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Minneapolis Find It's All about the Utility Poles

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2008-09-24 10:32:01 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...poles add $1m to Wi-Fi network expense: US Internet Wireless couldn't install service in a large remaining area of Minneapolis because the decorative utility poles in the upscale neighborhoods--paid through homeowner assessments--lack the strength to hold the Wi-Fi nodes. Minneapolis has opted to pick up the tab for replacing the 145 poles...
 
Tags: poles, temporary wood poles, decorative utility poles, network, dang poles, minneapolis, city, wi-fi network expense, city cost savings
 
 
 
 
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Long Island Proposal Snags Again, on Poles

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2008-07-28 11:07:26 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...poles to avoid incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) and utilities from being gatekeepers that prevent competitive service from emerging. There are a series of tests in the law and local qualifications, too, that allow a firm to be a registered telecom. An FCC decision last year ruled that companies that mix telecom and unregulated...
 
Tags: telecom act, telecom act deal, telecom, proposal, island proposal, e-path, networks, represents e-path, municipal networks
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Post: Utility Poles and Backhaul

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2008-04-04 13:01:02 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
You can't ignore physical realities: Much as we might not like it, the hard work of attaching devices to utility poles and bringing in backhaul to cell and Wi-Fi sites can't just be handled by waving your hands around. Photo by Chris Chan
 
Tags: utility poles, ignore physical realities, wi-fi sites, chris chan, backhaul, photo, hands, devices, cell
 
 
 
 
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Minneapolis Gets a Workout

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2008-03-29 17:19:55 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...poles (it's always about the poles). USIW plans to install some of its own poles to fill in those areas Nearby, Steve Alexander notes a pioneering wireless network at the University of Minnesota has become obsolete. The U of M is replacing its 7-year-old 802.11b network with an 802.11n system . As is true in most older networks, they've got a...
 
Tags: network, network indoors, minneapolis, wireless network, poles, problematic utility poles, 11b network, networks, wi-fi networks
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Phila., Minneapolis, St. Louis Park (Minn.), Texas, Foster City (Calif.), Naperville (Ill.), Chehalis and Centralia (Wash.), Cambria C

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2008-06-11 14:33:41 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...poles erected to hold the nodes and solar-charging gear--sunk into concrete. More recent testing showed that the network worked well in some areas, but the majority of the network did not, according to the Star Tribune Verizon builds out fiber in AT&T territory: Interesting sign of competition in otherwise monopoly-per-provider-type world....
 
Tags: city, big-city network, residents oppose wi-fi, wi-fi, mount wi-fi radios, wi-fi hotzones, wi-fi network, network, network hardware
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: St. Louis, Minneapolis, Tempe

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2008-04-12 21:15:38 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...poles--by building just a square mile out with nodes placd on traffic lights. The lack of power is rather difficult to overcome, and traffic lights are spaced too sparsely to replicate this deployment city-wide. AT&T is offering free, ad-supported 512 Kbps service and paid 1 Mbps. This seems rather paltry given the 72 access points that the...
 
Tags: city, city-wide wi-fi network, network, deployment city-wide, city official, downtown wi-fi network, cancel, cancel gobility, gobility
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Mesh in Devices, Florida-Fi, Minneapolis-Fi, LA No-Fi, Harbor-Fi, Parade-Fi

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2008-04-28 13:09:58 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...poles. 802.11s mesh should allow end-point devices to form their own loose associations, which could improve throughput and range across parts of a network. Latency increases when you have a mesh network, because devices require more hops to reach a gateway, but depending on how smart meshes are about tokens and limiting power, they can...
 
Tags: free wi-fi, offers free wi-fi, free wi-fi float, parade, reporter steve alexander, unleash free wi-fi, alexander, mesh network, operator
 
 
 
 
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Can Azulstar Make WiMax Work without Buying Spectrum?

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2008-05-09 10:58:59 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...poles. Azulstar now has to remove all its devices All of this might make the typical company head a bit depressed about his firm's future, and less than sanguine about the potential for wireless broadband to work at all. Not so for Tyler van Houwelingen, Azulstar's chief, and I have to admit that he convinced me that the wireless provider has...
 
Tags: azulstar, city-wide wi-fi, wi-fi, rio rancho voted, metro-scale wi-fi networks, rio rancho, forward, weeks ago, firm
 
 
 
 
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EarthLink Will Shutter Philadelphia Network, Company Says

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2008-05-13 09:48:07 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...poles starting 12-June-2008. The company's press release said it offered to give the network at no cost to an unnamed non-profit, as well as to the city, but claimed that "unresolved issues" led to the effort falling apart. EarthLink offered cash and more equipment, as well, in undisclosed quantities. Wireless Philadelphia, the non-profit in...
 
Tags: network, wi-fi, philadelphia wi-fi network, earthlink, network provider, philadelphia, public access network, company, earthlink filed
 
 
 
 
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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
...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 muni-Fi: An op-ed by Brian Worobey of...
 
Tags: metrofi, metrofi plans, notes, mike rogoway notes, network, network exception, city, skypilot nodes, skypilot