The first phase of the multi-million dollar system deployment also
includes wireless coverage for the venue’s shopping center featuring
450 shops and restaurants and a six-floor underground parking garage.
Phase
II and Phase III, which are slated for completion in 2009, will bring
wireless coverage to four additional buildings, and a skyscraper at the
center of the complex.
“Powerwave is honored to support wireless
communications in this most sacred of venues,” says Ronald J. Buschur,
president and CEO, Powerwave Technologies, Inc. “Not only does Mecca
have the distinction of being one of the holiest places in the world,
the complex also is phenomenal from an architectural perspective, being
adjacent to the Grand Mosque, Masjid Al-Haram, which is considered the
world’s largest building in terms of built space. And its wireless
system also is distinctive – primarily in that it is the largest indoor
wireless coverage system of its kind in the world.”