The granny Liu living nearby the Hualien County Hall is forced to visit the Family Medicine Department, the Hualien Hospital and report her blood pressure and blood sugar values every day. Granny Lu ages 80 now and she is one of the solitary seniors enrolled by the Hualien Hospital. Because she has been menaced by hypertension and diabetes for a long time, this situation makes her become a frequenter to the Hualien Hospital. However, from now on, it is not necessary to visit the hospital so often. She just turns on the video phone at home and doctors can implement visual diagnosis. Meanwhile, values measured by electronic blood pressure meters and blood sugar meters can be uploaded immediately. Daily routine medical care is thoughtfully implemented with 15 minutes less yet significantly saving granny Lu's traffic inconvenience. All the convenient welfare was started from WiMAX base station installed by the Tatung Telecom at the Hualien County Hall, together with an Accton Wireless Broadband (AWB) WiMAX wave 2 CPE installed in granny Lu's home.

“Now, it is much more convenient. I just push a button and doctors can reach me visually. It is not necessary to go outside for medical care. If I happen to suffer any discomfort, I can make a video phone call to doctors and nurses. They can also reach me visually and determine my situation. There is no long outpatient registering queue required but considerable money and time saved!” said granny Lu.

Currently, there have been 20 more solitary aging seniors like granny Lu receiving free remote medical care served by the Hualien Hospital. At the Hualien City Hall, after there are 7 WiMAX base stations installed, there are also some AWB WiMAX CPE installed at numerous aging seniors' home. Every one is very happy for such convenience available.

“When we received the happy gratitude from grannys and they showed no repelling reaction to the so-called advanced technology, I did feel that I just finished a fantastic charity!” said the AWB engineer who helped granny Liu for the installation for AWB WMAX CPE.

At the Chihsing Tan Katsui Museum located in Chihsing Lake, Hualien County, at the moment when the advertising screen was displaying the introduction information, there is another separate screen running with news headline, touring information in Hualien and weather forecast. All the contents displayed were collectively controlled in a server located at the outsourcing IT company. Through WIMAX, the information contents were promulgated to every advertising terminal. Currently, the interactive multiple media information stations (KIOSK) provided by some major scenic spots in Hualien are also transmitted through WiMAX to change the contents. Also, AWB WiMAX CPEs also play an important role to be the gateway between the WiMAX base station and advertising terminals.

“At present, when tourists visit Hualien for sightseeing, some information like touring, store coupons, maps, folks and customs and personal pix service is available on any given interactive multiple media information stations and advertising terminals. Through WiMAX, we can synchronously upload the content at various locales saving much manpower but dramatically improving efficiency. Furthermore, the Hualien County Hall wisely makes good use of WiMAX to promote various local industries and services. There is no space and time bound caged on Internet and Hualien is no longer a remote county far behind the prosperous western regions. With the aid of WiMAX, it will definitely become a new paradise of wireless digital world.” said one of the M-Taiwan project manager from the Hualien County Hall.

Above mention only describes a small proportion of the M-Taiwan project promoted by the Taiwan Government. In the future, through the establishment of WiMAX, there will be many more villages and townships benefited with more applicable service accesses of industry marketing, community care, medical service, security surveillance and touring guide well materialized.

“We believe WiMAX will certainly bring people with remarkably beautiful changes. It can make information shared and applied well around the world. Communication is no longer a bond caged by space and time. This is exactly the fantastic vision that AWB can see and all possible effort will be made to shape up a brilliant future.” said the AWB president – Doctor Liu Ming-shou. AWB is supplying WiMAX CPEs in cooperating with the Tatung Telecom under the M-Taiwan projects.

About AWB.
Accton Wireless Broadband Corp. (AWB) was established under the capital cooperation of both the leading Internet communication company – Accton (Stock Code: 2345) and the global leading WiMAX maker - Alvarion Technology Corp, (NASDAQGM: ALVR) (www.alvarion.com/) in 2006 with the premise located in Hsinchu Science Park. Our company contributes our utmost to innovative design and R&D for WiMAX technology with our mission to shorten the digital gaps. Our CPE products have been widely distributed to local and international markets and received honorable acclaim. For the upcoming 4G era, AWB will sincerely cooperate with consumers, clients and employees to become the globally leading maker in wireless broadband solution.
AWB offers a full ranges of WIMAX wave 2 CPE products supporting 2.3GHz, 2.5GHz and 3.5GHz frequency bands as well as MIMO technology. All products are IEEE802.16e-2005-compliant including PC Card, USB adapter, PCI express card, outdoor CPE and Indoor CPE. Every product has passed the IOT compatible tests for every major base station vendors. For more information, please refer to www.AWBnetworks.com.