Santa Clara County and six cities in northern California are conducting a cost-benefit analysis in a major review of muni wireless to determine their participation in Wireless Silicon Valley.Santa Clara County and six cities in northern California are conducting a cost-benefit analysis in a major review of muni wireless to determine their participation in Wireless Silicon Valley.
Palo Alto, Campbell, San Jose, Santa Clara, Mountain View, and Milpitas are participating in the review. Wireless Silicon Valley proposes to unwire 44 cities from Santa Cruz to South SanFrancisco in a municipal deployment that represents one of the largest in the world. The project of Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a consortium of Cisco Systems, IBM, SeaKay, and Azulstar, is to be funded through a not-for-profit established by SeaKay.
The network, expected to cost $100 million to $150 million, is running behind schedule. The cities are not footing the bill to build the network but participating communities will be asked to subscribe to a certain level of service when the system is operational.
A number of the cities participating in the review have already taken steps toward participation Palo Alto, for instance, has agreed to be a test site for the network but the cities are awaiting a model contract from the consortium and the deployment is running behind schedule.
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