Carrier class WiFi solution

29 September 2010 Telecoms, Datacoms, Wireless, IoT

Altai Technologies’ carrier class WiFi equipment comprises the A8 base station, Pico base station, C1 Super WiFi CPE and Altai Wireless Management System (AWMS).

Together, these elements are designed to meet what could be regarded as ‘typical’ city-wide WiFi networks requirements, which include:

* To build a city-wide network that maximises use of rooftops of schools, churches and other non-profit organisations.

* To cover 70% of 4 square kilometres in the suburban residential area and provide 802.11 b/g wireless services for over 30 000 residents.

* Support triple-play WiFi applications and bandwidth including VoIP, video streaming and other interactive applications.

* Minimise the total investment costs.

The ratio of an A8 Super WiFi to a standard access point (AP) is 1:6 for the same coverage area eg, in a six storey building where six standard APs would be required, only one A8 BST would be appropriate, thus reducing coverage cost per floor, as well as installation and consequently labour and time costs. In addition, the A8 can be configured to have up to 16 VAPs (virtual AP) and priorities can be set on each VAP for different services (video, voice and data). In this way, 16 different networks can be created without compromising QoS. The A8 can be mounted on street light poles or existing masts, and so does not only cater for carriers but also for SMEs and SMMEs who would like to provide WiFi based services.

Altai’s WiFi cellular system can operate in the same class as GSM cellular base stations which can perform in outdoor conditions with temperatures between

-40°C and +60°C, 100% humidity and operate in or survive wind speeds of 161 km/h and 217 km/h respectively. The equipment has uplink gain of more than 16 db, better allowing it to communicate with low-powered client devices. This last-mile equipment boasts characteristics such as system robustness, scalability, performance in an unlicensed frequency spectrum (2,4 GHz access and 5,8 GHz backhaul), large scale coverage because of backhaul switching and client association switching, as well as the ability to be managed.

Altai’s solution has been deployed in such applications as the government customs offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, universities in China, city-wide Wi-Fi Network in two US cities, and metro-scale networks in Malaysia.

For more information contact Telecom Southern Networking, +27 (0)10 223 7078, [email protected], www.telecomsouthern.co.za

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