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Deutsche Telekom has installed 24 Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex 7692 dual band 802.11n access points and seven ZoneFlex 7762 outdoor access points in the 57,000 seat HSH Nordbank Arena, home of the HSV (Hamburger Sportverein) football team. HSV is one of the oldest clubs in Germany (as of this writing, they are no. 4 in the Bundesliga). A [...]
There’s a bit of controversy over at the Apple discussion board over whether Borders free Wi-Fi supports the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Several people have complained that it works with the Mac but not the portable Apple devices. I remember bringing my iPod Touch to a Borders store and having trouble connecting. I wondered [...]
Novarum has just written an 8-page white paper titled “2010: Guidelines for Successful Large Scale Outdoor Wi-Fi Networks” which contains recommendations to service providers on what makes a successful large-scale outdoor Wi-Fi network today. These recommendations are based upon Novarum’s work between 2006 and 2009 testing over 175 wireless networks in 36 North American cities. [...]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) launched BroadbandMatch, a new online tool to facilitate partnerships among prospective applicants to the agencies’ broadband grant and loan programs (yes, I know it sounds like a dating service). The programs, funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, are intended to [...]
The Minneapolis Wi-Fi network has been completed after more than 2 years and $20M. The city’s service provider, US Internet, also claims they have 16,500 subscribers and that the number is growing. They hope to reach 30,000 in three years. The municipal government is an anchor tenant, paying US Internet $1.25M per year (for 10 [...]
A new book, The Healing of America, by veteran Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid, tells the important story of how people in many other countries get better healthcare for far less money than people in the U.S. Sadly, no one was able to force members of Congress read the book before they were allowed to vote [...]
The NTIA is delaying again the announcement of broadband stimulus grant winners. The agency hopes to announce the rest of the winning grant applications by the end of February 2010. Two months ago we reported that the NTIA would be making these announcements by December 2009. The NTIA received 1770 applications for $4.7 billion in [...]
Proxim Wireless (OTCQX: PRXM) is the only vendor that provides complete end-to-end wireless networks – including WiMAX, unlicensed point-to-multipoint, wireless backhaul, indoor/outdoor Wi-Fi mesh and WLAN technology. Proxim is 100 percent focused on wireless technology, and that focus enables us to provide a complete portfolio of WiMAX, unlicensed point-to-multipoint (PtMP), point-to-point (PtP) wireless backhaul, WLAN [...]
Ruckus Wireless has released its “Zap” wireless performance testing program to the Open Source Community to encourage further development of advanced testing tools that provide a better understanding of actual wireless network performance. Originally developed by Ruckus engineers to characterize wireless behavior of real-time IP-based video streaming applications, Zap is a wireless performance measurement utility [...]
The year 2009 started with municipal wireless left for dead by mainstream media, and it ended with billions in stimulus grant monies supporting the expansion of broadband throughout the world. From rural broadband expansion to making utilities smart, there is a brighter future for municipal wireless broadband networks and the applications support them. We have [...]
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