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Mohave Broadband
Mohave Broadband is an ISP providing services in the Mohave Valley, AZ area. Mohave Valley is comprised of Ft. Mohave, Mohave Valley, and Needles which is home to approximately 30,000 residents. Although there are DSL and Cable internet services available, the coverage area is spotty.
Responding to the requests of the community, Mohave Broadband committed to provide a wireless Internet service that would extend throughout the community. This service appeared to be straightforward as the area is a flat, desert topology with several towers available for line-of-sight coverage to the residential areas. However, the physical and network requirements were not the most difficult aspect of the project. When the project engineers addressed the requirements for the backoffice systems required to support the service, they determined that the in-house manpower was not adequate to deploy and maintain such systems. They then turned to AuthDirect.
They quickly discovered how the AuthDirect service would integrate with the hardware they had already purchased and the network they had designed. In addition, they were happy to find out that the AuthDirect system allowed them to design their own custom branding on all the service web pages, so they could control the end-user experience.
Once they installed the equipment in the towers and configured it to operate with AuthDirect’s Tollbooth system, they spent about one hour building their branding, service plans, and initial user accounts. They then tested the service and confirmed that is was running as configured.
Owner of Mohave Broadband, Tim Umphress stated “With the TollBooth service, we were able to setup our service quickly and we even tracked usage that same day! I’m very impressed with their service.”
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