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Muni wi-fi working o.k. in OK
2008-06-04 03:15:00 Here's a model that, unlike Portland's failed idea, apparently works. The wi-fi is dedicated to government use, at least for now. There are 1200 nodes, covering 555 square miles, and they cost $5 million.
By: Jack Bog's Blog
Remove Politics and Muni-WiFi Flourishes
2008-06-03 23:27:00 Oklahoma City has just turned up a Muni WiFi network that covers 555SqMi of the city. The downside? It is a closed system not open for public consumption. But even at that the project was funded out of capital infrastructure funds and capital improvement money. The network is to be shared across multiple deptartments. Oklahoma City says it just turned on the largest city owned and operated municipal Wi-Fi mesh network in the world. The wireless mesh network covers 555 square miles with 95% coverage in the citys core, the city said. However, unlike dozens of other municipal Wi-Fi projects, the Oklahoma City network is only available for use by city staff such as police, fire, first responders. The city plans to eventually expand the use of the network to animal welfare, code enforcement and utilities. The network, which took two years to build to the tune of $5 million, was paid for with public-safety capital sales tax and city capital improvement funds. Our state-of-the-art wireles...
By: Third Pipe
EarthLink To Pull Philly's Muni Wi-Fi, Anaheim's Days Numbered
2008-05-14 19:47:00 EarthLink To Pull Philly's Muni Wi-Fi, Anaheim's Days NumberedThe ISP plans to shut down its massive Philadelphia network deployment on June 12, but it's still negotiating its exit with So. Calif. city officials.http://www.informatio-nweek.com...
EarthLink To Pull Philly's Muni Wi-Fi, Anaheim's Days Numbered
2008-05-14 19:34:00 EarthLink To Pull Philly's Muni Wi-Fi, Anaheim's Days NumberedThe ISP plans to shut down its massive Philadelphia network deployment on June 12, while the firm is still negotiating its exit from So. Calif. city officials.http://www.informatio-...
EarthLink To Pull Philly's Muni Wi-Fi, Anaheim's Days Numbed
2008-05-14 18:43:00 EarthLink To Pull Philly's Muni Wi-Fi, Anaheim's Days NumbedThe ISP plans to shut down its massive Philadelphia network deployment on June 12, while the firm is still negotiating its exit from So. Calif. city officials.http://www.informatio-nw...
iProvo muni fiber net privatized. A case study against government run netwo
2008-05-08 16:05:00 iProvo, once touted as a proof of concept for government run networks has gone private. The technically excellent FTTP never managed to grow and was hemorrhaging customers at the end. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that one of Utah’s two struggling municipal fiber networks, iProvo, is going to be sold to Broadweave Networks for $40.6 ...
By: Third Pipe
Elizabeth Hurley Launches “Elizabeth Hurley for MNG” Collection in Muni
2008-04-24 21:31:00 pic Credit : hotcelebshome
NY Muni Wireless Network Launch in...
2008-03-29 11:34:00 NY Muni Wireless Network Launch in Sight New York City's most extensive municipal wireless network is a month away from launch. When it goes live, it will initially connect 70 percent of police and fire operations to new public safety and public service applications via vehicle modems and handheld units. The launch date comes four years since the city awarded Northrop Grumman a five-year $500 million contract to build the New York City Wireless Network (NYCWiN). Officials expect the network to improve public safety by linking first responders with incident managers at remote sites using real-time data and video fees. The network will provide access to federal and state anti-crime and anti-terrorism databases, as well fingerprint files, city maps, mug shorts and streaming video feeds. Currently 53 applications for 19 agencies are in trial deployments. In addition to safety and law enforcement, piloted applications are in use by health and human services division, transportation ...
