The Coastal Wave network is designed from the ground up with reliability in mind. With multiple connections to separate upstream providers, traffic automatically gets rerouted in the unlikely event that one of the connections should fail.

Expandability was also a primary target in the network design. As Coastal Wave's subscriber base has grown, so has our network. Since our network first went into production, we have added dozens of tower sites and increased our upstream capacity by more than 1500%. As the needs of our customers grow, our network will comfortably grow to match.

Our core network and wireless access-layer network is powered by Cisco brand routers, switches, and wireless access points. Cisco is known in the networking world as the leader in Internet routing and switching technologies.

Coastal Wave's wireless network also employs point to point solutions from Proxim and Trango -- both leaders in wireless broadband.

All of our servers and core networking equipment are located in downtown Port Clinton, Ohio. Our facility is fully climate controlled. Our power system is backed up by APC battery backups and an auto-start and auto-transfer Generac Guardian propane generator, allowing our network to function even during a long-term blackout.

A solid network would be nothing without a staff to support it. The network is monitored 24/7 by advanced monitoring systems. Wireless and network engineers are on-call at all times to respond to any outages that occur - at any time of day.