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Charles N Wyble wrote: > > > Peter Benjamin wrote: >> Interesting thread and I keep hoping someone more knowledgeable >> will post, perhaps just the URLs, of how neighborhood wifi has >> been set up in cities already using MESH and similar technology. > > > Funny you should mention that :) > > Eweek ran an article in last issue about a few projects. Including one > in Riverside: > > http://www.eweek.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=214867,00.asp > >> There appears to be a need to recognize the many existing and >> nearing maturity software that enables free wifi, including >> bandwidth improvements. To think the city's firm doing the >> feasibility study would recommend writing software, expensive >> at that, even if done for free, when that wheel is already >> invented, and working in dozens of cities, if not hundreds >> throughout the world, and has been for years, I do not feel >> the firm will even think of that approach. This firm is going >> to get someone to supply something out of the can, turnkey, >> that the city can go with, sooner, not later. IMO. > > Doing a search for southern california municipal wireless http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=TBE&q=%22southern+california%22+municipal+wireless&btnG=Search yields some interesting results. A company called Tropos http://www.tropos.com/ seems to have a big track record in the area of muni wifi deployments. Interesting stuff. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG+U2nkQPZV56XDBMRAukuAJ0bLBCPw0R0Otq1e36xrKCFfWFEhQCdH45J 07VLcB24K8EqzLy5Mo/9BjI= =tA/S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
