Enteprises Need Larger Connections

"Bandwidth requirements of most enterprises will increase at least 35 percent per year, while those with heavy increases in video usage may see annual bandwidth growth of 60% to 100% or more.”
—Gartner, Dec 2008

Gartner: Bandwidth Demand increasing 35% per year

Business bandwidth use is projected to increase six-fold in the next three years. But most businesses cannot get more than T1s because four out of five commercial buildings in the U.S. do not have fiber-optic cabling.

Fast Facts

Founded: 2006
Locations: Las Vegas, NV and Reno, NV
Services: Telecommunications (Ethernet private lines and Internet Access)
Customers: medium businesses, enterprises, governments, telecom carriers
Unique: millimeter-wave wireless fiber instead of ground fiber
Niche: locations without fiber, physically diverse connections, quick installs, temporary service
About 1Velocity

1Velocity is a telecommunications carrier in Nevada pioneering the use of millimeter-wave wireless fiber for metro Ethernet and Internet.

Metro Ethernet Carrier in Las Vegas and Reno

1Velocity has built a proof-of-concept metro Ethernet carrier network in Las Vegas, NV with our own self-healing Gigabit backhaul ring.

Millimeter-wave Wireless Fiber RingBanks, public safety agencies, casinos, architects, airlines, and other enterprises use 1Velocity for Ethernet private line service and Internet access from 8 Mbps to 1 Gbps.

What makes the 1Velocity metro Ethernet network unique is the fact that it is built entirely on rooftops using wireless millimeter-wave and microwave radio technology. 1Velocity began also serving customers in Reno, NV in 2009.

What has surprised us is it that 1Velocity's wireless fiber has been more reliable than our ground fiber carrier. 1Velocity has performed very well, and I would highly recommend them.
—Ken Sarnecky, VP Systems Development and IT
Las Vegas Dissemination Company

Millimeter-wave Wireless Fiber

Millimeter-wave Wireless FiberIn 2005, the FCC began licensing point-to-point links in the millimeter-wave band (71-95 GHz). Previously used in missile-guidance systems, millimeter-wave radios transmits more than a gigabit of Ethernet over distances of a few miles on a "highly direction, 'pencil-beam' signal," giving it the nickname wireless fiber. The millimeter-wave wireless fiber technology was initially used in LAN environments, but the FCC also proposed using millimeter-wave links in telecommunications networks.

1Velocity pioneered the use of millimeter-wave for telecommunications by building its own metro Ethernet backhaul ring entirely with millimeter-wave wireless fiber. The 1Velocity network is completely physically separate from any other carrier and provides carrier-class reliability. Today, 1Velocity has the second largest deployment of licensed millimeter-wave links among U.S. telecommunications carriers (the largest licensee among telecommunications carriers is Clearwire, which has begun using millimeter-wave wireless fiber to connect its WiMax hotspots to the Internet).

The value for the circuits we get is better than any option available in Las Vegas. We like the fact that 1Velocity doesn't oversubscribe their backhaul circuits and their speeds are incredible.
—Russ Ketchum, VP of IT
Allegiant Air