The Problems We Solve

The global demand for wireless data and voice services has created an emerging problem: in-building wireless signal penetration. Frustrated users in homes, apartments, and office buildings often are limited to which rooms they can use their wireless PCs and appliances. To be truly useful, wireless must be able to reach everywhere in a building, reliably and at the maximum speed and best performance possible.

The inability to deliver dependable and consistent in-building wireless coverage is annoying for the consumer as well as service providers, who must field calls and roll trucks to identify and resolve these connectivity problems. The explosive growth in wireless adoption is driving the need to overcome the challenge of delivering seamless coverage within buildings.

Obstacles to In-Building Wireless
Radio signals are affected in many ways, presenting a challenge to delivering seamless wireless coverage. For example, Wi-Fi signal propagation is influenced by distance and type of material encountered in its path. The strength of the signal can be attenuated as it passes through barriers (windows: 25%, wood veneer: 40%, block walls: 65%, metal doors: 75%, silvered mirrors 100%) due to absorption and reflection. An array of noise sources can also add interference. These factors can result in reduced signal strength, phase delay, and many times, dead spots.

WirePlus – Wireless Everywhere
SercoNet has developed a portfolio of technologies known as WirePlus that overcome the barriers to in-building wireless reception with a patented hybrid technique that is low-cost, highly efficient, and future-proof. Hybrid networks combine the convenience of wireless access to each room, while seamlessly extending coverage with wired distribution between rooms.

SercoNet’s unique solution converts over the air radio frequencies used by metro wireless services, into a data stream that is suitable for transmission along any wired medium in the building including phone lines, coax, Ethernet, or electrical lines. This design provides wireless access in locations that are physically removed from where the wireless signal source emanates.