Actelis Receives Order and Delivers Instant, Secure Fiber-Grade Networking to Modernize City of Bakersfield, California

Business continues to build in addition to recent major Washington D.C. Department of Transportation order for $2.3 million

Hybrid-Fiber solution will help expedite the city’s street safety initiatives

FREMONT, Calif., May 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Actelis Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASNS) (“Actelis” or the “Company”), a market leader in cyber-hardened, rapid deployment networking solutions for IoT applications, today announced that it has fulfilled a new order for the City of Bakersfield, California to bring instant, fiber-grade network connectivity to the city’s traffic intersections. This order is part of a city-wide traffic management system modernization project where the Actelis solution enables connectivity from the city’s traffic operations center out to newly installed traffic controllers at each intersection.

Bakersfield is a major city in California with a population of over 400,000. As a significant economic and cultural hub, managing traffic flow and improving traffic safety are both of major importance. One key stated objective the city has in its 2023/2024 plans is to deploy adaptive signal timing which can provide improved travel experiences and a reduction in traffic congestion, leading to safer roadways. However, to enable such a technology to thrive, fiber-grade network connectivity is needed to enable real-time communication between the central control center and individual intersections. Actelis’ patented hybrid-fiber technology was chosen to give the city the fiber-grade performance it needs to achieve its objectives.

The city currently has a mix of fiber and copper wiring existing in its network, which is why the Actelis solution is an ideal choice for Bakersfield. Traditionally, a city would consider replacing the copper in the network with fiber because of performance concerns. However, the cost to deploy new fiber to intersections is expensive and time consuming. Actelis eliminates those costs, as well as the engineering efforts, by providing its patented solution that makes the copper perform like fiber, giving the city one single reliable, secure high-speed network transmitting valuable traffic information to the traffic management system in real-time.