ReFLEX
The SkyTel ReFLEX 2Way data network provides reliable and secure wireless connectivity for collecting and using data from fixed and remote assets. It has a nationwide footprint and runs in the licensed 900Mhz frequency band, with no competition with voice traffic. The ReFLEX network was the first to carry 2Way messaging and guaranteed message delivery. And during the Hurricane Katrina disaster, ours was the only network still up and running.
Key features include:
- Nationwide, extensive population coverage
- Easy provisioning and streamlined device certification
- Fully redundant Network Operating Centers protects your data transmission regardless of interruptions to switches, base stations or transmission lines - every site has battery backup and telco redundancy
- Guaranteed, instant, always-on network access
- True push functionality allows a host device to initiate transmissions to thousands of remote devices without being requested, ideal for emergency situations requiring command-and-control resolution
- ReFLEX’s narrowband spectrum is perfectly suited to sending short bursts of data without having to compete with voice transmission
- ReFLEX is tried and true – we have customers who have run applications on our network for over a decade
- Excellent in-building penetration
- Advanced message retry algorithms ensure your messages get through
- Message delivery confirmation so you know exactly when they did
- Devices have low power requirements
- Signals are broadcast from multiple towers
- Broadcast messages can be sent out to thousands of devices almost simultaneously