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Municipal wirelesss networks have gotten a bad reputation over the last few years due to difficult deployments, under-engineering, over-promised expectations, high-capital expenditure, and high-profile failures. The reality is that most mesh vendors have abandoned the original utopian idea of wireless everywhere. In fact, due to limited technology designs, they are now re-branding themselves as low-bandwidth [...]
After seemingly kicking partner Clearwire to the curb a few weeks ago, Sprint Nextel brought its erstwhile 4G partner back into the limo Wednesday, announcing a deal to work with Clearwire on Long Term Evolution (LTE) network implementations in the future. While there are no specifics yet, at the very least Sprint’s public re-embrace of the company [...]
The NTIA has rescinded the $80 million broadband grant given to Louisiana for the deployment of a 900-mile fiber optic network that would have delivered broadband service to the poorest parts of the state, as well as to educational institutions. According to US Senator Mary Landrieu (from Louisiana), the state failed to meet the deadlines [...]
Victorville Water District (California) has upgraded their SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) system and installed Firetide’s HotPort® wireless mesh network for communications between various sites. At present there are 15 sites and the district plans to add 45 more sites. The sites include various wells, booster pump stations, storage tanks, and treatment plants which are now [...]
Today’s story in the New York Times by Joe Sharkey (about how iPads are changing the economics of hotel Wi-Fi) may be news to many, but to me, its not. The crushing of WiFi networks by the influx of iPads and smartphones being used by travelers, road warriors and meeting/conference attendees at hotels is nothing new. Back [...]
Meru Smart Connect Streamlines Secure WLAN Access; System Director 5 WLAN Operating System Powers Industry’s Largest Capacity Wireless Controllers and Access Points Meru Networks has released Smart Connect, a state-of-the-art solution that greatly simplifies WLAN access in Bring-Your-Own Device (BYOD) environments, as well as leading edge enhancements across its wireless LAN platform including a new [...]
The scorecard for the U.S. 4G wireless marketplace got an update Friday, with Verizon reporting 1.4 million new 4G LTE devices were activated during the third fiscal quarter. Though Sprint’s Q3 numbers are not yet official (the company is scheduled to report next week) we can likely extrapolate the 4G numbers for Q3 recently released by WiMAX [...]
Marketwatch reports that Google is looking into deploying a fiber network in Europe. Google has not chosen any specific country nor has it stated why it would be interested in doing so. Google is rolling out a fiber network in Kansas City which they will use to deliver high speed broadband directly to consumers. They [...]
State-owned operator, BSNL, wants to give back its WiMAX licenses to the government because it prefers to deploy LTE networks. It’s unlikely that BSNL will get its money back from the government; however, if it does get out of its obligation to deploy WiMAX, it can avoid having to spend large amounts of money in [...]
The European Commission is proposing to spend close to €9.2 billion from 2014 to 2020 on pan-European projects for high-speed broadband networks and the services that run on them. Below is the full memo from the European Commission. The funding, part of the proposed Connecting Europe Facility (CEF – see IP/11/1200), would take the form [...]
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