Kampung Tanpa Wayar with Mi-WiWi?

What is this Mi-WiWi? 
Sound familiar to a used to popular singer Mawi right? This is not about Mawi, I would like share with you guys with a ‘product’ or should I say a software (sorry with all this IT jargon, honestly not really good with it).  Every service provider nowadays aims to enrich Internet Broadband Access throughout the entire population enabling wireless internet and IT services to customers, if possible, for free.

Kampung Tanpa Wayar is a project run by MIMOS in order to supporting Malaysia’s Economic Transformation Plan’s (ETP) flagship for Communications, Content & Infrastructure  (CCI), Quantum Intelli Code used by MIMOS to afford broadband infrastructure via wireless access device technology to villages nationwide. Now, with Mi-WiWi, the villagers are able to enjoy seamless wireless connectivity and value-added broadband services.

Here’s some info on Mi-WiWi: 

Mi-WiWi Outdoor Access Device provides a complete range of products based on modular design to cater for comprehensive solution from simple WiFi Hotspot to a complex metropolitan network (Metronet). The modular design provides flexibility in the choice of wired or wireless (WiFi, WiMAX, HSDPA), provides for outdoor deployment with robust design and has been deployed over 250 sites nationwide.

Mi-WiWi is integratable with existing telecommunications infrastructure and has features such as: 

• Water and Dust-Proof - These features of the Mi-WiWi ensure that the access device survives harsh environment conditions and delivers distortion-free Internet access.
• Modular Plug-and-Play - Users can directly access the Internet via Mi-WiWi by simply connecting to its Hotspot. For ISPs, this access device supports fixed DSL, 3G, WiFi and WiMAX.
• Enable Value-Added Services - Multicasting and IPv6 provide end users with fast streaming features or wireless IPTV, localised content or advertising, surveillance services and local community VoIP communication; generating additional sources of revenue and value to ISPs and end users.
• WeMS and OTA - Mi-WiWi Element Management System (WeMS) and Over-The- Air (OTA) system provisioning technology allow centralise device administration and updating of software releases for all access devices and related devices within the network withou having to physically upgrade each unit manually.

Applications:

Mi-WiWi is able to extend enterprise Internet access, local IPTV applications, local community web accross and service packages to new and existing customers because its ease of setup and affordable cost of deployment. Mi-WiWi can be applied to provide wireless Internet access in these areas:

• Residential - Broadband in housing neighborhoods or personal home broadband such as Kampung WiFi, which has been deployed nationwide.
• Commercial - Free Internet in a shopping complex, coffee shop or campus such as Minicipal WiFi in Melaka.
• Vertical - Internal wireless network in a large company for surveillance, meter reading, sensor reading, port management or transportation.
• SME - Free Internet access to employees of a campus or enterprise, or WiFi Internet services for a region.

This technique actually will help away with the more labour and cost intensive installation of cables for connectivity. The relay technique is also easier to maintain. Currently, MIMOS is testing the proof concept at Ulu Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan.

Mi-WiWi AP for Kampung WiFi project
Source : MIMOS Berhad