Muni. Wi-Fi is dead? (and do the test)
2008-03-24 12:26:00 IT Blogwatch – Its IT Blogwatch: in which the future for municipal Wi-Fi looks even bleaker. Not to mention doing the test… Ian Urbina comes up to speed: It was hailed as Internet for the masses when Philadelphia officials announced plans in 2005 to erect the largest municipal Wi-Fi grid in the country, stretching wireless access over 135 square miles with the hope of ... read more
Muni-WiFi player Azulstar shifts gears...
2008-03-21 09:36:00 Muni-WiFi player Azulstar shifts gears to WiMAX Muni-WiFi vendor Azulstar said it plans to upgrade all of its existing muni-WiFi networks with WiMAX. Using equipment from Airspan Networks and Redline Communications, Azulstar will roll out WiMAX across 15 cities in the Midwest and Southwest, including the nation's first muni-WiFi market Grand Haven, Mich., which will be the first market to upgrade. The vendor is using licensed 3.6 GHz spectrum. The WiMAX network is in final stages of testing in Grand Haven and first customers are being connected. The network will overlay the existing unlicensed WiFi mesh networks, which will continue to operate supporting visitors and residential customers as long as there is demand. Legacy WiFi customers wanting to move to WiMAX will receive a discount toward their adapter. Azulstar, which cites WiMAX as having better economics, performance and reliability, said it will continue its strategy of owning and operating municipal wireless ...
[Munich Finances] Die Steuerkanzlei Hopfner in München übernimmt den Muni
2008-03-14 00:00:00 Steuerberater Thomas Hopfner aus M#252;nchen informiert mit aktuellen News und Urteilen aus der Rechtssprechung rund ums Thema Steuern. Kontaktdaten: Steuerkanzlei Hopfner F#252;hrichstra#223;e 39 81671 M#252;nchen Telefon: 089 450 62 ...
By: BlogNews
IRS Changes Muni Bond VCAP Program, Seeks Comments
2008-02-29 00:00:00 The Internal Revenue Service today announced updated procedures related to the Tax Exempt Bond Voluntary Closing Agreement Program (TEB VCAP). The IRS is also soliciting comments from the public on ways the program could be refined and expanded.
Philly Muni Please — Hold the Signal!
2008-02-06 18:50:00 It appears that Philadelpha may be without a Muni Wifi deployment if the rumours hold true. We noted previously that Earthlink failed to show up for a municipal meeting several months ago. The situation seems to be devolving from there – Philadelphia’s CIO said today that he believes there is a 75% chance that EarthLink Inc. will sell or abandon its ambitious citywide Wi-Fi network operation in a year. As a result, the city is already making contingency plans in case that happens. Terry Phillis, who has held the CIO post for the past year, said the city expects to know more within 60 days about what Atlanta-based EarthLink will do regarding its Philadelphia operation. Although a sale of the Wi-Fi network to another private network builder and operator would be preferable to having the city take control of the project, Philadelphia officials want to be prepared for either possibility, Phillis said in an interview today. “We consider [the Wi-Fi network] an asset for...
By: Third Pipe
Denver ?burbs grant contracts to unfunded Muni Wifi provider
2008-01-07 14:42:00 Here’s a great way to do business! Go secure city contract to provide Wifi and use the contracts as security to round up funding. It’s a fair bet that many government contracts have been landed and fulfilled this way in the past, but it’s never been made so public. What are the odds of this ...
By: Third Pipe
San Fran Gets a Second Chance for Muni WiFi
2008-01-06 17:10:00 In a turnaround of sorts, San Fransisco will get a second chance at municipal WiFi. But the second chance is not coming from some first or second tier wireless provider — Meraki. City-wide Wi-Fi might not be a pipe dream for San Francisco residents after all. After successfully rolling out mesh networks in 6 San ...
By: Third Pipe
Suffolk County, Long Island rolls out Muni Wifi trial
2007-11-20 19:03:00 Funny thing about Muni Wifi. So many are declaring it dead. So many cities don’t know and deploy anyway. Many deployments are successful. Quite a feat for a “dead” service or technology. Those working and living near Route 110 - between the Long Island Expressway in Melville and the Long Island Rail Road tracks in Amityville ...
