| 6/9/08 - Proxim Wireless Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXM) announced that it has supplied broadband wireless equipment to TW-Airnet to provide Wi-Fi network coverage for visitors to and residents of Kinmen County, a group of islands 200km away from Taiwan.
Kinmen County is located in the Southwest of the Fujian province in China, but is under the control of the Taiwanese Government. It is comprised of Kinmen, Leiyu and other small islands. Its total area is around 153 km2 and has a population of over 80, 000. Kinmen is the largest island, and 95% of the county's population resides there. Direct travel between mainland China and Kinmen was opened in 2002, and since then there has been a significant increase in tourism to the island from the mainland. As part of the Taiwan Government's M-city project to deploy municipal wireless networks in major cities and growing areas, it was decided that Kinmen County should be able to offer Wi-Fi access to tourists and visitors.
Chu-I Enterprise Co. specified and deployed a total wireless solution for the Kinmen County network. Proxim Tsunami GX products were installed to provide the wireless backbone for Kinmen, as well as to provide a link between Kinmen and the smaller islands. Proxim Tsunami MP.11 products were deployed to connect all the villages together and ORiNOCO AP4000 MR-LRs are used to provide ubiquitous Wi-Fi voice and data access in each village.
"We evaluated the market and after an extensive trial chose Proxim Wireless over a number of other vendors due to the resilient and scalable nature of Proxim's equipment, as well as the price point of the solution. We worked closely with Proxim Wireless to optimize the network design and deployment, which has been a great success," explained Mr Jim Yu, General Manager, Chu-I Enterprise Co., Ltd.
"We are really pleased with the Kinmen Wi-Fi network, which can be easily accessed by tourists and is very convenient for visitors to the islands. We look forward to working with Proxim Wireless and Chu-I Enterprise for the extension of the Kinmen network and further deployment of another M-city project," said Mr Liang Chen, Executive Vice President, TW-Airnet.
"Demand for municipal networks is exploding and we are having a lot of success across the globe with our municipal deployments. Adding capacity or extending networks into new areas requires scalability, flexibility and resilience. Our end-to-end wireless broadband product portfolio differentiates us from our competitors and allows us to be a 'one stop shop' for our customers like TW-Airnet who need a variety of wireless products to achieve their connectivity desires," added Joshua Chan, VP Asia Pacific Sales at Proxim Wireless
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