Archive | September, 2011

Meru upgrades E(z)RF Network Management Suite, intros Network Management Appliance

Meru Networks has announced upgrades to the Meru E(z)RF® Network Management Suite and introduced the new SA2000 Network Management Appliance (list price: $6995).  The combination of solutions streamlines management and optimization of large wireless networks and gives administrators the ability to provision, test, troubleshoot and optimize the wireless networks for higher overall quality of service [...]

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Hollywood, FL muni Wi-Fi network a flop

Two years ago, we reported that Hollywood, Florida hired Johnson Controls to deploy a citywide Wi-Fi network for automated meter reading, parking meters, and public Wi-Fi access. As you can see from the more than 90 responses to my original post about the Hollywood, FL network, the public access side of the network was unreliable. [...]

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AT&T launches Wi-Fi hotzone on University Ave in Palo Alto, CA

AT&T has launched an AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Zone in Silicon Valley to provide Wi-Fi coverage on Palo Alto’s University Avenue, the heart of the city’s retail, entertainment and restaurants near Stanford University. The new hotzone is very limited: only from the 300 block to the 500 block of University Avenue, which consistently sees high customer traffic and mobile data use. [...]

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Wednesday afternoon reads: largest smart grid projects, Verizon unleashed

For your reading pleasure this Wednesday 7 September 2011: How carriers hamstring your smartphone: team at the University of Michigan and Microsoft Research has uncovered, for the first time, the frequently suboptimal network practices of more than 100 cellular carriers. Here’s the paper entitled An Untold Story of Middle Boxes in Cellular Networks. Ten largest US [...]

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UK issues public tender for smart grid communications network

The Department of Energy and Climate Change of the United Kingdom has issued a public tender (request for proposals or RFP) for a company (or companies) to provide communications services to connect smart electricity and gas meters in up to 30 million households and businesses in the UK. These services will consist of wide area [...]

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Tales from the Towers, Chapter 27: 2.4 GHz for PTP mission critical applications across a city? Are you nuts?

Although I live in Triadland and have been accused of not having a grip in reality, everything I talk about has either already been deployed or passed internal testing and is ready for deployment.  Back in the real world, the fact is the government hasn’t assigned enough unlicensed bandwidth to make a big dent in [...]

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