Barcelona, Spain – February 13, 2006 – Option N.V. (Euronext: OPTI, OTC: OPNVY), the wireless technology company, today unveils the GlobeSurfer® HSDPA, the second member within its fixed-wireless product family aimed at delivering flexible wireless broadband connectivity to Small Offices, Home Office and Mobile Office environments. The GlobeSurfer® HSDPA is the fastest broadband wireless router available today and enables the user to establish an instant hotspot with a speed of up to 1.8 Mbps over an HSDPA connection and share this connection with multiple users.
Jan Callewaert, CEO Option: “We consider the fixed-wireless market important for our company and our network operator customers. The GlobeSurfer® HSDPA complements Option’s GlobeSurfer® 3G wireless router, launched in October 2005 and being marketed by O2 in Germany and TMN in Portugal. Bringing HSDPA technology to our wireless routers will further increase the market potential for this type of product and will further enable our customers to fully take advantage of their ongoing HSDPA deployments”.
Designed for ease-of-use, and simplicity of installation, the versatile GlobeSurfer® HSDPA is ideally suited to Small Office and Home Office environments where it can be shared by multiple users. However, comprehensive support and remote administration features combined with user-authentication capabilities make it a flexible and cost-effective solution to the challenge of providing reliable and secure data connectivity to Mobile or Temporary Offices.
The GlobeSurfer® HSDPA also opens up opportunities for public transport operators to add value for their own business customers by providing mobile hotspots in taxis, coaches, trains and ferries. It can also be used as a back-up, or disaster recovery solution, for traditional wired networking and fixed lines.
GlobeSurfer® HSDPA product information
Product Datasheet: https://www.option.com/products/globesurfer_3G_HSDPA.shtml
Product Pictures: https://www.option.com/news/6_3_presskit.shtml
For more information please contact
Douglas Ros, Vice President Business Development & Marketing
E-mail: d.ros@option.com
Frederic Convent, CFO
E-mail: investor@option.com
Tel + 32 (0) 16 317 411
For contacts at 3GSM World Congress
Jan Poté, PR & Communication Manager
Tel: + 32 (0) 475 92 55 82
E-mail: j.pote@option.com
ABOUT OPTION
Option NV (www.option.com), the wireless technology company, is a leading innovator in the design, development and manufacture of 3G WCDMA (HSDPA and UMTS), EDGE, GPRS, GSM and WLAN technology products for wireless connectivity solutions. Option has built up an enviable reputation for creating exciting products that enhance the performance and functionality of wireless communications. Option’s headquarters are in Leuven, Belgium. The company has Research & Development in Leuven, a Software and Applications development centre in Adelsried (Germany), a Wireless Router development centre in Stockholm (Sweden) and an ISO 9002 production engineering and logistics facility in Cork, Ireland.