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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Urbana Group Gets $200,000 Community Wireless Grant
They started with Pringles cans and moved to ruggedized containers, but a $200,000 grant should let them expand further: In this Illinois college town from whence Mosaic sprung 11 years ago, two community wireless networkers have received a $200,000 grant from George Soros's Open Society Institute to try to affordably build out downtown Urbana. The Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network has built their own hardware (using Soekris boxes, a commodity platform for community wireless groups) and their own mesh routing software. You can read about the specifics on their site. The software is open source under the BSD license. As with many of the newer or renewed community wireless groups, having an off-the-main-grid local network is part of their goal, which was a concept originally articulated by the folks at Seattle Wireless....
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10:00:17 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Tomorrow's Wireless Tech Radio Schedule
Wireless Tech Radio is on the air tomorrow at 10 a.m. Eastern, 7 a.m. Pacific, 3 p.m. Zulu (GMT): Tomorrow's show has Steve Stroh on the latest industry news; Matt Larsen discussing bandwidth management; Tim Nash of Purple Patch Wireless (Scotland) with the European view. The show is archived following each weekly broadcast....
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12:56:19 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
BellSouth Tests Fixed Wireless as DSL Extender
BellSouth is starting a new trial of broadband wireless in Palatka, Florida: The company is still leveraging its expensive wire base, but it's conducted ongoing tests of broadband fixed wireless as a way to reach customers beyond the range of DSL....
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12:56:18 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Sun Shines on Hotspots
Sun Microsystems is going Wi-Fi with a Pronto-powered hotspot appliance for mid-tier network operators.
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10:15:57 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Wireless Internet Radio Program Wirelessly Connected
Wireless Tech Radio uses its wireless broadband connection to beam its show out over the Internet each week: I was a guest recently, and it's a pleasure to be interviewed by a host of hosts (three folks) who are technically and wirelessly savvy. The show is broadcast live each Wednesday and archived online. Our plan at Wi-Fi Networking News is to provide their schedule in advance each week so you can plan your listening. Wireless radio sounds like an oxymoron, but not in this case....
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8:48:37 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Hughes Launches Direcway Wi-Fi Access over Satellite
Direcway Wi-Fi Access is now formally available as a broadband backhaul to businesses for which wireline broadband is too expensive or unavailable: Hughes originally launched its satellite service targeted at RV parks, which are typically full of people who want access and outside of metropolitan wire networks. Pricing isn't mentioned. The press release has a whopper, claiming that Wi-Fi hotspots in the U.S. will generate $9 billion in revenue in 2004. Maybe by 2009 -- at which point Wi-Fi and cellular revenue will be hopelessly intermingled. The most recent analyst estimates put U.S. 2004 Wi-Fi revenue at under $100 million, optimistically....
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7:11:34 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
T-Mobile Invests in BelAir Networks
Can you say "wireless mesh backhaul"?: T-Mobile's venture arm has invested $2 million in BelAir, but does this signal an interest in deploying BelAir's equipment to provide wireless mesh backhaul for the 4,200 hotspots in the T-Mobile HotSpot network? According to many sources over the last few years, MobileStar and then T-Mobile committee to a T-1 infrastructure for Starbucks, paying all the costs. Switching to wireless backhaul has the potential to dramatically reduce recurring costs if there are enough Starbucks stores reachable by point-to-point signals. In related news, T-Mobile adds another logo to their hotspot model. The network is now officially Cisco Powered, as opposed to before when it was just Cisco "powered." There's a co-marketing benefit from this, but no practical change. It's more of a boon for Cisco which can try out Wi-Fi authentication experiments in the real world....
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6:55:08 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
On the Heels of Cerritos, Spokane Unwires
Eastern Washington's "capital," Spokane, unwires 100 city blocks: Yesterday, we reported that the nine square miles of Cerritos, Calif., will be wirelessly enabled through Tropos Networks' mesh gear. Today, Spokane 100 city blocks in the central core are slated to get Wi-Fi'd with Vivato's switch and bridge. Spokane has a population of 190,000. It doesn't mention for-fee services, focusing instead on public safety and free public access. The project involves several private and public partners....
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6:44:37 AM
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