NEC Tests Mobile WiMAX in Taiwan
NEC has commenced a full-scale mobile WiMAX (16e) trial with Tatung Company from Taiwan. This mobile WiMAX trial marks the first project to be conducted by NEC outside of Japan, and will continue until September, 2007.
After receiving an order for the trial system from Tatung in January of this year, NEC worked in collaboration with Tatung to prepare for implementation of the trial in Hualien city, in the eastern part of Taiwan. Hualien city plans to utilize the system for tourism and medical services in the future.
In this trial, NEC demonstrated internet access and video streaming service which achieved 6 Mbps throughput per user. It also verified the performance of NEC's WiMAX system by realizing smooth handover between base stations, and stable in-vehicle access while running. As a result, Tatung plans to acquire an official WiMAX business license in June.
This trial was conducted as part of the "M-Taiwan" project being lead by the Taiwan. M-Taiwan is a national project to establish a networked information society and to cultivate IT-related industries in the domestic market. Taiwan aims to upgrade its IT infrastructure based on wireless broadband application technology and cultivate domestic industries related to WiMAX, including application services, which are one of the major objectives of this project.
NEC signed a memorandum of understanding with a Taiwan's affiliated organization in February this year as part of the M-Taiwan project to cooperate with Taiwanese hardware and software industries in the development of WiMAX related products and applications.
Taiwan will be the host of the Asia Pacific WiMAX Conference & Exhibition (May 14 ¨C 15). This 2-day event will welcome more than 400 delegates from 17 countries and nearly 40 selected exhibitors from around the world.
