Hey Steve, On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Steve Fletty wrote:
Do any of you face issues with dealing with municipal wireless initiatives impinging on your air space? The University of Minnesota has a large footprint in in Minneapolis and St. Paul. The city of Minneapolis is deploying a mesh solution which will eventually be bumping up against our borders.
Similar story here in Madison WI, except it's been about a year.
Is anyone else dealing with a situation like this? I'm just wondering what issues people may have run into and what cooperative iniatives or problems you may have run into.
The first thing we did was to arrange a meeting with the vendor that was hired. From them we got their basic architecture and deployment plans. We were quite concerned about overlapping interference (like you probably are), and we were especially concerned about near the stadium where we do wireless handheld ticket taking. They had no real interest in cooperating except if we were to "partner" (read: pay). They didn't understand "peering". We didn't understand how they were going to compete with the free networks that permeate our downtown (ours, coffee shops, etc). Anyway, now they are probably on the road to bankruptcy, and we never saw any substantual interference because they have so few customers and such bad coverage. It's hard to run a business in 2.4GHz. http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=6346 Dale ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