By: Third Pipe
Muni Wifi comes the 3 New York Suburbs via Cablevison
2007-11-12 18:37:00 If your are a cable company looking for a way to compete with new services from the telcos, here’s an idea. Add Wfi to your subscribers service. Better idea: offer it al la carte, and cheap. You could beat up on the telco’s low end DSL service. Customers of Cablevisions Optimum Online service in Peekskill, Pleasantville and Pelham can now connect wirelessly to the Internet while sitting outside at parks, cafes or while waiting for the train. The rollout of free wireless Internet, or WiFi, is part of Cablevisions move to improve service for customers of its high-speed Internet service, said John Trierweiler, senior vice president of product management. (from Business in the Burbs) Kudos to Cablevision for doing something good for business that customers will like, and not nickel and diming them for it.
By: Third Pipe
Miami Beach muni Wifi begins testing
2007-11-05 05:23:00 Once again most of the tech media ignores the success stories. The deployments continue to work where there is a solid business plan. Miami Beach residents, visitors and businesses are one-step closer to receiving free citywide Internet access. IBM recently completed the deployment phase of the WiFi Miami Beach project and recently turned the citywide WiFi network over to the City of Miami Beach to begin acceptance testing. Testing is expected to be completed by mid-November. (from Citydebate)
By: Third Pipe
Top 50 Trends in City Broadband
2007-10-22 21:28:00 You've read the reports: municipal wireless is dead. But how can a dead market be growing 35 percent annually? And why are hundreds of people at the Santa Clara Marriott discussing successful municipal broadband deployments? Check out the Top 50 Trends in Municipal Wireless over on our sister site, MuniWireless.com.
By: The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy?s Next Move
2007-10-19 20:43:00 The VAR Guy will be blogging live from the MuniWireless 2007: Silicon Valley conference, October 21-23 at the Santa Clara Marriott. With any luck, he'll sneak away from the event and catch a few rides at the Great America theme park. When he's not busy hanging out at the conference, he'll be cutting the line for the Top Gun rollercoaster. For the full effect, he prefers to ride the coaster barefoot while screaming in a foreign language. Take a look...
By: The VAR Guy
Unified Communications Coming to iPhone
2007-10-17 20:22:00 The iPhone isn't a business device. The iPhone isn't for business applications. Hogwash. The VAR Guy NEVER believed all of those crazy statements from tech pundits. He has long suspected that Cisco Systems and other companies would find ways to write unified applications for the iPhone. Today, Apple finally bowed to demand and announced a software development kit for the iPhone. The move paves the way for the iPhone to increasingly support business applications.
By: The VAR Guy
802.11n Meets City WiFi
2007-10-11 16:25:00 The next version of WiFi, known as 802.11n, has found a home in the consumer market. But soon, the high-speed WiFi standard will also catch on in the municipal broadband market. A case in point: Tropos Networks and D-Link are partnering to integrate D-Link's 802.11n technology into Tropos' WiFi mesh offerings. The Tropos/D-Link relationship comes at a critical time for the municipal broadband industry.
By: The VAR Guy
DOWNLOAD"MUNI" MOVIE ORGINAL DVD(*ing Larencce, Vedika,)
2007-10-09 09:23:00 Muni Movie ReviewMuni - A hattrick hit of Ragava Larencce Review: 3/5 (Average)Cast: Lawrence.R , Vedhika , Ms Bhaskar.......Wielding a megaphone has become common these days with several technicians turning directors. However, going step by step above the ladder is important. Giving a hit in the debut film and proving a dud in the very next film is the common practice for several of these technicians and Ragava Larencce is an exception to it.He utilized the first opportunity and showed the best of his abilities in 'Mass' and gave a big hit to Nagarjuna. In his second film, Larencce himself proved a good artiste and made that film also a big musical hit with fantastic dance performance.To fulfill his mother's wish, Larencce tried his hand in a Tamil film and made his third venture is also a big hit. Ganesh (Larencce) was brought up as a timorous person as his father Rangaswamy used to narrate ghost stories. Ganesh never move out of his house after 6 pm. His mother Kantamma (Kovai...
