City Wide Networks
The number of cities that are building or are planning to build city-wide wireless networks continues to explode. In large cities as well as small towns, more and more municipalities are realizing that wireless broadband access is quickly becoming a core utility for citizens and businesses alike. Bringing a city into the 21st century means providing untethered connectivity for those who live there. It is the new necessity.
These city-wide wireless networks help to underpin a new digital public infrastructure. For example, they are typically also used for public safety and emergency response by police and fire departments. Not only do these networks give cities a competitive edge in attracting new residents and businesses, in many cases, a municipal wireless network can provide an income potential through monetization of public assets such as light poles and other infrastructure.
Technical overview
- OSI layer 2 wireless mesh, auto discovery and dynamic configuration of new network nodes.
- Infrastructure for multiple branded wireless services with diverse security policies.
- Wide range of supported hardware platforms from ordinary PCs up to price-effective wireless SoCs.
- Multiple 802.11 radio modules, including support, for low latency, high bandwidth applications.
- Industry standard WPA2 (AES) protocol providing security for intra-mesh traffic.
- Preservation of 802.1Q and 802.1P tags in intra-mesh transport.
- 802.11e wireless QoS support for services and intra-mesh data transfers.
- Platform-independent graphical mesh monitoring software.
- Remote configuration management system.