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October 31, 2005
Fusion Joins "Wi-Fi Resort Seagaia" Project
Trial Introduction of Mobile IP-Centrex Based on Wireless LAN Mesh Begins
Fusion Communications Corporation has joined a pilot project being carried out by Phoenix Resort K.K., which runs Phoenix Seagaia Resort. In trial operation now, the "Wi-Fi Resort Seagaia" Project aims to provide mobile IP phone, high-resolution image transmission, and data transmission services based on a wireless LAN mesh network.
The "Wi-Fi Resort Seagaia" Project is being jointly carried out by Seagaia, Minaminihon Network Co., Ltd., and PSI, Inc. It involves creating a wireless LAN mesh to cover all of the Seagaia resort complex, a 10-km-wide area that includes a hotel, convention center, golf course, and other facilities, thus providing an advanced, highly convenient communications environment. Project planners are looking into providing such services as real-time image transmission of events in addition to offering high-speed Internet access and mobile IP phone service via the wireless mesh network. A successful implementation is expected to provide the kind of added value that will attract local and international conventions and large-scale events, as well as improve employees' work efficiency.
The current pilot trial will establish a wireless LAN environment at the World Convention Center "Summit," famous for its hosting of a recent international summit. The environment will provide high-speed Internet access and a mobile IP phone voice communications system. During the trial period that will last from November 1 to December 29, customers will be loaned mobile IP phone handsets free of charge. Once service verification is completed, efforts will be made to put the system into full operation.
Fusion is participating in the trial as a provider of Mobile IP-Centrex solutions. The mobile IP phone service implemented through Fusion Mobile IP-Centrex solutions will allow voice calls between mobile IP phone handsets at the wireless LAN spot, as well as low-rate outside call initiation, and phone call reception on 050 numbers, thereby providing great convenience to convention organizers and guests at the Summit. This solution, moreover, does not require the setup of such equipment as a IP-PBX or SIP server on the premises, which allows a mobile IP phone environment to be created at low cost.
An important feature of this project is that the communications environment is based on a wireless LAN mesh network. Such a system involves the use of wireless connections among multiple LAN base stations using a minimum number of backbone connection points. This makes possible a planar area of coverage, which can vastly reduce implementation costs in comparison to a conventional system for a place like Seagaia, which has both indoor and outdoor facilities, including an expansive golf course.
Fusion has been conducting field testing for wireless LAN mesh networks since January 2005 and is studying wireless LAN environment building technologies and needs for such implementations. Working in the area of wireless LAN environments, Fusion Mobile IP-Centrex solutions plans to provide services of great convenience to meet a variety of user needs in the future.
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