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tate-owned telecommunication company PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom) has said it is ready to operate a world-class information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure to support the APEC Summit.

The company claimed that the network would be of better quality than that used for last year'€™s summit in Vladivostok, Russia.

'€œThis world-class event needs a reliable ICT network that is always on, and we are ready to operate it,'€ director for network IT and solutions Rizkan Chandra told the press on Tuesday.

The infrastructure consists of '€œswitch'€ (the main device to connect communication lines that includes the core switch, access switch and Wi-Fi controller); '€œtransmission'€ consisting of radio, satellite and fiber optics; and '€œaccess'€ comprising 1,500 Wi-Fi access points, 1,260 Base Transceiver Stations (BTS), six mobile Wi-Fi units and on-site spare parts.

'€œWe are operating additional core switches as the main line of communications, and have improved the existing ones. We are also operating two Wi-Fi controllers,'€ Rizkan said.

'€œTo ensure the availability and reliability of Internet access for summit delegates, we are providing three different lines for broadband transmissions: satellite, fiber optic and radio,'€ he added.

As for '€œaccess'€, the company placed 300 of its 1,260 BTS around the APEC Summit venues, all of which operate on the 3G network. Of the total BTS, 200 are newly built and 40 operate on the 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) network.

In addition to providing 1,500 Wi-Fi access points -- distributed across areas visited by delegates, from Ngurah Rai International Airport to Nusa Dua, Telkom has also prepared a Local Area Network in the venue, with a bandwidth of 2x10 gigabytes per second.

To support national and international television broadcasts, the company is operating seven mobile Satellite News Gathering units that have been placed at Bali Nusa Dua Convention Center (BNDCC), Bali International Convention Center (BICC), the airport, Sofitel hotel and in Bali Safari and Marine Park, which will be visited by the first ladies and delegates'€™ spouses.

At the international media center in BNDCC, the company operates 500 personal computers and 500 IP phones with free international calls.

'€œAll of our services and facilities offer a large coverage, particularly in five locations: media centers, the 13 accommodation facilities where the leaders are staying, security posts, the airport and main venues for the leaders'€™ summit and CEO summit,'€ said Muhammad Awaluddin, Telkom'€™s director for enterprise and business services.

All the infrastructure and services will be controlled and monitored in the '€œwar rooms'€ located in Jakarta and Bali. The company has also deployed a special team to operate the network and anticipate technical problems. The team will be on standby 24-hours a day to respond to complaints.

Telkom is collaborating with the country'€™s largest cellular operator Telkomsel to support the summit.

Abdus Somad Arief, Telkomsel'€™s director of networks, said that both companies had integrated the cellular services and Wi-Fi in the summit venues.

'€œWe provide the cellular services and Telkom provide the Wi-Fi. These two networks are available and support each other throughout the venue and surrounding area, so whenever people move from one place to another, they can always enjoy a good network that will be automatically detected by their handsets,'€ he said.

He said the company would operate 1,344 BTS and 10 mobile BTS to cover connections in south Bali. Of the total BTS, 181 were newly built to support the APEC summit.

On Monday, Telkom launched its APEC edition of Spin (Speedy Instant Internet Access), a pre-paid card to access Wi-Fi at 1,500 access points in southern Bali. For only Rp 5,000, customers can access a fast Wi-Fi connection simply by entering the username and password on the card.

For this special edition, Spin has been issued in the form of a postcard with pictures of some popular tourist spots in Bali.