By: TELUGU MOVIES
Tech Data Embraces Municipal Wireless
2007-09-25 17:06:00 At first glance, Tech Data Corp. is pushing into the municipal wireless market just as everybody else is getting out. But take a closer look, folks, and you'll discover that Tech Data is actually moving into a growing (though evolving) market -- despite some negative press coverage about city WiFi networks. And it's a market that craves more solutions providers.
By: The VAR Guy
Cisco: 8 Trends Worth Watching
2007-09-13 06:03:00 The VAR Guy spent September 12 in Dublin, Ireland, locked away with Cisco Systems at the Guinness Brewery. And yes, he actually got some work done. Here are eight key takeaways from the event.
By: The VAR Guy
Cisco Partners Target Georgia Municipalities
2007-09-13 05:18:00 Imagine my surprise: I went to Dublin, Ireland this week to attend a Cisco Systems partner conference. I expected to blog non-stop about channel-related news. And then I ran into an integrator and an application provider that are partnering to build municipal broadband applications in Georgia. It was the perfect story for our sister site, MuniWireless. Here's the scoop.
By: The VAR Guy
Another housing problem contained: sub-prime mortgages cause muni bond down
2007-09-12 12:54:00 Even in today's "anything is possible" world of chaos and hyper-correlation, you have to read it twice to really get it: ratings are being cut on $16 billion of municipal bonds because of the subprime disaster. The link? A muni insurer, Radian, also runs a mortgage insurance subsidiary. No bonus points for guessing what's happening to the CDOs insured by Radian. Radian insured munis are now
WiFi 802.11N: Good Enough for Cisco, Good Enough for All?
2007-09-04 20:43:00 If it's good enough for Cisco Systems, it's got to be good enough for wireless enterprises. That could be the collective reaction of CIOs who are taking a hard look at the emerging -- though incomplete -- 802.11n WiFi standard.
By: The VAR Guy
Muni WiFi-The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
2007-09-02 19:33:00 <p>I'm a fan of the idea of public WiFi. That's WiFi that is outdoors and lets the locals and visitors take their Internet and use it away from home or work, but I have to say that the Muni Players and the advisors really blew it this time, especially the Earthlink folks.</p> <p>First you have to look at the types of Internet users there are:</p> <p>Heavy Users-The always online, need big pipe crowd. These folks already have a business grade Cable Modem, ADSL2+ or business grade DSL or a T1.</p> <p>Medium Users-Need to connect daily, don't live online but need to be online at least twice to five times a day and require more that just email and web browsers. For this crowd DSL, Cable Modem or a wireless EVDO or 3G card works fine.</p> <p>Light Users-they need to check email, book a flight, check a box score, or do some light surfing. For them dial up or even 256k DSL is fine.</p> <p>Then there are two ot...
Five Smart VoIP Moves
2007-08-22 05:55:00 The VAR Guy has spent considerable time discussing voice-over-IP this week during conferences in New York and Colorado Springs. Here are five key moves VoIP solution providers need to make, based on separate chats with executives from Avnet, SugarCRM and Sun Microsystems, among other companies.
By: The VAR Guy
Muni,Operation Dhuryodana
2007-08-21 12:00:00 Muni-1Muni-2Muni-3Operation Dhuryodana please do add your suggestions in the comments column
Cisco VARs Prepare for Wireless Mesh 2.0
2007-08-10 21:54:00 Cisco Systems Inc. and its partners are preparing a series of application initiatives that could reshape and energize the municipal broadband market.
