MuniWireless

Edward Markey, the new chair of the U.S. House subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet intends to shake up debate on issues like network neutrality, media mergers, and municipal broadband.Edward Markey, the new chair of the U.S. House subcommittee on telecommunications and the Internet intends to shake up debate on issues like network neutrality, media mergers, and municipal broadband.

In an interview this week with The Boston Globe, the Massachusetts Democrat outlined an agenda that, according to The Globe, “could pit…

One of the technology consultants working on a broadband plan for the town of Orick in California redwood country recommends a strategy for other communities planning broadband networks.The town of Orick, California, tucked among the redwood forests of northern California, is studying implementation of a public broadband network. Tina Nerat, a board member of the Redwood Technology Consortium and co-owner of Neratech technology consultants, reviewed the strategy proposed for the Orick plan in a recent local newspaper column and recommends…

AT&T has negotiated a muni-wireless deployment with Napa, Calif., a city that floated no tender inviting other proposals. The company is also negotiating with St. Louis where there is also no public tender. Is this becoming a trend?This week the city of Napa, California, announced it reached an agreement with AT&T on plans to build a 12 square-mile wireless broadband network for the city.

It appears that Napa, like St. Louis which is presently negotiating a deployment with AT&T, set forth…

“Public broadband” is very different from private ownership of municipal networks, argues Becca Vargo Daggett in a column that takes on Civitium and MuniWireless.com.”Public broadband” is very different from private ownership of municipal networks, argues Becca Vargo Daggett of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, in a column that takes on Greg Richardson’s lament over the ideological issues that stymied San Francisco’s plans for a municipal wireless network .

In the column, she incorrectly characterizes MuniWireless.com, saying this web site “appears to…

MeshDynamics’ wireless mesh products deliver uniquely high performance in outdoor networking. Unlike earlier generations of mesh technology, MeshDynamics’ “Third Generation” products use multiple radios and dynamic channel assignment. This means easy installation, high bandwidth, and low latency and jitter to support demanding data, video, and voice requirements. Performance is 50X-1000X greater than other WiFi mesh products over multiple hops.

Customers around the world are replacing their earlier wireless mesh solutions with the MD4000 family of WiFi mesh…

Tropos Networks, makers of metro-scale wireless mesh networks, has introduced a new family of 4.9 GHz mesh routers with policy-based routing for the public safety market.Tropos Networks, makers of metro-scale wireless mesh networks, has introduced a new family of 4.9 GHz mesh routers with policy-based routing for the public safety market.

Policy-based routing enables network administrators to set policies that allow public safety officers to use both 2.4 GHz and 4.9 GHz clients.

The three new MetroMesh routers include two dual-band, 2.4…