Unlike typical off-the-shelf wireless network devices, our devices incorporate three levels of hardware based encryption ensuring no loss of performance (throughput). In addition, only devices authorized specifically by our engineers can authenticate to our network preventing unauthorized use or attacks to the network.

All wireless links are encrypted with advanced 128-bit AES encryption to secure the communications.

Node authentication with MD5 certificates.

The hardware chipsets include hardware encryption with components that include three (3) standards of security:

• 128-bit AES
• Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP)
• Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) encryption

The network also provides strong authenication controls based on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Key management authentication is used to:

• Control which subscriber units can access the network.
• Ensure that only authorized nodes can participate in data forwarding. (this blocks man-in-the-middle attacks, and prevents non-mesh gateways from acting as mesh gateways).
• Control and protect configuration information (such as requiring that QoS levels be provided from authorized servers).
• Ensure that images can only be downloaded from authorized servers.
• Prevent theft of service by ‘cloning’.

Fixed broadband wireless mesh allows M9 Wireless to use and reuse spectrum via a “spider’s web” of redundant interconnected transceivers. Interference problems are handled by the radios themselves as they route around obstacles.

M9 Wireless SkyPilot uses mesh “only where mesh makes sense” and filling in with point-to-point and point-to-multipoint where more appropriate.

M9 Wireless Skypilot uses directional antennas, a different type of power, a different band (5.8 GHz) that solves a lot of the issues that once were obstacles to broadband wireless.

To accomplish economy-efficiency goals, SkyPilot is proprietary equipment built on top of inexpensive standards-based 802.11 silicon.

Using 802.11a and OFDM, M9 Wireless SkyPilot is delivering 18 to 24 Mbps line-of-sight data transmission in the 5.8 GHz spectrum out five or six miles and 12 Mbps at up to two miles non-line-of-sight.

M9 Wireless Skypilot can do point-to-multipoint topology, mesh topology, point-to-point … using the same components or a combination thereof in the same deployment.