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What makes microwave better then wire connectivity? Let's face it; no matter if you are using a dial-up modem, ISDN, DSL, or a T1 connection, you are still using wire. And wire has limitations. It can only carry a specific amount of data, either up or down. Speeds quoted are normally for download time, while upload times are far slower.

And Seneca avoids these wire type problems with microwave transmission? Most definitely, high-speed microwave transmissions from Seneca are far superior to those sent by wire. The throughput is consistent up and down! Providing better transmissions and faster speeds. No matter what bandwidth you need, you're going to get it all.

What about security, how do I know my data is not being pulled from the air? The truth of the matter is that it is easier to intercept data over wire then it is with Seneca's high-speed microwave data transmission system. Since we are a line of site process our antenna are aligned so the flow of data is directly from point A to point B, with no stops at your neighbor's offices like wire often does. To steal data from our airwaves you would have to have another antenna directly between our cell and your rooftop antenna plus it would have to be transmitting on the exact frequency that we are at that exact microsecond. Since we use a process called "frequency hopping" it is virtually impossible for the interloper to guess which of the hundreds of frequencies we are on within the bandwidth.

My company currently has a WAN to interconnect our offices throughout the State; is there a better way? Yes there is, its call a Virtual Private Network, commonly known as a VPN. A VPN lets a business use the Internet as its network, eliminating the cost of setting up a wide-area network, with all of its dial-up fees and expensive infrastructure. With a VPN, the remote user simply accesses a local Internet provider (ISP) and uses the Web to transfer information. The cost is far less then the 8¢ a minute national average, and more internationally, then that charged by the ISP's monthly flat rate. Security, once an issue, has been solved. The secret core of VPN is encryption. VPN's, through both hardware and software, encrypt data in a way that makes it impossible to crack the code. VPN's don't just let a user send information cheaply, securely and reliably; they let the user access the main server as if he or she were sitting in the office.

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