ClearMesh Wins Product of the Year Award
ClearMesh Networks announced today that Internet Telephony magazine has named the ClearMesh Metro Grid(tm) the recipient of its 2006 Product of the Year Award. The wireless optical mesh architecture of the Metro Grid enables large corporate, medical, education or government campus environments to integrate data, VoIP and surveillance video and other applications demanding large amounts of LAN capacity at every point on a campus.
From BusinessWire, January 09, 2007
Vonage to Resell EarthLink Municipal Wi-Fi
Vonage Network Inc. will buy Internet access from EarthLink at wholesale and resell it under a Vonage-branded service in all the cities where EarthLink offers a municipal Wi-Fi network, Vonage said Monday.
From Infoworld, January 08, 2007
Op-Ed: St. Cloud Stirs Momentum in Florida
Those pluses have drawn the interest of many other cities, including Kissimmee, Winter Springs and Apopka, the latest to announce plans for a citywide system expected to launch within a year.
From Orlando Sentinel, January 07, 2007
Welcome to Wi-Fi-Ville
Corpus Christi's pilot worked so well that it dreamed big, using tax dollars to fund a $7.1 million, 147-sq.-mi. network that went live last month. Now park sunbathers can Web surf and this town of 300,000 is home to one of the largest wireless systems in the world
From Time Magazine, January 05, 2007
EarthLink Statement on San Francisco Deal
This agreement catapults San Francisco into a leadership position in wireless technology: the network ensures universal, affordable wireless broadband access for all San Franciscans, especially low-income and disadvantaged residents; and through the Mayor_s digital divide program, children and students will have the digital tools to ensure that they have access to everything that the Internet has to offer the growing minds of the City's promising future.
From EarthLink.net, January 05, 2007
San Francisco Examiner Editorial
We applaud the mayor for resisting a half-baked municipal plan, but we do wish he'd found a way to open the market to other Wi-Fi providers, which some techies think feasible. Still, if the political alternatives are the Google/Earthlink deal or some Putin-like effort to seize the Wi-Fi industry for the people of San Francisco, residents should not hesitate to press for the former.
From San Franscisco Examiner, January 05, 2007
Locating Pals at MIT, Privately
A new friend-spotting software program will debut on the MIT campus today, allowing people to enjoy the social benefits of sharing their location without showing up on Big Brother's radar screen.
From The Boston Globe, December 13, 2006
Two South Jersey Counties Mull Joint Wi-Fi Plan
"This is coming. It's the next thing. We want to be ahead of it," said Stephen Sweeney, a Gloucester County freeholder and state senator. "We looked at it as an opportunity that would basically put us on the map in New Jersey."
From The Star Ledger, December 13, 2006
Longmont (CO) Completes Citywide Wi-Fi Deployment
Kite Networks, a wireless subsidiary of MobilePro Corp., has completed the initial phase of its Wi-Fi deployment for Longmont, Colorado. The the Wi-Fi mesh network, covering approximately 22 square miles of Longmont, was completed in less than 90 days.
From Government Technlogy, December 12, 2006
Reaction to Report: Survey May Not be Impartial
A new report "warns that cities considering municipal WiFi shouldn't fool themselves into believing that the experience will be as routine as running water, gas and electricity systems." The report should come with a Thatcher Warning; it's not ideologically neutral.
From The Register, December 10, 2006
