Altai Technologies

WiFi Mobile Internet for Everyone

When ISPs planned to deploy Internet service to household in rural areas they usually encountered the following problems:

Lack of cable/ fiber to households and in some older rural areas the quality of telephone cables is poor enough and sometimes Internet service is difficult to be realized, if not impossible, by using xDSL.

Congested block wiring in old buildings – an alternative method is to lay Unshielded Twisted Pair (UTP) cables and Ethernet switches. However, many old buildings have their block wiring duct congested with different kinds of cable already; which made addition of new cables extremely difficult to proceed. Further, fire safety regulatory may require another approval test conducted before the services can be provisioned.

Sparsely distributed houses – even if technical issues can be resolved, another question is whether it is cost-effective or profitable in provisioning for a particular residential customer if the aggregated customer base in that area is low. In many rural areas the houses are scattered sparsely across a large residential area. No ISP is willing to lay copper or fiber cables to these regions because investment is not justifiable.

High costs in laying fiber – the cost of laying optical fiber is not justifiable for low density rural areas at normal subscription fee. However, to increase in subscription fee is not workable as this will exceed the affordability of normal residents.
High costs in using mesh AP network. The major problem is the small coverage capability of just 90 m to 150 m per access point (AP), which means a large number of installation sites are required. Another problem is very low throughput and large time delay in deploying voice service, due to extensive hopping in network design in order to save for the Internet backhaul.

Altai won many successful rural application cases, when wired local loop method was completely not justified. A typical network solution is shown below:

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