Tag: Deployment

If you think setting up a wireless network is difficult in your living room, try the Antarctic. For the last seven years scientists in Antarctica have been setting up access points and repeaters in sub-zero temperatures and 80 mile per hour winds. To the hundreds of scientists stationed there, wireless gives a big morale boost...

Canary Wharf is to become Europe's largest wireless internet-enabled business district, with employees able to connect to the web in office reception areas, parks and shops. Via [vnunet.com]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom got nationwide publicity last year by marrying gay couples in City Hall, but now he's launching a crusade he regards as even more controversial: building a high-speed wireless Internet system offering low-cost service to residents. Via [seattletimes.nwsource.com]

New mesh-networking software from PacketHop lets police and first responders use their mobile devices to set up wireless networks that don't require Wi-Fi access points or routers. Via [informationweek.com]

Visitors to any of the 39 rest areas available along the Iowa Interstate highway system can now use their 802.11-based devices to access the Web for free. The hotspots, which are also found at eight welcome centers and two shopping malls, were deployed by Des Moines-based I Spot Networks. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

The city is kicking off pre-Wimax for city services later this month, an effort designed to improve employee productivity. Via [informationweek.com]

Mobile workers in Docklands will soon be able to get high-speed wireless access from the bars and shops surrounding the UK's highest buildings. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

NZX-listed transport company Toll New Zealand has begun using wireless handheld computers connected by WiFi access points to check-in passengers on its Interislander ferries, a move that it says could halve loading times. Via [stuff.co.nz]

WiMax is in the air this week, as Airspan Networks today announced the $5 million expansion of an agreement with Yozan for WiMax deployment in Tokyo. Via [reed-electronics.com]

While lawmakers in some parts of the country are fighting to ban free wireless broadband access, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is looking at it as a potential tool for fixing community problems. Via [informationweek.com]

The city of San Francisco wants ideas for making the entire 49-square mile city a free -- or at least cheap -- Wi-Fi zone. Via [businessweek.com]

A year after launching a roughly $8-a-day wireless Internet service, Boston's Logan International Airport is facing growing complaints that it's trying to impose a ''WiFi monopoly" at the airport. Via [boston.com]

Boeing's Connexion and Airbus' OnAir this week both announced partnerships with mobile phone specialists to pave the way for in-flight GSM and CDMA device usage. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Intel is throwing its financial, technical and lobbying weight behind the rising tide of municipally run broadband wireless networks, seeing these as a way to stimulate uptake of Wi-Fi and WiMAX and so sell more of its chips and increase its influence over the communications world. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Things have suddenly gotten very busy at Lumin Innovative Products in Boulder, Colorado. On July 15th, 18 months after the company formed around co-founder Ben Adams’s concept for solar-powered Wi-Fi networks, Lumin deployed its first access points at the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. Since that successful launch, the four-person staff has been deluged with...