China’s Shanghai Railway Bureau has installed Wi-Fi across eight railway stations throughout the city with the support of Wi-Fi technology provider Ruckus Wireless.
With a total coverage area of 400,000m², this new development will benefit more than 110,000 registered users of the Railway’s new i-station information system.
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The Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi infrastructure will help passengers to get up-to-date, real-time train schedules of Shanghai railway stations and additional useful train information.
Beijing Jianfei Science Company system architect Wang Bo said: "We really needed the kind of reliable, high-performance wireless network infrastructure that Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi provides.
"Not only to provide passengers with convenient internet access station-wide, it also empowers them to travel more confidently, since they can now more easily keep up-to-date on changing train status using their mobile devices from anywhere in the station."
Jianfei Science Company was responsible for the installation of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network for the Shanghai Railway Bureau.
The public Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi network comprises more than 600 Ruckus ZoneFlex indoor access points (APs), which are individually able to serve 500 concurrent users and the APs are managed through Ruckus ZoneDirector Smart Wireless LAN (WLAN) controllers.
Shanghai Railway Bureau operates around 11,000km of railways, more than 1,500km of inter-city railways and 503 stations, in addition to 17 stations in Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces.
