Illinois' second largest city welcomes municipal Wi-Fi network 

BY DOUG MOHNEY

SkyPilot Networks and MetroFi have been retained to build a metro-scale Wi-Fi network for Aurora, Ill., the second-largest city in the state. The mixed-use...

Rio Rancho offers free access to Wi-Fi system 

BY DOUG MOHNEY

Residents of Rio Rancho, N.M., will be able to access the citywide Wi-Fi network for free after the city council voted to change the terms of its agreement...

Municipal Wi-Fi to cover 126,000 square miles by 2010 

BY DOUG MOHNEY

An ABIReseach report said that by 2010, municipal Wi-Fi networks will cover 126,000 square miles internationally most of which will be in the North American...

Padcom lands contract with Ohio public-safety network 

BY DOUG MOHNEY

Mobile virtual private network software vendor Padcom announced that Ohio MARCS (multi-agency radio communications system) has selected the company's...

Qualcomm, Atheros form partnership 

BY DONNY JACKSON

The interoperability of their chipsets allows for cellular/Wi-Fi solution Atheros Communications and CDMA giant Qualcomm recently demonstrated interoperability...

Tropos in deal to deliver metro-scale Wi-Fi across Europe 

Mesh network system developer Tropos Networks announced that it has entered into an agreement with hotspot provider The Cloud which maintains about 6000...

IBM claims chipset boosts transmission speeds tenfold 

IBM recently announced the development of a small, low-cost Wi-Fi chipset based on its silicon germanium technology the that company said would allow...

NEW ORLEANS TO EXPAND WI-FI NETWORK 

Glenn Bischoff

New Orleans plans to expand its Wi-Fi network after seeing how well it performed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. According to Chris Drake, operations...

Milwaukee chooses Midwest Fiber for Wi-Fi deal 

BY JAMES CARELESS

Milwaukee Common Council members voted 14-1 to approve a $20 million deal with Midwest Fiber Networks to build and maintain a citywide, high-speed wireless...

IEEE supports next-gen Wi-Fi proposal 

BY JAMES CARELESS

As expected, an IEEE task force unanimously voted in favor of the 802.11n draft standard offered by a joint-proposal team led by the Enhanced Wireless...

College already is tough enough 

BY GLENN BISCHOFF

About a year ago, Northern Michigan University in Marquette found itself in a predicament that one intuitively might think would be much more likely to...

Consortium changes 802.11n landscape again 

The Enhanced Wireless Consortium, a splinter group in the ongoing battle to establish a next-gen 802.11 standard, said it now includes 27 Wi-Fi industry leaders...

EarthLink, Google propose citywide Wi-Fi deployments 

Internet search engine company Google said it has made a proposal to provide free wireless Internet access via a wireless mesh network throughout the city of San Francisco...

Technology cuts Wi-Fi interference 

By Lynnette Luna

MIMO-like solution improves 802.11a/b/g product performance...

Michigan cities create Wi-Fi zone 

Kentwood and Grand Rapids, Mich., together have launched HotSpots/CoolCity, a wireless broadband demonstration network provided by Vivato and Pronto Networks....

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