ERF Wireless announced earlier today that its subsidiary has completed and initiated services on a BranchNet encrypted enterprise-class wireless banking network for West Texas State Bank. The wireless network connects the West Texas State Bank Operations Center located in Odessa, Texas, with all five of its branch locations in Monahans, Kermit, Midland and Odessa, Texas.

“West Texas State Bank is going to be amazed by the speeds generated by this network,” commented Jay Bilden, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Network Operations for ERF Wireless. “This is now one of our model networks and it empowers West Texas State Bank to not only deploy data-intensive applications, but also voice and video technologies which will bring efficiencies to almost every facet of their business. This network will also accommodate the bank’s growing broadband needs for many years to come and will result in a substantial decrease in their network operating costs.”

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