MuniWireless

Winncom Technologies, a value- added distributor of wireless equipment, has a new distribution agreement with Wavion Wireless Networks for North American customers. Wavion makes Wi-Fi base stations that use spatially adaptive beam-forming technology. Read the full announcement here.

According to Wavion, the WBS-2400 and WBS-5800 Wi-Fi Base Stations, which utilize digital beam-forming and Space Division Multiple Access (SDMA) technology, allow service providers, communities, and enterprises to provide coverage for two to three times larger area than conventional access points.

For a limited time, Winncom…

I am attending the Supernova Conference in San Francisco where the theme is “Change Networks” or how pervasive connectivity has changed how we relate to one another. We usually think of pervasive connectivity in the online context, but how does pervasive connectivity alter physical space, in particular, cities and the human experience the city? That was the subject of an intriguing talk entitled “Public Objects — Connected Things and Civic Responsibilities in the Networked City” by Adam Greenfield (Nokia).

Greenfield began…

The Minneapolis network is “on track”–so much so that officials there are inviting neighboring communities to join it. With so much negative publicity about muni-WiFi generated by the AP’s recent erroneous report, it is nice to see news like this coming in.The Minneapolis network is “on track”–so much so that officials there are inviting neighboring communities to join it. With so much negative publicity about muni-WiFi generated by the Associated Press’s recent erroneous report, it’s nice to see news like…

The city of North Newton, in south central Kansas, is negotiating with a local company to build a city-wide wireless network which, according to The Wichita Eagle, would be the first in the state.The city of North Newton, in south central Kansas, is negotiating with a local company to build a city-wide wireless network which, according to The Wichita Eagle, would be the first in the state.

Negotiations between the city and Community Wireless Communications were expected to begin this week.…

Informational meetings begin next week to update Minneapolis neighborhoods on the progress of the city’s city-wide wireless network and to train citizens to create the regional portal pages.As part of its 10-year contract with the city of Minneapolis to build and manage the city-wide wireless network, the service proficer US Internet agreed to a set of negotiated community benefits that include the creation of neighborhood and community portal pages for the network.

Those meetings, timed for approximately the same time as…

The city of Toledo set the record straight Thursday after The Toledo Blade misleadingly reported that “Toledo taxpayers could pay up to $2.16 million over five years” if the city council approves a license contract with MetroFi and a city councilman jumped on the story to make political hay.