China Unicom launches WLAN equipment bidding will start a new round of construction

April 20 News, China Unicom in the recent start of the WLAN tender, will start a new round of construction, the number of tenders is unknown, but the industry is expected to be more than last year's 200,000 units. According to the relevant announcement, China Unicom has been under the Chinese Unicom Import and export company in 2011 Unicom WLAN Project Wireless access equipment for tender, the scope of the tender includes wireless access point (AP) equipment, wireless access Controller (AC) equipment and the corresponding network management equipment. Among them, AP equipment is divided into 802.11a/b/g and 802.11n two categories, manufacturers can 802.11a/b/g a class of products for bidding or for 802.11a/b/g and 802.11n two types of products. It is reported that manufacturers have purchased pre-trial documents before April 15 and submitted tender documents before April 18. Prior to 2010, China Unicom purchased 200,000 WLAN equipment, with AP accounting for Two-thirds, while AC accounted for One-third. China Unicom has also begun to promote the use of WLAN, this year January 1 March 31, China Unicom after the pay mobile phone users in China Unicom national WLAN public hotspot coverage area, unlimited, no limit to the free access to use WLAN network. and subsequently announced the free use of the extension.