Got this note yesterday from a Temple University student:
Please help me with my dissertation research!
My research focuses on the role wireless signal sharing, or mesh networking, can play in efforts to shrink the digital divide. I am exploring the issue from the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, including regulatory agencies, telecommunication companies, and community wireless [...]
Ruckus Wireless announced this week their MediaFlex 7000 series, a commercial 802.11n system developed for operators wishing to wirelessly distribute multiple streams of high-definition (HD) IPTV content inside homes.
Ruckus says the MediaFlex 7000 line helps carriers eliminate costly and cumbersome cabling within subscriber homes, speeding installation times, and enabling remote management. The MediaFlex 7811 [...]
iProvo is the name of the Fiber to the Home service owned and operated by the city of Provo, Utah. It is the largest municipally-owned Fiber to the Home network in the United States. The iProvo RFP [pdf], was issued on April 18, 2007.
Meanwhile, the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA), a consortium of [...]
The Bell operating company — formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC), now AT&T — knows a thing or two about political pressure. The San Antonio, Texas, corporation got the Bush administration to approve their purchase of the former AT&T Corporation, clear 90 MHz of AWS spectrum for their 3G service, and got approval for [...]
Engineers from Motorola and Philips, lugged their laptops, antennas and other equipment to parks, homes and high-rises around the Washington area, testing their “white space” gear, reports the Washington Post.
They’re hoping to prove to prove that the unlicensed airwaves between television stations, (”white spaces”), can work without interference to television stations.
Using white spaces “will [...]
The $250 CherryPal C-100, new “green” PC, consumes only 2 watts of power, compared with the 100 watts of some desktops. It is designed for “cloud computing“.
For software, the device ships with the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Apple iTunes, a CherryPal-branded media player and instant messaging client. The computer’s OS, open source Debian Linux, is inaccessible [...]
Cities have gone wireless for Safety and Surveillance, observes NPR. Cities are mapping out vast wireless zones to create safety nets, says National Public Radio’s Joshua Brockman. Public internet access has nothing to do with it.
Oklahoma City rolled out a municipal network covering 555-square-miles last month. It links hundreds of video surveillance cameras across [...]
Comstar UTS, the leading integrated telecommunications operator in Russia and the CIS, today announced that it has selected Nortel equipment to develop the first mobile WiMAX network in Moscow. Some 160 base stations are expected to be built in Moscow by the end of 2008 with the overall investments in the project are expected to [...]
Oregon’s Westside Express Service (WES) will provide Wi-Fi for regional Commuter Rail, according to John Fall, Communications Coordinator for TriMet Community Affairs in Portland.
The $117.3 million commuter rail system will begin running in October or November, connecting the Beaverton Transit Center, on the West side of Portland with five commuter rail stations along [...]
Morgan: [scoffs] That’s wishful thinking if ever I heard it.
Julian Osborne: I’m not against wishful thinking. Not now.
– On the Beach
A new municipal wireless network now serves citizens and visitors of the Gangneung City and Gyeongpo Beach areas, the second largest tourist beach in Korea.
Deployed by Korea’s largest service provider, KT Corporation, the “Gangneung [...]
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