Archive | March, 2008

Santa Fe deploys wireless across 35 schools

The Santa Fe public school system is deploying wireless networks over the next two years to serve some 14,500 students, faculty and staff in 35 buildings. The project, expected to cost $500,000 to $750,000, uses wireless equipment from Meru Networks to support streaming video educational applications.     Click here to read the press release.

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Azulstar leaves Winston-Salem Wi-Fi project

WinstonNet, Inc., the group attempting to launch free wireless Internet service in Winston-Salem, N. Carolina, announced this week that it is no longer negotiating with Azulstar, the service provider that was to deploy the network throughout the city and neighboring Forsyth County. According to Lynda Goff,  executive director of WinstonNet, Azulstar left the partnership early this year and [...]

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Commentary: Is ad hoc Wi-Fi an alternative to muni Wi-Fi?

Technology writer Jeremy Hsu, writing for the IEEE Spectrum, reports that widespread individual and corporate adoption of wireless technologies has produced a Wi-Fi cloud over Salt Lake City could be a “make do” alternative to a municipal wireless network. The article goes on to postulate “Such unplanned wireless networks could provide the foundation for integrated citywide [...]

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New Pittsburgh partner offers Wi-Fi for free

The partnership that sponsors Pittsburgh’s downtown Wi-Fi network has a new three-year contract with a new operating partner who isn’t charging it a dime for service.  The good news for Pittsburgh residents came last week when aspStation formally announced the contract it signed with the partnership in January. aspStation has already run the network for the [...]

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