Bangkok--18 Jul--Aziam Burson-Marsteller
The Taipei City Government and Nortel* [NYSE/TSX: NT
] shared their experience of creating city-wide broadband wireless networks to drive productivity and power commerce with civic and business leaders from around the world at the 2006 Digital Cities Convention in Taipei.
Recently in New York, competing against six other cities, Taipei was awarded the ‘2006 Intelligent Community of the Year’ by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) in recognition of its transformation into a wireless cyber-city. ICF is a nonprofit organization formed in 2000 by the World Teleport Association. ICF focuses on job creation and economic development in the broadband economy.
When implementation is completed in 2006, Taipei expects to provide coverage for 90 percent of its population via 5,000 access points deployed across the city’s 272 square kilometers. Nortel provided the urban wireless broadband infrastructure, based on its Wireless Mesh Network Solution, and installation, optimization and maintenance services from the Nortel Global Services portfolio.
“An essential component of an ‘Intelligent Community’ is providing citizens, enterprises and government departments with a comprehensive wireless broadband infrastructure that allows instant ‘anywhere, anytime’ high-speed access to increasingly ubiquitous digital applications and services,” said Michael Pangia, president, Asia, Nortel. “The selection of Taipei City as 2006 Intelligent Community of the Year strengthens Nortel's commitment to working with government, business and educational institutions to make Taiwan an international showcase for wireless broadband innovation.”
The 2006 Digital Cities Convention in Taipei provided an opportunity for mayors, executives, government officials, community organizations and research institutes from other countries to observe, in action, a wireless broadband infrastructure that is among the most closely watched in the world. Through keynote speakers — including Michael Pangia — panel discussions and case studies, participants were be presented with a complete update on broadband wireless technologies and applications, as well as first-hand experience in how they can be deployed to foster social and economic development.
Nortel is keenly focused on WiMAX, an emerging wireless technology designed to cost-effectively extend the reach of existing access networks, as well as deliver significant improvements in speed, throughput and capacity. Nortel is a member of the WiMAX Forum and has contributed to the 802.16 standard by helping develop underlying technologies like OFDM and MIMO for more than seven years. It also holds several key patents in these areas.
In Taiwan, Nortel is supporting dominant service provider Chunghwa Telecom in the deployment of a new WiMAX Trial Park, trialing WiMAX at the National Taiwan University, and recently announced the establishment of a Center of Excellence for WiMAX Devices. Through this center Nortel will enhance collaboration with local vendors both in furthering WiMAX as an integral component in the government’s ongoing island-wide Mobile Taiwan (M-Taiwan) initiative and in promoting global WiMAX device availability.
Nortel has designed, installed and launched more than 300 wireless networks in over 70 countries. Nortel was the industry's first supplier with wireless networks operating in all advanced radio technologies and is the only end-to-end provider of all next generation wireless solutions.
Nortel Wireless Mesh Network Solution
About Nortel
Nortel is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the world’s most critical information. Our next-generation technologies, for both service providers and enterprises, span access and core networks, support multimedia and business-critical applications, and help eliminate today’s barriers to efficiency, speed and performance by simplifying networks and connecting people with information. Nortel does business in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit Nortel on the Web at www.nortel.com . For the latest Nortel news, visit www.nortel.com/news .
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