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Airspan announced Tuesday that it deployed a WiMAX/WiFi solution at the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. The network was built and operated by Airspan, along with its partner, Consolidated Gulf, for Qatar Telecom (QTEL).

Included in the project was Airspan's MacroMAX and MicroMAX System-on-a-Chip ("SOC") base stations, which connected to 300 ProST/WiFi (News - Alert) customer access points, in order to create "HotZones" around the area where the Games took place.

The network served as a platform for high-speed Internet access for data, VoIP and multimedia (including picture/video clips) transmissions used by international news media crews. Users took advantage of Internet access via the WiFi HotZones, which were backhauled by WiMAX to the Internet. Direct WiMAX access was also made available for high-bandwidth applications.

“Airspan was delighted to have been chosen by QTel for the very important task of providing broadband wireless connectivity to the world’s leading media during the fifteen days of games in Doha. With CGC as our partner, we worked tirelessly to ensure that the solution set the standard by which internet connectivity and communications at other events will be measured,” said Airspan Networks’ (News - Alert) CEO Eric Stonestrom in a statement.

Once the Games concluded, the Airspan network was re-deployed in Doha and at other locations in Qatar.

Airspan worked on a similar deployment recently with TWAirnet of Taiwan. TWAirnet chose Airspan’s MicroMAX family of WiMAXTM products to launch WiMAXbased services in Taiwan. TW-Airnet selected Airspan for deployment of a WiMAXTM network in the 5.8GHz band in 11Taiwanese cities. TW-Airnet will use Chu-I Enterprise as its technology integration partner on this project.

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Johanne Torres is contributing editor for TMCnet and Internet Telephony magazine. To see more articles by Johanne Torres, please visit her columnist page.

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