Intel WiMAX broadband connects remote Amazon city

Stan Beer
Thursday, 21 September 2006 07:58

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The Parintins project involved installation of a state-of-the-art WiMAX network for a primary healthcare center, two public schools, a community center and Amazon University. Intel also donated and installed telemedicine equipment at the health center and computer labs at the two schools where students and teachers can regularly connect to the outside world for the first time.

“Technology has expanded what is possible in Parintins,” said Intel Chairman Craig Barrett at a dedication ceremony yesterday on the site. “It is now a place where wireless broadband links to the Internet bring the expertise of specialists, sophisticated medical imaging and the world’s libraries to a community reachable only by airplane or boat.”

In addition to Intel, support for the project was provided by Cisco, CPqD, Embratel, Proxim and the Bradesco Foundation, as well as Amazonas State University, Amazonas Federal University and São Paulo University.