By: The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy Seeks Broadband
2007-06-08 23:33:00 The VAR Guy is recovering from Broadband Withdrawal. After attending MuniWireless 2007: New England earlier this week, he headed to St. Johnsbury, Vermont for some confidential meetings (please don't tell anyone). Ironically, much of the region lacks broadband Internet access. The VAR Guy's broadband problems only got worse from there.
By: The VAR Guy
BelAir Promotes MuniWireless Guarantee
2007-06-05 18:11:00 The VAR Guy is listening to dozens of speakers at the MuniWireless conference in Newton, Mass. Hundreds of cities are examining universal broadband, but they're seeking best practices and assurances that the networks will live up to their billing. Almost on cue, BelAir Networks is introducing new service level guarantees to help give city CIOs peace of mind.
By: The VAR Guy
The VAR Guy Deals With Rejection
2007-06-01 19:16:00 The VAR Guy is heading to Boston this Sunday. He'll be in New England to attend the latest MuniWireless public broadband conference June 3-5. And he may even find some time for fun. But he won't be attending a local Virtualization Summit on June 6. It seems the event organizers declined to save a seat for him.
By: The VAR Guy
Correction: May 21 Muni Wireless Story (AP)
2007-05-25 00:00:00 In a May 21 story about municipal wireless projects, The Associated Press erroneously reported that EarthLink Inc. suspended new bids. The company said it won't seek as many bids, but isn't completely ruling out new ones.
By: Commodity Wealth
Five Steps to Networking Success
2007-05-24 22:31:00 You can tell a lot from a person's body language. During a meeting with The VAR Guy yesterday, Nortel executives looked confident and delivered concise information about the company's five-part networking strategy. What a difference a year makes. First, let's look at Nortel's recent moves. Then let's compare those moves to the Nortel of 2005 or early 2006.
By: The VAR Guy
A New Pitch for WiFi
2007-05-17 17:23:00 Please forgive The VAR Guy for dragging a bit today. He's on his second cup of coffee after spending most of last night at Shea Stadium in New York ... suffering through a three hour rain delay before the umpire said "Play Ball." During the delay, The VAR Guy downed two burgers and a Carvel sundae before reading up on a new stadium the Mets plan to open in 2009. Just like every other big stadium, it will feature state-of-the-art wireless capabilities.
By: The VAR Guy
Video Preview: What Is Municipal Wireless?
2007-05-12 06:34:00 If you're a VAR who's interested in city WiFi and public broadband projects, here's a key person you need to know: MuniWireless founder and editor Esme Vos. Full disclosure: We work with Esme to produce MuniWireless conferences and Web casts across the globe. Now, here's Esme.
By: The VAR Guy
Sunday Brunch: Surprises From CA World?
2007-04-22 17:52:00 Welcome to Sunday Brunch for April 22, 2007. Here's a look at items The VAR Guy is watching this week.
By: The VAR Guy
What is Muni Muni?
2007-04-18 06:07:00 Alam niyo ba kung anong ibig sabihin ng muni muni? Hmmm?? Sa mga di nakaka alam eto po ay pera. Ito ay nag originate sa isang arabo na naghahanap ng pera. Palagi niyang sinasabi na "Muni Muni, Muniiiiiii!!!" at pag naghanap siya ng pera, tinatanong nya "Where is my Muni?" Kaya yun. Yun na yun. Hahaha! Nakaka tawa diba? (kahit hindi naman) Tumawa na kayo, maawa naman kayo sa nagsulat neto, tawa na puhleease??????? Kahit konting smile lang... Pls pls pls>??? ay di man lang nag smile :(. Ayan.. nakangiti na ng konti.. konti pa... yan.. cge pa ngiti ka pa... Ayan! Hehe. Pwede na yan! Pagpasensyahan niyo na po ako, nabaliw kasi ako sa mga PHP functions at codes kaya di ko na maisip nag e popost ko. Tungkol sana sa PHP5 ang article ko ngayon, kaso naisipan ko munang mag muni muni, at bigyan eto ng kahulugan. HeheAnother definition ng Muni Muni. Pag e search mo sa Google, using define: , ang pinaka unang lalabas na meaning ng muni ay: ("he who is silent"): a sage. Isang Sage! Silent pala a...
