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Dead, Dead, Dead: Cities Accept Muni-Fi's Absence

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2008-04-20 12:54:28 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...cities didn't spend taxpayer dollars." Of course, as I've noted before, the idea with a wireless network should be to both conserve expenses and reduce them. "Taxpayer dollars" is a shibboleth of those who believe government can solve no ills. Those who believe that are typically also fine with government overspending by paying large...
 
Tags: wi-fi network, city-wide wi-fi network, city, oklahoma city, dollars, city manager, taxpayer dollars, reporter notes, balloon wood frames
 
 
 
 
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Interop NY 2008 Hot Stage: A Tale of Two Cities

2008-07-21 22:01:04 by Louis DiMeglio in ScienceLogic
 
...cities is the amount of time that the InteropNet team gets to produce a live, fully operational and redundant network. In Las Vegas, this was nearly a full week of time - a tight timeframe across 17 different vendors, but now were looking back at that timeframe as a luxury. In NY, well be getting started Saturday morning, and the network...
 
Tags: network, redundant network, network gear, gear, network elements, hot stage, las vegas, vegas, interopnet team
 
 
 
 
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MetroFi Plans Market Exit: Sale or Shutter

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2008-05-15 21:47:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...cities, including their first cities in the Bay Area (Cupertino, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale), and their largest muni deployment in Portland, Ore. If no buyers emerge--including the cities in question--Haas said that MetroFi would have a shutdown plan for gradually unlighting the networks MetroFi was one of the three most prominent pure play...
 
Tags: metro-scale wi-fi, wi-fi, large-city wi-fi network, wi-fi providers, wi-fi network, york wi-fi plan, city, city dollars, super-fast wi-fi network
 
 
 
 
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Skyhook Expands Wi-Fi Positioning to Cell, GPS

2008-06-30 10:25:33 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...cities. Their XPS 2.0 system leverages GPS with the advantages of Skyhook's Wi-Fi signal database and algorithms along with cell-tower triangulation Ted Morgan, the head of Skyhook, explained in an interview that while GPS is certainly the gold standard, and while it works well in stand-alone devices designed for continuous use and...
 
Tags: gps, wi-fi, a-gps, stand-alone gps gear, gps system grab, skyhook, gps-only device, gps chips, gps radios
 
 
 
 
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Hacking Power Networks

2008-01-22 14:24:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cities. We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet According to Mr. Donahue, the CIA actively and thoroughly considered the benefits and risks of making this information public, and came down on the side of disclosure I'll bet. There's nothing like an vague unsubstantiated rumor to...
 
Tags: power, power companies, companies, cia actively, power outages, cia, cia rumor, disrupt power equipment, attacks
 
 
 
 
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Toronto Columnists: City Owned Exclusive Broadband a Good Deal

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2008-03-31 13:50:27 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...cities seem to do best in ensuring that missing pieces of all kinds are provided to those least able to advocate for themselves. This, in my mind, extends to cities providing incentives for supermarkets to be built in disadvantaged areas. (There's always an irony that people least able to afford food must travel the furthest to obtain food at...
 
Tags: city, broadband, city budgets, city departments, city-wide fibrewireless network, broadband options, implement universal broadband, network, broadband firm
 
 
 
 
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InfoSec 2008: Key takeaways from Europe's biggest security event

2008-04-30 08:43:01 by Thomas Raschke in Security & Risk Management
 
...cities (elements Which of these cities (elements) will be biggest and most important almost entirely depends on where you are coming from as a vendor and what your primary differentiator is in the marketplace (nothing new here...). Sure, we will see more unified solutions and suites that contain most established security features. Sure, we...
 
Tags: data security, data, security, data security product, information security, information security event, security professionals, security managers, security folks
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Portland Coverage of MetroFi; Boston's Measured Pace

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2008-05-19 13:10:08 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...cities will purchase the gear on poles because even at bargain-basement prices, the cities would be buying into the engineering assumptions and vendor decisions of firms that decided to exit the business due to a lack of return on investment. Hardly wise OpenAirBoston advisor editorializes that slow and steady is the way to figure out...
 
Tags: metrofi, metrofi plans, notes, mike rogoway notes, network, network exception, city, skypilot nodes, skypilot
 
 
 
 
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Three Essays on Muni-Fi You Should Read

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2008-05-20 12:50:08 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...cities, "Expectation that the network would cover 90-95% of the City with wireless coverage as opposed to just in the areas where there was a solid business case." This has been a problem I've had for a couple of years when it started to become clear that 90-plus percent coverage wasn't in the interest of the ISP--nor in the city's interest...
 
Tags: ocean city, wi-fi, wi-fi service, city, york city, offer free wi-fi, percent, city set, 90-plus percent coverage
 
 
 
 
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Red Light Cameras Don't Work

2008-08-25 12:19:23 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. Those local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light cameras, shorten the yellow light...
 
Tags: red, red-light, red-light runners, install red-light cameras, cameras, red-light cameras, conclude cameras, studies, rigorous studies