Prairie Hills Wireless and Mimosa Join Forces to Deliver Fiber-Fast Wireless Broadband

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – September 6 , 2017 – Mimosa Networks, the leader in 5G Fixed wireless solutions, and Prairie Hills Wireless, a Nebraska-based wireless internet service provider (WISP), announced today that the companies’ longstanding partnership has propelled Prairie Hills Wireless to a milestone of over 1,200 residential and business customers receiving fiber-fast broadband services.

Antenna Selections for the Mimosa A5c

At Mimosa, we get a lot of questions from service providers asking about which antenna we recommend to provide the best performance in a given situation. This blog is designed to help answer these questions—specifically for our A5c product.

The Mimosa A5c has four N-ports since it’s a 4x4 MIMO radio. Because of this, you can set up your towers in many different configurations, with many different antenna choices. There are many antenna manufacturers out there, but there are three that we’ve worked with quite closely, and who we recommend our customers use.

Mimosa Gives Back(packs)

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.

 

Lack of Competition Has Driven the Net Neutrality Debate to a Fever Pitch

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.

Fixed Access Economics: Understanding Why Mobile Networks Cannot Bridge the Broadband Divide and What You Can Do About It

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 21st, 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.

Building a Solar Site

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.

aeromax Selects Mimosa Networks for Wide-Scale Ultra Broadband Deployment in Spain

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.

 

Deploying a Diversity Link

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.