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RSS citywideProximity Breeds Danger: Emerging Threats in Metro-Area Wireless Networks
White Paper The paper focuses on three likely attack scenarios: "Wildfire" worms that can spread contagiously over and across wireless LANs, coordinated citywide phishing campaigns based on wireless spoofing, and rogue systems for... [30 Jun 2009]
From Personnel Confusion to Clarity: Kelso Police Department Uses SmartDraw to Create Citywide Organizational Chart
White Paper City of Kelso used SmartDraw to create a citywide organizational chart to easily display employees and their reporting relationships. When the City of Kelso, Washington needed a better way to keep track of city personnel... [15 Apr 2009]
Assessment of Urban-Scale Wireless Networks With a Small Number of Measurements
White Paper In order to evaluate, improve, or expand a deployed, citywide wireless mesh network, it is necessary to assess the network's spatial performance. This paper presents a general framework to accurately predict a network's... [01 Apr 2009]
Google's vision for an open wireless world
News The company has dabbled in citywide wi-fi. Earlier this week, the search giant filed a patent application with the US Patent Office describing its vision of an open wireless network where smart phones aren't tied to any... [29 Sep 2008]
Legal Services of New York City Expands Outreach to Low-Income Clients With Secure, Reliable Network Services
White Paper Legal Services of New York City wanted to transform hodgepodge network into a state-of-the-art system that would enable Legal Services to expand its reach, helping more low-income New Yorkers and deliver secure, reliable IT services... [11 Sep 2008]
Finding an Effective Sustainable Model for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network: Analyzing the Case of Pittsburgh
White Paper This paper investigates the extent to which these goals can be met with four basic models: one citywide monopoly WiMAN provider, facilities-based competition from multiple citywide WiMAN providers, one... [18 Jul 2008]
Scalable Real-Time Gateway Assignment in Mobile Mesh Networks
White Paper WMNs are now being envisaged to provide citywide "last-mile" access for numerous mobile devices running media-rich applications with stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. The perception of future Wireless Mesh... [18 Jul 2008]
Cisco Outdoor Wireless Network Serves Up Automatic Meter Reading
White Paper Cisco outdoor wireless solutions make it practical to deploy and manage Wi-Fi on a citywide scale. This paper describes how a systems integrator utilizes the Cisco Aironet 1500 Series to build a fixed data network that... [13 Jun 2008]
Cyber crime: The global battle
News The approaches of Australia, India, the UK and the US range from specialist national bodies dedicated to tackling major investigations, such as Britain's Serious Organised Crime Agency, to expert-led citywide cyber crime... [05 Jun 2008]
Will Apple's iPhone drive citywide wi-fi?
News Apple's iPhone and other wi-fi enabled handsets coming into the market could boost demand for citywide wi-fi networks, said experts at the MuniWireless conference. Bill Gurley, a general partner at the venture capital... [24 Oct 2007]
Revealed: Top UK base for IT businesses
News Mancunians have been getting more tech-savvy of late, with the city council unveiling plans for a free citywide wi-fi network this year. Manchester has the most to offer UK IT companies hunting for a head office... [26 Sep 2007]
Free muni wi-fi projects a pipe dream?
News Later that same day, EarthLink also said it was killing plans to build San Francisco's citywide network. A day after EarthLink announced a massive restructuring that would essentially put almost half its employees out of... [03 Sep 2007]
Free wi-fi to blanket San Fran?
News While EarthLink and Google are still hammering out details of their citywide wi-fi contract with San Francisco officials, a company called Meraki plans on blanketing the city with free wi-fi using volunteers who will... [15 Aug 2007]
Urban wireless networks set to surge
News Explosive expansion in the number of citywide wireless networks is being predicted as local government and ISPs get switched on to the opportunities ubiquitous wi-fi can offer - economic and otherwise. [26 Jul 2007]
London gets free wi-fi network
News Paris is currently building a free citywide wi-fi network in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent and mobile operator SFR. BT has built a number of citywide wi-fi networks up and down the UK in partnership... [16 Jul 2007]
