Mobitex
The SkyTel Mobitex network is the most reliable, secure and robust wireless data-only network available anywhere. With millions of users operating on 32 Mobitex networks in 23 countries, Mobitex technology continues to deliver robust, highly reliable global M2M solutions. Recent projects in China, South Korea and India underscore its ongoing credibility as an industrial grade network for narrowband data applications.
SkyTel's nationwide Mobitex footprint serves industries who rely on high-availability, mission-critical wireless data communications in sectors as diverse as transportation, energy and security. When you need fail-safe data transmission, we're the optimal choice. During the crisis of 9/11, our network was still up and running in spite of a 60% traffic spike.
Our extensive coverage includes licensed spectrum in all 50 states and Puerto Rico with compatibility with the Mobitex networks in Canada, Mexico and Venezuela.
Key features include:
- Coverage blanketing 93% of U.S. business population in 363 metro areas, with 1500+ cell sites with an up-time of 99.99%
- Easy provisioning and streamlined device certification
- Best-in-industry battery life thanks to power-saving deep sleep mode
- Guaranteed, instant, always-on network access
- Rapid deployment and added coverage in less than 24 hours
- Mobitex is an ideal network for customers whose requirements range from very small, niche applications to companies needing to monitor thousands of devices. This scalability allows us to serve a broad range of business needs
- True push functionality allows host to initiate transmissions to remote devices without being requested, ideal for emergency situations requiring command-and-control resolution
- Don't buy more pipe than you need. Unless you need broadband for large files, Mobitex's narrowband spectrum is perfectly suited to sending short bursts of data without having to compete with voice transmission
- Network redundancy protects your data transmission regardless of interruptions to switches, base stations or transmission lines - every site has battery backup and telco redundancy
- Mobitex is a proven technology. Scores of our customers have run applications on our network for over a decade
Recent Network Enhancements
Deploying high qualilty networks requires a consistent investment of resources, both human and capital, to ensure that critical data delivery is both rapid and failsafe. Over the past year, Velocita Wireless and now SkyTel have embarked on a multi-million dollar upgrade campaign. The following improvements in capacity, speed and security by the Mobitex engineering team strengthen the foundation of our entire network architecture:
- We have installed two new state-of-the-art backbone switching centers at highly secure locations to provide optimum traffic routing. These backbone switching centers replace the legacy Mobitex backbone tier with software-based IP switch architecture
- These IP switches help all customers connect any IP based application directly into the network backbone with no restrictions
- These facilities have full redundancy between data centers
- The new Mobitex Switching Nodes (MSN) switches have been designed to accommodate significant subscriber and traffic growth
- The MSNs are telco grade and configured with dual power supplies and dual processors mirrored hard drives
We will keep you apprised regarding network upgrades as they are made.