Far EasTone chooses Nortel WiMAX.Residents of Taipei County Taipei County (Traditional Chinese: 臺北縣 or 台北縣; Hanyu Pinyin: Táiběi Xiàn; Tongyong Pinyin: Táiběi Siàn; Wade-Giles: T'ai-pei Hsien; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-pak-koān) is located in northern Taiwan and encircles Taipei in Taiwan will benefit from wireless broadband access when Far EasTone Telecommunications (FET FET: see transistor. (Field Effect Transistor) One of two major categories of transistor; the other is bipolar. FETs use a gate element that, when charged, creates an electromagnetic field that changes the conductivity of a silicon ), one of Taiwan's largest telecommunications operators, launches its Mobile WiMAX network from Nortel. As a participant in the government's M-Taiwan initiative, FET will offer mobile broadband services across Taipei County. Once deployed, subscribers will be able to use the network to access high bandwidth services such as streaming video, music, IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. , VoIP, videoconferencing and corporate applications from nearly anywhere using laptop computers or other WiMAX-compatible devices. With more than six million subscribers to its mobile services, FET is one of Taiwan's largest wireless operators. In addition to FET's involvement in the M-Taiwan initiative, the company is one of the winners of the WiMAX radiofrequency spectrum in Taiwan's recent license bid. Taiwan plans to roll out WiMAX commercial services in 2008 with six licenses issued to mobile operators in July 2007. FET's network will be built from Nortel's Mobile WiMAX Solution portfolio with MIMO (Multiple Input/Multiple Output) Pronounced "my-mo," it is the use of multiple transmitters and receivers (multiple antennas) on wireless devices for improved performance. capability, including 16e Base Stations and an Access Service Network (ASN (1) (Autonomous System Number) A unique identifier of an autonomous system on the Internet. Of the 65 thousand ASNs available, more than 30 thousand have been assigned to ISPs and NSPs. ISPs usually have only one ASN, but NSPs may have more than one. ) Gateway. Nortel will also provide network management services from its Global Services portfolio. www.nortel.com |
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