GAW. Great Auk Wireless, Broadband Wireless Internet Provider for Vermont, and New Hampshire.

Brattleboro, VT – Known more for it’s pastoral settings, fall foliage and the world’s best cheddar cheese, Vermont is not typically recognized as a hot bed of technological innovation. However, in the heart of the artsy town of Brattleboro, Great Auk Wireless, Vermont’s largest wireless Internet service provider (WISP), is helping to drive high-speed wireless innovation through the integration of meshed WiFi and fixed wireless or point-to-multipoint solutions.

As a single source provider for high-speed wireless Internet, Great Auk Wireless delivers both meshed WiFi solutions, the next generation of “hotspot” technology, for more densely populated areas such as larger towns, areas with high levels of tourism and as a lower cost alternative to cable or DSL as well as fixed or point-to-multipoint wireless solutions for rural area deployment, typically for “last mile” customers.

With its meshed WiFi network product, Great Auk Wireless has experienced success in bringing a network designed primarily for outdoor use, indoors. This is a challenge where larger, and higher profile municipal deployments have, for all intents and purposes, fallen short.

According to H. Josh Garza, CEO of Great Auk Wireless, “what we’ve been able to accomplish by bringing an outdoor meshed network technology indoors is huge. With this innovation, Great Auk Wireless is able to integrate the technologies of both a point-to-multipoint network with the those of a meshed network, allowing us to reach those really hard-to-get-to last mile customers.”

With its fixed or point-to-multipoint network solution, Great Auk Wireless is able to provide the bandwidth backhaul necessary to service those hard-to-reach nooks and crannies typical of this rough New England topography with its meshed WiFi network solution.

Using this technological integration and innovation, Great Auk Wireless has charged forward expanding services throughout Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom area surrounding Craftsbury and the New Hampshire North Country town of Colebrook through its acquisition of Island Pond Wireless this past January. This is in addition to new network deployments in the southern Vermont towns of Putney and Marlboro, adding to its network footprint throughout the New England area in Lake Dunmore, the 20-mile radius surrounding Stratton and Equinox Mountains and in Roxbury, New Hampshire.

Depending upon the location and network type, Great Auk Wireless provides speeds up to 4Mbps and monthly fees as low as $5.00 per month. For areas frequented by tourists, such as Lake Willoughby, Island Pond, Stratton and Lake Dunmore, the company offers seasonal plans for users “on-the-go” providing hourly, daily, weekly and season-long plan options.

Great Auk Wireless will be an exhibitor at this year’s Vermont Business & Industry Expo at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center in South Burlington, Vermont. The company can be found at booth number 115, on the second floor of the Hotel’s Conference Center.

About Great Auk Wireless
Great Auk Wireless was formed in 2005 by Josh Garza and partners and shares the same management team as sibling, Optima Computers, LLC. Great Auk Wireless (www.gaw.com) currently operates a successful wireless Internet services providing service to more than 1,600 users In Brattleboro, Lake Dunmore, the 20-mile radius surrounding Stratton and Equinox Mountains, Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom and in the New Hampshire areas surrounding the towns of Roxbury and Colebrook. Great Auk Wireless currently offers subscribers broadband wireless Internet access on a network that defies rough terrain and topography in areas not served by standard cable or telephony based broadband services or as a lower cost alternative to traditionally wired services. The minimal environmental impact, lower cost and speed of deployment versus cable or DSL make Great Auk Wireless a natural for communities in desperate need of low-cost, high-quality broadband wireless service that respects our natural environment. For more information about Great Auk Wireless or to find out how to get municipal deployment of the Great Auk Wireless service, visit www.gaw.com, call 1.877.220.2873 or email info@gaw.com.