RAD Wireless Solution Paves Way to the 2010 Winter Olympics

November 16, 2007

November 8, 2007: Peter Kiewit Sons (PKS), the general contractor heading up the $500 million upgrade to Vancouver’s Sea-to-Sky Highway (STSH) ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, has selected RAD Data Communications equipment to provide voice and data traffic along the entire route.

The contractor is using RAD's Vmux voice trunking pseudowire gateways and Airmux-200 broadband wireless multiplexers to transport a variety of voice and data traffic – including PBX voice trunks, two-way radios, Ethernet, high-speed Internet access, fax, and modem stations – for more than 800 employees working on the project. Already the major thoroughfare between the city of Vancouver and the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort, the STSH is poised to experience a major spike in traffic when the Winter Olympics descend upon British Columbia in 2010. Prior to this project, there was very little existing communications infrastructure along the STSH. PKS needed a rapidly deployable, cost-effective solution to meet the intensive communications requirements of more than 800 employees working in the field and in PKS’ five satellite offices, located along a 100-kilometer stretch of the highway. After careful consideration and consultation with regional systems integrator Sea-to-Sky Wireless, PKS selected the RAD Vmux and Airmux products. The RAD solution enables PKS to integrate its assortment of voice and data traffic, and transmit it among multiple sites over single broadband wireless links. “From a customer perspective, the voice quality and the overall network integration have performed extremely well,” said Troy Van Bostelen, a manager for PKS.