Wi-Fi Everywhere with
Mesh HotZones
Wireless mesh was the breakthrough advance needed to make the community-wide Wi-Fi HotZone practical and affordable. With ubiquitous Wi-Fi, the “digital divide” disappears. City workers have constant
access, whether in their offices or out serving constituents. Public safety agencies benefit from interoperable multimedia (voice/video/data) communications for first responders. The Wi-Fi mesh can even be used for video surveillance, automatically reading utility or parking meters, monitoring facilities and infrastructure, providing disaster recovery services, and more.
A wireless mesh is a self-forming, self-
healing network that installs quickly and easily, and requires minimal ongoing
management. The mesh topology automatically creates multiple wireless paths, allowing the network to overcome obstacles, expand readily into new territory and deliver mission-critical reliability.
Prior to the advent of wireless mesh networking, HotSpots had to be hard-wired to the Internet. The expense of digging trenches or paying high monthly fees for leased line services made it difficult or impossible for most service providers or municipal governments to cost-justify
the investment. But with no dependency on backhaul wiring, along with dramatic
improvements in wireless price/performance, deploying Wi-Fi everywhere is now so affordable, that some communities are able to offer access for free.
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