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• Author: Sipple, Suzette
• Position: Brief Article

SwitchPoint Networks Inc. (www.switchpointnetworks.com), formerly known as Airswitch, has quietly set up the necessary infrastructure to provide customers with next-generation Internet access, delivering speeds of 100 megabits per second which is up to 500 times faster than DSL and six times faster than standard business links.

SwitchPoint presently appears to have a corner on the market with its groundbreaking technology. It offers an economical deployment package that can be constructed for far less than the cost of competing technologies such as DSL, cable modems and fiber-to-the-home implementations.

After successful beta testing in both Springville and American Fork, SwitchPoint is gearing up for rollouts in Provo, Orem and Pleasant Grove. According to Kurt Allman, executive vice president of SwitchPoint, "Once a city has entered into a franchise agreement, depending on the size of the city, it could take from six months to a couple of years before all the physical groundwork is up and...