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Powerwave (News - Alert) Technologies, a global source of wireless infrastructure solutions, is now providing wireless coverage for Latin America’s tallest office building, the 55-story Torre Mayor located on Mexico City’s famed Paseo de la Reforma.

 

With the solution, the building now offers its tenants and visitors uninterrupted access to wireless voice and data services.

The in-building wireless network, based on Powerwave’s Distributed Antenna System (DAS) technology, supports GSM1900, iDEN800 and CDMA800 commercial wireless frequencies throughout the 85,000-square-foot office building.

The system’s other components, which reside outside of public view, incorporate a fiber optic conversion module located within the centralized Base Station Hotel.

Using a common fiber-optic and coaxial backbone among the operators, the system is highly efficient and provides substantial cost savings over other competing solutions, as there are fewer initial infrastructure requirements and maintenance routines, shorter installation times, and more streamlined technology upgrades.

“Powerwave has designed coverage solutions for many complex environments including airports, trains and subway systems, tunnels, sports arenas and other indoor and outdoor facilities worldwide,” said Dave Quinn, vice president, Global Wireless Solutions.

“Our multi-technology platform is specifically designed to deliver the most reliable and cost-effective access to wireless communications in indoor environments such as Torre Mayor. With the design and implementation phase of the building’s wireless coverage system now complete, workers and visitors to the building can now experience seamless connectivity anytime, anywhere throughout the coverage areas.”

Powerwave Technologies’ wireless coverage system’s installation at Torre Mayor began in 2000, after Unwired Solutions de Mexico, a long-time partner of Powerwave Technologies, a neutral host in Mexico, chose Powerwave to help design and build the system.

“Prior to Torre Mayor, we had leveraged Powerwave’s antenna and repeater solutions in other projects, and were very confident in their ability to design and build an end-to-end wireless coverage system that would meet the needs of Torre Mayor and its tenants,” said Pilar Caudillo, president, Unwired Solutions de Mexico.

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