John Faulknier: My name is John Faulknier, I am with WAAV, right I came in to
Massachusetts. WAAV, waav.com and we make the AirBox CM3 and AirBox X2
cellular routers.
Benjamin Higginbotham: What the heck is that?
John Faulknier: It is a EV-DO, EV-DO Rev.A, Rev 0 or HSDPA cellular router
that connects to a cellular network. Serves up a Wi-Fi hotspot or Ethernet.
You can also plug in GPS for fleet tracking/fleet management.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Okay, so we’ve seen this before in couple of other
boxes, we take your Rev A, AirCard or whatever you got. Slide in the back of
the box and you got a basically convert it, takes your Wan, coverts it to a
Wi-Fi Lan , how is this different?
John Faulknier: Exactly, that’s an AirCard, ours is an AirBox. So, you don’t
insert a card into it, its all embedded in side of there.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Okay, tell me little bit about the X2, because that’s
what really got me all giddy?
John Faulknier: The X2 has two cellular connections, it can be 2 Cingular, 2
Sprint an EV-DO, HSDPA it does have to be on Cingular/Sprint which we ship all
around the world and it takes those two connections and bonds into one. So,
you see one internet connection and they uses the two. It’s good for buses,
where one EV-DO connection, 50 people on one EV-DO connection doesn’t work.
That gonna be hectic.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Like 5 people on one EV-DO connection doesn’t work.
John Faulknier: Yeah, so if you wanna to do that, you could take the X2 which
has 2 cellular connections and if you need more than 2, you can stack them.
You can stack couple on together, but 5 together for 10X the bandwidth.
Benjamin Higginbotham: If I am only one user on that box, am I going to see,
let’s say , let’s make some assumptions for easy math ?
John Faulknier: Sure.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Let’s assume that I am getting 1 megabit down, 1
megabit up on an EV-DO Rev A, if I have got 2 EV-DO Rev A connections going
on, do I get 2 down, 2 up for one user or is it really just 2 users can then
use in one user connection, can each use each card?
John Faulknier: Going up you can then push from one device, you can push the
upload speed higher in that, that will go up. Whenever you go out, you go out
to Yahoo.com you request it comes down over 1 IP address. This has 2 IP
addresses, its all gonna come down on 1 IP address, they don’t know to send to
both, so it’s not truly gonna be that for 1 connection. Your 1 video is only
gonna come over one of those links. Now, if I open 2 videos, I open 1 video on
this link and then the second pack it goes out of with the other link that’s
how it happens. So, whenever you have 7 or 8 people behind there, it gets
balanced between the 2 or the 3 or the 4.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, it depends on how my persistence is setup between
me and the server?
John Faulknier: Yes.
Benjamin Higginbotham: It depends on where that persistence originated on
which card it wanted to come back on?
John Faulknier: That’s correct. Over which cellular connection.
Benjamin Higginbotham: Okay. So, really the better application for this is
like what you said on a bus, where you’ve got multiple people. On our
instance, we’ve got 5 or 10 people here at CES and we are all sharing, we are
close to each other in a room with no bandwidth in the room whatsoever, this
would allow to share EV-DO connection little bit better, because we would have
multiple streams?
John Faulknier: Yeah, exactly and you can also do different providers,
different protocols for more coverage, so it’s a mobile environment you are
moving. You will also put a 4.9 gigahertz for a public safety, if your public
safety network for, let’s say a squad car. It goes outside of that area, it
still needs connectivity, it goes over the cellular network as suppose to, the
4.9 whenever it goes outside of that. When it’s in both, they can use both
networks.
Benjamin Higginbotham: How do I stack them? What’s my stacking innerface?
John Faulknier: The stacking is right here, just take the 2 and just put an
Ethernet cross over between the 2.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, CAT-5, CAT-6 type stuff?
John Faulknier: Yeah. Just if it is a CAT-5 and in between the 2 and go in and
you can set it up through the web admin…
Benjamin Higginbotham: Anything else that it does as really nifty and
innovative?
John Faulknier: GPS add on, which lets you track the vehicles in real-time.
So, little faster, it gives you more than a every 5 minute update. Goes over
the broadband internet connection, so it happens within seconds and lets you
know where it is.
Benjamin Higginbotham: So, I can watch my fleet or say wife, wherever they are
going?
John Faulknier: Exactly.
Benjamin Higginbotham: All right awesome. Is it real? Is it shipping?
John Faulknier: The X2 comes out on the 15th of February.
Benjamin Higginbotham: And how much will that retail for?
John Faulknier: $10.99
Benjamin Higginbotham: Okay and what about the CM3?
John Faulknier: The CM3 is been out, we have been out since 2004 with our base
product.
Benjamin Higginbotham: The difference is that it only has one card.
John Faulknier: It has one EV-DO or one HSDPA connection.
