Hughes Demonstrates LMDS Solution

As Taiwan prepares to issue competitive local exchange carrier (CLECs) licenses in early 2000, Hughes Network Systems (HNS; Germantown, MD) has started trials on a Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) solution. According to HNS, the new solution, called AIReach, can be employed by CLECs to deploy a range of telephony, telecommunications, and Internet services to users in Taiwan.

AIReach Broadband is a fiber-class wireless access system designed to offer high bandwidth services to business and multi-dwelling residential customers. HNS' second-generation, point-to-multipoint radio product integrates access for services such as switched voice, high-speed data—either circuit-switched, time division multiplexed (TDM), or packet-based. Using spectral efficiency modulation, the AIReach Broadband system provides 45 Mb/s of information in a 12.5 MHz radio channel. In addition, the system is easily adaptable and scaleable to the needs of service providers.

In partnership with a Zhongyang University in Taipei, and several third-party vendors, HNS has demonstrated AIReach Broadband 9000's high-bandwidth capabilities. To do this, HNS and the other organizations performed a variety of real-time applications including voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), Internet access, IP videoconferencing, local area network (LAN) interconnection, and telephone access lines via wireless connections.

For more information on the AIReach LMDS solution, contact HNS at 301-428-5599.

Edited by Robert Keenan