By: Jehzlau Concepts
First Community College on West Coast to Offer Wind Program
2007-04-17 20:09:00 With more than 6,000 megawatts (MW) of wind energy projected for the Pacific Northwest, many communities anticipate an influx of new jobs. But who?s going to prepare the workers for this high-tech, emerging field? The Columbia Gorge Community College on the boundary of Oregon and Washington is offering the first training for wind energy technicians on the West Coast. Its location near the center of the Columbia River Gorge is a focal point for wind development in the region and makes the school a natural choice to train the new generation of clean energy technicians. Susan Wolff of Columbia Gorge told Wind Energy Weekly: ?Seeing all the wind turbine components being transported through the Gorge signaled the possibilities of jobs for our region. A feasibility study was completed and resulted in the creation of a new program to provide a highly skilled workforce to this rapidly growing industry.? The college has partnered with the industry to develop a curriculum for the six-month...
By: Green Options
Father Of Madonna?s Adopted Son Begs For Communication
2007-04-17 19:14:00 The father of Madonna’s adopted son David Banda is disappointed he hears so little of the baby she brought from Malawi to the UK six months ago. Yohane Banda, who claims he still has no regrets about giving up his child, has begged the pop star to give him regular updates of his son’s progress ...
Indian community shocked at Virginia Tech shootout
2007-04-17 18:02:00 Virginia, April 17 : Shock and disbelief descended on the Indian community at the Virginia Tech university, after a gunman went on a shooting spree Monday and killed 33 people, including a professor of Indian origin.
By: newkerala.com
International community must help Iraq: Ban
2007-04-17 17:52:00 Geneva, April 17 : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the international community Tuesday to assist the Middle East in dealing with the huge problem of Iraqi refugees.
By: newkerala.com
Indian community shocked at Virginia Tech shootout
2007-04-17 16:28:00 Virginia, April 17 (IANS) Shock and disbelief descended on the Indian community at the Virginia Tech university, after a gunman went on a shooting spree Monday and killed 33 people, including a professor of Indian origin. Members of the student community and the faculty said Prof. G.V. Loganathan, 51, who was among those killed in the twin shootouts, was an affable person and an able teacher who was always eager to help Indian students. “I’ve known Prof. Loganathan rather well. In fact, I have lost a good friend and the university an excellent teacher,” said Prof. Kumar Mallikarjunan, associate professor in the biological systems engineering department. “He was always ready to help and very popular among the students and faculty at Virginia Tech,” Mallikarjunan told IANS about his late colleague, who was with the civil and environmental engineering department. He recalled that Loganathan, who is survived by wife and two daughters, received the dean&rsq...
By: Latest News
Sujata Koirala accuses Communist youth of being trained for 'booth ca
2007-04-17 11:52:00 Kathmandu, Apr.17 : A central member of Nepali Congress (NC) has accused Maoists' Young Communist League (YCL) of training its cadres on 'booth capturing.'
By: newkerala.com
Praying for the Virginia Tech community and their families
2007-04-17 07:11:00 My heart is breaking for the 31 students who were murdered at Virginia Tech today. I feel such great sorrow for the families and friends of the students. And the students who are left behind to deal with this horrible act that happened on what I’m sure yesterday they all saw as a very peaceful ...
By: The Bean Blog
Top 3 New Home Communities in Pasco County
2007-04-16 02:45:00 I like to do these posts from time to time just to weigh in on how I feel about things. This is my personal opinion, albeit a highly qualified opinion, and involves my personal taste to a great extent. So, if you go to these communities and don’t love them, it’s probably because you have ...
By: Real Opinionated
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