Municipal Wireless refers to using thousands of overlapping wireless service zones to provide blanket coverage over a municipal area. In some deployments, service providers have used this to provide “free” basic high-speed wireless Internet access for homes, schools and virtually every other place inside the coverage area of a city, with premium services being offered at better prices than most other Internet providers. In other cases, municipalities have created private networks, or contracted with providers to obtain exclusive access to wireless bandwidth.
Municipal Wireless is most commonly attained by using broadband technologies such as WiFi, Mesh and WiMAX to effectively implement a self-forming, self-healing broadband network. These technologies are combined with strategic applications (mentioned above) to ensure the success of the municipal wireless solution and to provide state and local governments with an effective ROI for their Municipal Wireless initiative. Service providers and technology vendors commonly work together with municipalities to deliver a comprehensive private / public partnership for offering municipal wireless.
- Utilization of multiple RF bands (2.4, 4.9 and 5 GHz) enables support for multiple simultaneous applications
- High Performance security enabled
- Easily Deployable
- Automatically self configuring, self healing and self tuning