The Jiatai Substation High Disaster Resistance Base Station, located in Taibao City, Chiayi County, is the first demonstration base built in conjunction with Taipower Substation in Taiwan. It has the resilience of power, transmission and structure. (Provided by the Digital Development Department)
In order to reduce the risk of communication interruptions caused by natural disasters, the Ministry of Data and Information Technology has worked with telecom operators through subsidy programs to accelerate the disaster resistance and backup resilience of communication network facilities, and to build Taiwan's first "highly disaster-resistant base station" integrated with Taiwan Power Substation. This base station was completed in Taibao City, Chiayi County in June this year (115). It has withstood the test of typhoons Bawei and Qiangbi, and has operated stably and continued to provide mobile communication services.
Lin Yijing, Director of the Department of Digital Development, went to the Jiatai Substation in Chiayi County today (3rd) to learn about the construction results of the highly disaster-resistant base station. He said that based on past experience in natural disasters, the main cause of mobile base station failure is power outage, followed by optical cable interruption. Therefore, how to ensure that base stations can continue to operate during disasters has become an important issue in strengthening the resilience of communication networks.
This highly disaster-resistant base station located in Taibao City, Chiayi County is the first demonstration base built in conjunction with Taipower's substation in Taiwan. It has the resilience in three aspects: power, transmission and structure.
First, in terms of electricity, the advantage of stable power supply in substations is used to reduce the risk of base stations interrupting services due to power outages. Secondly, in terms of transmission resilience, the three telecom operators have built laser optical transmission equipment as the second transmission route of base stations to reduce the impact of single path interruption on communication services. Third, in terms of structure, the wind resistance of base station facilities has been improved to withstand strong winds of level 15 to ensure that they remain stable when a typhoon strikes.
The Ministry of Digital Development explained that in order to ensure that reliable mobile communications services can continue to be provided to the public during disasters, a forward-looking plan has been used from 2012 to 2014 to subsidize telecom operators to complete the construction or optimization of 93 highly disaster-resistant base stations, all with 72-hour backup power, The second transmission route or tower can withstand 15-level winds; at the same time, 55 mobile base vehicles will be purchased or optimized, and 107 units will be purchased. Business operators are urged to purchase 840 mobile generators to enhance communication resilience through mobility and shorten the time for communication recovery in disaster areas.
In addition, the Ministry of Data and Information Technology also subsidized telecom operators to complete the construction of 46 pairs of microwave systems in mountainous areas and outlying islands to improve the resilience of base station backhaul networks.
The Ministry of Digital Development stated that from 2011 to 2018, it will continue to use the "Strengthening the Digital Resilience of Government Key Nodes and Remote Communication Networks Plan" to encourage telecom operators to accelerate the construction of highly disaster-resistant base stations in remote villages, outlying islands, isolated island areas and disaster areas, while also expanding microwave capacity in remote areas and outlying islands, and optimizing satellite operation base vehicles to reduce the impact of natural disasters on public communication services.
