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All talk in Macau
The facilities and sheer size of Asia's newest and biggest resort hotel have got people talking. Ericsson's in-building telecommunications solution ensures guests can talk with ease.
November 14, 2007
It's big on numbers. The new Venetian Macau-Resort-Hotel opened on August 28, 2007, and is big enough to hold 90 Boeing 747 jumbo jets. It offers 3000 all-suite guest rooms, 100,000 square meters of retail space, 120,000 square meters of meeting, convention and exhibition space, and the 15,000-seater Venetian Arena. It is the world's largest casino and the largest building in Asia.
With all this space, it may be a comforting thought for the 52,000 anticipated visitors to this year's GSMA Mobile Asia Conference, held at the Venetian Macau-Resort-Hotel, that it also boasts an in-building telecommunications network that's up to the job of handling all their calls.
Ericsson was awarded the task in cooperation with CTM, Macau's main telecommunications provider. The brief was to provide the infrastructure that would enable seamless, high-quality wireless coverage across 2G and 3G networks for both commercial GSM/EDGE/WCDMA and CDMA, as well as professional users with Tetra coverage.
"Ericsson acted as end-to-end integrator for the whole project," says Danny Tan, head of In-Building Solutions at Ericsson in China. "We supplied everything from the original network design and site survey, to implementation, project management, system integration, optimization and system acceptance - all the services that are needed for a complete in-building solution."
"The key challenge was finding the implementation path," Tan says. "The system is so huge that the coordination of the implementation became our key focus." The solution was designed by a combined team from Ericsson offices in Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore, and the design stage was completed in just two weeks.
The choice of Ericsson's in-building wireless solution ensured that the traditional challenges of using mobile phones inside large buildings were overcome. The steel, concrete, stone and other building materials used in construction tend to block or attenuate cellular signals. The chosen solution for the facility delivers excellent cellular coverage to every interior area through a combination of on-site base stations and remote antennas.
Ericsson's solution for the million-square-meter facility produces quite a few impressive numbers itself. For a start, there are more than 100km of RF transmission cabling. Then there are some 3276 antennas throughout the facility that support a total of 11 systems operated by Macau's four largest operators (CTM, China Unicom, Hutchison and SmarTone). And the whole project was rolled out, from start to finish, in just nine months.
As the delegates from the world's telecom companies gather in Macau this November to discuss the hottest trends in the mobile communications industry, they'll be using the Ericsson in-building solution to plan the industry's future.
