ESTeem Wireless Modems

02/27/2024

It is with sadness that we announce the passing of one of ESTeem’s founders and long-time company president Tom Kirchner. Tom was president of ESTeem since the company’s inception in 1982 until his retirement in 2015. Tom continued serving on the company’s board of directors until 2021. For those of us that had the privilege of working with Tom, he was a great mentor, teacher and friend. He will be missed by everyone in the ESTeem family.

Tommy Lee Kirchner, age 75, passed away on February 17, 2024 from complications due to Alzheimer’s. Tom was born in San Antonio, Texas on September 4, 1948 to parents Ron and Rachel Kirchner. He is survived by his wife, Florence; daughter: Suzanne and husband Jeff; grandchildren Emma and Ellie; so...

08/22/2023

The physical challenges to the communication path such as distance 🗺 and terrain 🏔 will greatly influence which radio will be solve your wireless needs. No one frequency band or technology can solve all applications. ESTeem’s ability to provide multiple frequency choices gives us flexibility to solve any wireless application.

Today’s Wireless Networks are an essential component in achieving a completely connected network platform and secure IIoT infrastructure. Choosing the correc...

08/08/2023

🚨 4 Considerations in Designing a Mobile Industrial Wireless Network 🚨

1. Identifying the necessary coverage area

2. Using the proper software

3. Defining how the mobile device will “roam” the network

4. Testing signal levels at both ends of the system

Mobility is one of the defining features of an industrial wireless network. But designing and testing for mobile applications have their own, unique challenges, requiring a separate set of considerations and even different RF design software. Rather than blindly buying and implementing a wireless ne...

07/25/2023

Did you know?! 📢

ESTeem provides high-power, industrial grade WiFi solution made to last. Our Horizon radios can used as the base radios (Access Points) or as high-power mobile clients!

The ESTeem Horizon 2.4 GHz and Horizon 5.8 GHz can support mobile WiFi clients simultaneously to linking remote assets with Mesh based protocols.

Today’s Wireless Networks are an essential component in achieving a completely connected Ethernet network platform and secure IIoT infrastructure. Utilizing ...

07/11/2023

Omni-Directional? Directional? Beamwidth? Polarization? Antenna Gain? 🤔 How to pick the right antenna for your application? 📡 Antenna design and development are their own science, luckily ESTeem has simplified this for you and we are always here to help pick the right antenna for your application!

Antenna design and development are their own science. We could do a deep dive into antennas and their role in wireless network design and not come up for air for weeks. But the more useful approach for the wireless user is a basic understanding of the major types of antennas and the terminology used...

06/20/2023

What is Mobility? 🚄 🚜 🚌 🚛 🚑
In the digital factory transformation, mobility provides key data to the people and devices where it is needed. Rarely are these in a fixed location so it is up to the wireless network to provide the data on the move.

Today’s Wireless Networks are an essential component in achieving a completely connected Ethernet network platform and secure IIoT infrastructure. Utilizing ...

06/06/2023

Adding Frequency in a Crowded Manufacturing Environment? 🤔

ESTeem decided to solve that problem by developing a radio on the 900 MHz unlicensed band that can operate at higher speeds with complex communication networks outside of WiFi based frequencies.
It's the Horizon 900 Radio! ✅

ESTeem’s Horizon 900 Series of 900 MHz ethernet radios offers high speed, secure network communications that make it ideal for many industrial applications.

05/30/2023

📢ESTeem NEWS📢

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05/16/2023

💻👮Cybersecurity is the most challenging issue facing the implementation and updating of wireless networks.
ESTeem has worked hard to implement a multi-layer security model to provide maximum flexibility to meet your network requirements🔐

Today’s Wireless Networks are an essential component in achieving a completely connected network platform and secure IIoT infrastructure. Utilizing new wirel...

05/02/2023

Industrial wireless networks are so integral that it can be difficult to determine where to start troubleshooting when a problem arises.🔧We have developed five🖐simple troubleshooting steps to help determine if the radio system is the problem. Check them out below! 👇

Industrial wireless networks are an integral part of most control or enterprise communications. They collect data, convey video and trigger actions that are critical to operations. In fact, industrial wireless networks are so integral that it can be difficult to determine where to start troubleshoot...

04/18/2023

What is ESTeem IndustrialMESH Technology?⚙️
💡Built with purpose
💡Self-Healing, redundant, backup communication paths – Automatic Switching
💡Canopy for WiFi coverage
💡Assure data reliability between devices
💡Uses standard network Spanning Tree Protocol (STP, RSTP, MSTP)
💡Routes are configured, controlled and prioritized by user
💡Self-Healing = Reliability

Today’s Wireless Networks are an essential component in achieving a completely connected network platform and secure IIoT infrastructure. Utilizing new wirel...