MuniWireless

BelAir Networks is the leading provider of mobile broadband mesh networking solutions. Cities across the globe (including Minneapolis, Toronto, Canada and City of London, UK) rely on BelAir to deliver industry-leading broadband performance and scalability and carrier-class capacity and reliability. The company teams with world-class partners (including Siemens, Lucent and Fujitsu) to deploy proven, cost-effective wireless broadband mesh networks.

BelAir innovation has driven a number of industry firsts including:

Tropos Networks is revolutionizing mobile Internet access, with a mission to enable broadband access anytime, anywhere and with any device. With more than 500 customers worldwide today, we are recognized as the leader in delivery of ubiquitous, metro-scale Wi-Fi picocell mesh network systems, and tomorrow we will add WiMAX and other radio technologies to offer a truly radio-agnostic picocell solution. Our unique systems are used to improve public safety, increase government efficiencies, and to provide citizens and businesses with ubiquitous…

SkyPilot Networks is a leading provider of carrier-class wireless broadband systems that enable service providers to easily deploy cost-effective last-mile IP-based services, community Wi-Fi HotZones and public safety networks. The SkyPilot solution offers quick time-to-revenue and a compelling return-on-investment by extending reach, routing around obstacles, and increasing deployment flexibility, thereby dramatically reducing equipment and operating costs. The SkyPilot products provide a highly scalable and reliable wireless mesh network with a choice of subscriber access options. SkyPilot Networks is a privately…

RoamAD supplies the industry’s most flexible, functional and upgradeable converged wireless networks. RoamAD networks are scalable and, with fast hand-off and low latency attributes, are optimized to support mobile VoIP/VoWiFi as well as mobile broadband data access.

RoamAD has proven experience in the metro Wi-Fi market and is the leader in support for high-speed mobile VoIP/VoWiFi. The world’s first metro Wi-Fi network was deployed by RoamAD in Auckland, New Zealand, and the world’s first highway Wi-Fi corridor was deployed utilizing RoamAD’s…

Civitium is the market-leading consulting firm for municipal governments and institutions who are applying wireless technology as the foundation for Digital Communities. The firm serves as the trusted advisor on matters of strategy, policy, technology and communications planning for Philadelphia, Houston, San Francisco, Vancouver, Johannesburg and many others.

Civitium was founded by Greg Richardson (Managing Partner). Greg previously served as the wireless consulting director for Siemens in the US, where he lead the pioneering wireless broadband business and technology study…

Cities worldwide are building Wi-Fi municipal wireless networks. Whether the goal is to provide Internet access for its citizens or to enhance city services by adding wireless capability, the important issue is always cost-benefit analysis. How do cities maximize their wireless infrastructure investment? Obviously network planners have to find applications to either:

We describe in the following scenarios where wireless technology can…