SKYPILOT MAPS EVOLUTION PATH TO WiMAX MESH ARCHITECTURES.

Reports that SkyPilot Networks, a broadband wireless equipment vendor, has chosen Fujitsu Microelectronics America Inc.'s WiMAX system-on-a-chip to power its WiMAX mesh for a planned launch in 2006 in the United States. Launch of the SkyExtender DualBand, a dual-band radio mesh architecture based on SkyPilot's synchronous mesh protocol, in the burgeoning market for municipal wireless mesh networking; Cost of deployment per node; Frequencies of the band to avoid interference with the backhaul.