site and trying out several different configurations at the remote site, to determine how to accommodate the long, 56 mile, link.

Apart from meeting customers and partners, one of the more fun aspects of my job is mingling with the industry’s newest and brightest entrepreneurs. Last week I traveled to the Red Herring Top 100 North America conference in Los Angeles to present on behalf of Mimosa, named as one of the finalists for the prestigious “Red Herring Top 100 North America 2017” Award.

At Mimosa, we are dedicated to our partners’ continued success. That is why I am excited to announce that today we are launching our Premier Partner Program, designed to create value and provide a one-stop destination for our partners. We are very proud of this feature-rich program which was developed after extensive consultation with our partners. The goal of the program is to generate new revenue streams and provide support in the form of marketing and sales tools.

With the availability of firmware version 2.3.0, we welcome support for the new, long-range Mimosa C5c connectorized client for Point-to-Point and Point-to-Multipoint applications.