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FEATURED TOPICDigital Transition -The term "Digital Transition" describes the process all organizations must go through in the 21st Century, as they leverage new technologies that provide new options for Applications, Equipment, Processes, and Networks that make them more effective. In contrast, the term "Municipal Wireless" is limiting. It puts the network technology ahead of the application and process changes that drive the business case. ORIENTATION |
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Whatever knowledge you may bring from past telecom or wired networking experiences, this field is new enough that you'll want to learn new vocabulary and get familiar with the context of this emerging wireless landscape. For the novice or the well experienced network planner, a pause to refamiliarize yourself with the background information offered in this section will be time well spent. Use the Orientation section to get your bearings on this new world of wireless, as detailed below. Wireless Broadband represents the potential of the future and that future has now arrived. Originally a technology for home and office networking, Wi Fi gained popularity in Hot Spots, and now it has been enhanced to create Metropolitan Mesh networks that cover whole cities, and WiMax looms on the horizon with still more potential. This technology is currently affordable, capable, available, modular, scalable, and adaptable to many uses, most of which are only now being discovered. A key reason for the growing popularity of wireless broadband among municipalities is its value and immediacy, and its flexibility as either a complementary solution on the way to a wired network or as a final network solution. It's easy to understand the excitement when comparing metropolitan mesh networks to the other options with significantly higher equipment, design, and deployment costs that can't be ready in short order like metropolitan mesh can: These technologies are disruptive enough that you may find your assumptions challenged, and dynamic enough that there may be a new development that changes the way you look at things. The subsections will be updated frequently, and there will be two options for viewing - directly from this website, or download sections to print and load into a loose-leaf binder. The Orientation Section is organized as follows: Resources: Wireless 101: Laws and Regulatory: Uses of Metro Networks: Business Models: I appreciate your suggestions. Send me an e-mail Posted on May 16, 2005 at 03:06 PM CommentsPost a commentTrackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: |
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