In 2005, West Central Coop turned to RACOM to design and install a broadband wireless network that would connect all their facilities to their accounting system, Email and Internet from the main office. 

WCC is a full-service, farmer-owned cooperative located in west central Iowa that had been relying on 56 Kbps leased circuits for connectivity.  The monthly costs for these circuits was high and the speed created severe limitations on the applications that could be reasonably supported. 

The engineered solution includes 36 links and uses 20 Mbps Motorola Canopy radios for backhaul across distances of up to 28 miles per link. Downlinks to each facility use 10 Mbps Motorola Canopy radios.  The performance is so efficient that future plans include VoIP, video conferencing and possible hot-spots for mobile database access in the field.

More about West Central:

The corporate headquarters at Ralston, Iowa, acts as the hub for the company’s trade territory that spans ten counties and extends 55 miles in each direction. West Central operating divisions include grain, agronomy, feed, soy processing, and administration.

Annual Operations:

• Administration - Employs over 200 people
• Grain - Markets 65 million bushels
• Agronomy - Processes 175,835 bushels of seed beans for various seed companies
• Feed - Processes over 130,000 tons
• Soy Processing - Processes 6 million bushels of soybeans at the Soy Center and processes 2.2 million pounds of soy oil into methyl esters

www.west-central.com