Carrier-grade wireless broadband solutions are enabling municipalities to efficiently support public safety, healthcare, education and other city-wide applications in approximately 300 municipalities across 24 different states in Brazil. Alvarion says it is creating ‘Smart Cities’ dedicated to delivering superior services to residents and improving quality of life. These ‘Smart Cities’ were built using Wi-Fi solutions in the 2.4 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 5.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz frequencies, enabling a single unified wireless broadband network that supports a wide range of applications. Such applications include indoor and outdoor Internet access, classroom connectivity and e-learning, intelligent traffic and transportation control, video surveillance for public safety, online services for citizens and voice, video and data connectivity for government offices, hospitals and other service providers. An example of a ‘Smart City’ in Brazil is Feira De Santana City in Bahia State, a city of 600,000 residents. Feira De Santana is using the company’s solutions to advance educational services by connecting over 240 schools to the Internet, linking over 32,000 computers daily, and allowing children and their parents to connect to classroom materials from home. The city also deployed a highly secured private network to connect its public healthcare clinics, enabling medical records and patient information exchange between clinics.
