Wireless applications, citywide WiFi, smartphones
This is Chapter 8 of Rory Conaway’s series, “Tales From The Towers”, about setting up a large scale Wi-Fi network. If you have not yet done so, read Chapter 7: One Size Does Not Fit All. Our network is pretty inexpensive but it suffers from first generation bandwidth problems of losing 50 percent of the [...]
US Internet has set up 117 Wi-Fi hotspots around the city of Minneapolis, as part of its contract with the city. Many of the hotspots are in public parks and other locations. US Internet has deployed the largest citywide Wi-Fi network in the United States, and Minneapolis is paying $1.25 million per year for 10 [...]
In this installment of Rory Conaway’s “Tales From The Towers”, he discusses the different types of antennas that can be used for large scale Wi-Fi networks. Before we continue developing the system further, it’s a good idea to discuss all the various antenna designs that go into a municipal design process. I’ve described one type [...]
Wi-Fi on public transport is such a hot topic these days and there isn’t a railway operator in the world that is not deploying or actively looking into installing Wi-Fi on their trains. Now, Railcorp, a state-owned enterprise in Australia that runs the passenger rail service covering Sydney, its suburbs, the Central Coast, Hunter, the [...]
The New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority has issued a public tender to install Wi-Fi in commuter trains. Cablevision is bidding aggressively for the project because they can give free Wi-Fi access to their customers, thereby reducing churn and at the same time, enticing others to subscribe to their cable service. Non-Cablevision subscribers will have [...]
Our system is installed and our credit card maxed out. Now, we have to either pay for it or figure out how it’s going to save what we invested in it. As an income based system, it’s pretty easy to figure out a direct correlation between expenses and revenue. If there is some kind of [...]
The Atlantic is running a series called The Future of the City and one of the articles is about the Minneapolis muni WiFi network owned and managed by US Internet. The article is an interview with Minneapolis city CIO, Lynn Willenbring, who explains why the city decided on the anchor tenant model (US Internet owns [...]
Sunrise Wireless has deployed a Wi-Fi network across the San Francisco Bay making it the largest marine broadband network in the United States. Passengers on ferries that regularly cross the Bay can now get Wi-Fi access on their laptops and portable devices. Initially Wi-Fi service will be free of charge. Sunrise has deployed a network [...]
US Internet, the service provider that runs the Minneapolis citywide Wi-Fi network, has been chosen by Riverside to take over AT&T’s network in the city. AT&T had turned over the network to Riverside at no cost. The city sought a replacement for AT&T via a public tender, and choose US Internet. The city is paying [...]
Gahanna, Ohio is the latest Ohio community to get large scale Wi-Fi coverage, thanks to a local ISP called HighSpeedAir. The service is open to residents, businesses and government employees of Gahanna. Part of the city’s Broadband Initiative, the primary goals of this system are to enhance public safety and improve the city’s operational efficiencies, while also offering [...]
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