ATHENS (Press Release). Redline Communications Inc., a provider of standards-based WiMAX and broadband wireless infrastructure products, today announced that OTE S.A. the largest telecommunications provider in Greece, has chosen Redline’s RedMAX^TM family of WiMAX Forum Certified^TM products for two of its three pilot WiMAX deployments in Greece. The RedMAX products will be deployed in Athens and the surrounding Attica regions as part of the pilot phase of OTE’s planned nationwide WiMAX deployment.

MARAC, Redline’s Certified Partner in Greece, will install the WiMAX Forum Certified RedMAX equipment to establish the WiMAX networks in both the dense urban Athens location and the suburban and rural Attica region.

‘The Athens and Attica regions pose great challenges, demanding technology that could deliver the most advanced broadband services to subscribers in densely-populated areas,’ said Mrs. Maria Efthimerou, Deputy CTO of OTE.  ‘After exhaustive testing, we chose Redline and its partner MARAC to provide the
combined technology and experience required to ensure the highest quality of services to our customers.’

OTE is among many of the world’s largest telecommunications companies to choose Redline’s broadband wireless systems to support the delivery of advanced communications. Carriers around the world are using RedMAX to deliver carrier-class broadband services including voice and video over IP, online games, corporate applications such as video conferencing and VPNs, to businesses and residential subscribers in a range of demanding market and geographic conditions.

‘As a trusted advisor to OTE for its WiMAX project, it was imperative that we partnered with the most proven and technically-capable WiMAX solution provider in the market,’ said Mr. Nikos Pipitsoulis, CEO of MARAC Electronics S.A. ‘Our long history of working with Redline and its products has given us the experience and the confidence we need to make OTE’s WiMAX project a success with RedMAX.’