BelAir Networks, a provider of wide-area Wi-Fi solutions, announced today that its family of carrier-grade wireless switch routers is now available through Lucent Technologies.
Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) and BelAir plan to pursue joint business opportunities by making BelAir100 and BelAir200 Wireless Switch Routers available through Lucent’s global sales channels. Lucent Worldwide Services will also enhance BelAir’s offer by providing a full suite of services including deployment, maintenance, professional and managed services.
The BelAir200 is a four-radio, wireless switch router which uses the 2.4 GHz band to support Wi-Fi client access. Separate 5 GHz backhaul radio modules create the point-to-point links that form the wireless backhaul mesh.
The BelAir100 is a two-radio wireless switch router that accepts the same radio modules as the BelAir200. It can be used to terminate a BelAir mesh, as a mesh edge.
Deployed in less than three weeks, the St. Maarten network is the first joint project between the two companies. The Wi-Fi network, built on BelAir200 units, covers the downtown area in Philipsburg, the Dutch capital of the Caribbean island, provides wireless Internet to island residents and the more than 2 million tourists.
Seven BelAir200 Wireless Switch Routers have been deployed by the University of Georgia, in their Mobile Media Consortium (MMC) to upgrade the University s acclaimed outdoor WLAN.
The WAGZone (Wireless Athens Georgia Zone) uses seven BelAir200 units to form a wireless network throughout 24 blocks of downtown Athens.
The Wireless Athens Project, one of the first “city clouds”, is also one of the best. That’s because students at the University of Georgia are developing innovative software applications.
Recent Mobile Applications developed by the students include:
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NMIX 4510 MOBILE MEDIA SCHOLARS with Dr. Scott Shamp
- Byte Sized Learning — Nicole Batten, Brian Spett
PDA education system for big classes -
iPreg — Jason Lynes, Lindsay Wagner
A way for teen-mothers-to-be to use mobile media to have healthier babies - Mobile Media Bus Tour — Neil Caron, Travis McCutcheon
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VisiTour/MoniTour (location-based tours) — Patricia Marsh, Bill O’Dell, Jen Sipin
A tour of Athens that uses WiFi signals to determine where you areNMIX 4510 CAPSTONE with Tom Cona and Clate Sanders
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Brewfest Trade Show – J.D. Whitlock, Kelsie Van Deman, Ryan Floyd
A handheld system that made a beer convention even more lively -
Hockey Arena – Sean Couch, Lindsay Swymer, Matt Coleman
Use while you’re watching a hockey game – information about the arena, rules of the game, and view stats
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Museum Tour — Jocelyn Steinberg, Brian Rehn, Lara Adair
A PDA to help museum visitors get the most out of their art experience -
Music History Tour — Jonathan Lawhon, Angie Wedekind, Dara McCarney
A mobile system to guide you through Athen’s rich and legendary music scene -
North Campus Walking Tour – Heather Harper, Dawn Miller, Douglas Borenstein
Mobile media enriching the tour of the most beautiful campus in America -
PDA Radio — Rory Partalis, James Hobson, Eric Rutland
A system that streams Athens music to people while they walk around Athens -
Twilight Criterium Companion – Michael Coplin, Jessica Duncan, Diane Latham, Bobby Ordon
Access schedule and map information, stats about teams and individual racers, and get real-time race updates
A couple of good mikes ($50/each) and a Behringer UB802 Mixer ($49) might produce studio-quality recordings for oral history.
Podcasting Gear bundles a professional USB-powered Edirol UA-25 audio mixer with Sound Forge software. Of course a $100 MP-3 recorder with free Audacity software might work just as well.
Microsoft’s Photostory can also be used to create Ken Burn’s-like photostories that playback on PocketPCs or Microsoft’s Smartphone (using WM-10). It makes production a snap. Lost and Found Sounds and Transom have inspiration.
TomeRaider (how to article), is a cross-platform reference and e-book reader (not a video game), that can be used to develop handheld encyclopedic databases. Flash Chat is a free chat module that can be used on Pocket PCs for sending and receiving messages on-the-go. Winksite lets you set-up a free mobile site that’s available worldwide on a web-enabled phone, PDA or desktop PC with chat, blog, mobile feed reader, surveys, journal, forum, calendar, guestbook, bookmarks, email and more.
Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of leading international news sources (below). Then it performs a weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in the top news stories.
Cities with WiFi “clouds” like Wireless Athens are in the driver’s seat.
Splash localized news, business, history, entertainment, messaging, games and human interest stories around your town this spring. If it’s okay with Verizon.
