Gwinnett County, Georgia is seeking a private company (or a group of companies) to build, own and run a community wireless broadband network throughout portions of the county. Gwinnett County (pop. 700,000) is one of America’s fastest-growing counties for the past 20 years. It is located 30 miles north of Atlanta.
Gwinnett County, Georgia is seeking a private company (or a group of companies) to build, own and run a community wireless broadband network throughout portions of the county. Gwinnett County (pop. 700,000) is one of America’s fastest-growing counties for the past 20 years. It is located 30 miles north of Atlanta.
Nine municipalities, colleges, chambers of commerce, healthcare groups and two local power companies within the county are coming together to pool potential demand and seek the best network possible for their constituents. They have outlined a minimum coverage area of a little less than 92 square miles, 21% of the total area of the county. They want
Click here to download the RFP.
The bidder’s conference is Thursday, Feb 15 at 10:00 am and proposals are due Tuesday, April 3.
Wow, what a fuss– I’d define this as being able to access ENUM directory or Asterix/SIP based technology from the inside of a WiFi network (meshed or otherwise): true roaming would include cell relay, but I think ENUM can “map(bind) to that”
For me, I’m “seemlessly” connected to:
my home network
my VoIP tunnel (usually Google Talk)
my WAN (the wireless network)
the Internet Gateway
…when I walk from my house to downtown Olympia, WA.
The client is “roaming” from AP to AP until I get to the RFI downtown, and start having to deal with too many VLANs running on the same spectrum (logins, dropped signal,channel conflicts, etc…).
–in part, this is why I’m such a big fan of public-use policies, esp. for WiFi & other “open” technologies.