Taipei 101's New Year's Bash Successful with Deployment of Multiple Altai A8-Ei Base Stations

The leading broadband solutions provider Altai Technologies played a significant role in making Taipei 101’s New Year's Eve Countdown event a super-success. By helping Fitel, the broadband wireless access operator for Taipei 101, provide Super Wi-Fi services at Taipei 101 on New Year’s Eve, Altai allowed about 1 million people to share their happiness during the gala event at one of the world’s landmark skyscrapers located in Taipei’s financial nerve center.

To cope with the huge demand for mobile internet during New Year's Eve, Fitel built another high performance wireless broadband network to complement its existing WiMAX network.

The world’s one of the largest building is located in a busy business district and in order to provide signal coverage to the millions of smartphone users, who had flocked to celebrate the new year’s countdown, the streets around Taipei 101 were covered with Wi-Fi networks.  

Twenty-three units of Altai A8-Ei Base Stations were reportedly deployed on the rooftops of buildings in the district to provide Super Wi-Fi service. The network was built and turned into full service in less than 1 week, Altai claimed in a press release.

In this densely urban environment, each Altai A8-Ei provided 650m line-of-sight signal coverage where every iPhone, iPad or smartphone user could directly connect to the base stations with a fast uplink and downlink Wi-Fi performance, officials with Altai explained.

Altai said that its flagship product, the A8 Super Wi-Fi base station, is being deployed with various WiMAX, 3G, CDMA and GSM mobile systems globally for 3G data offloading and city-wide Wi-Fi networks.

Altai’s Wi-Fi technology has been designed to dramatically improve the Wi-Fi signal coverage while minimizing interference from other signals broadcasting within the 2.4GHz unlicensed frequency spectrum.

The solutions have reportedly been trialed and deployed by more than 20 tier one operators around the world. The solution, according to its maker is suitable for both urban and remote application in over 60 countries and regions.

“This kind of outdoor celebration activity is a big challenge for a wireless broadband network because of the high user capacity especially when the clock neared midnight on December 31^st. We solved this problem using Altai's smart antenna technologies and a patented signal processing algorithm to provide the industry's best coverage per base station. Furthermore, we strengthen Wi-Fi signal coverage by installing several base stations in the same area to provide cross coverage,” Chi-hung Lin, president and CEO of Altai Technologies explained in a statement.

Earlier this month, Altai Technologies successfully completed trials of its end-to-end WISP solution with Fiber Optics and WiMAX operators in North America following its successful deployment of an island-wide wireless broadband network in Jamaica last year (a single Super Wi-Fi network covering over 2 million people).