Scottish county chooses wireless as low-cost alternative
February 21, 2008 at 5:57 PM by Carol Ellison
Twenty five communities in the Scottish county of Renfrewshire have gone wireless in an effort to promote online learning and e-commerce over residential high speed broadband.
The Renfrewshire Council decided to deploy a wireless mesh after determining it could be built for about one-tenth the cost of the hard-wired broadband solution that was original planned. The network, which is known as the Digital Inclusion Project, was designed to cover about five square kilometers.
Proxim Wirless and CSX, the Proxim integrator that won the contract, announced…
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