Naperville, Illinois, planned to coordinate deployment of its municipal wireless network with that of neighboring Aurora, but pole attachments are complicating the story. Their story shows how no one size fits all in muni-wireless.Naperville, Illinois, planned to coordinate deployment of its municipal wireless network with that of neighboring Aurora, but pole attachments are complicating the story. Their story shows how no one size fits all in muni-wireless.
The Herald-News has an interesting story about Naperville’s effort to bring up the first stage of its citywide wireless network before the end of May. The city is working with MetroFi Inc., which is also building out the municipal network for neighboring Aurora. Being neighborly, Naperville scheduled its deployment to follow Aurora’s. But Aurora, which does not own the light poles in the city, is having difficulty getting pole attachment rights from ComEd.
Naperville, which does own its own light poles, is poised to move ahead and looks to deploy a pilot next month.
The story of these two suburban Chicago cities is interesting because it reveals how unique each municipal deployment is in intent, design and deployment, even when the cities are similar.
Click here to read the story.
No comments yet.