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EarthLink has recently gained momentum for providing municipal wireless with
their win of Philadelphia and a few other cities. Their 'unique
proposition' is to offer the network for free and then charge for the
service. What made this attractive to Philly and other places was that the
rates are low and they pay the city a percentage of income to be used for
city services and to subsidize low income and other desired classes of use.
The TechConnect proposal differs in that it consolidates and modifies an
offer from Google to provide free service: advertising subsidized free
service would be provided with bandwidth up to 300k bps. Additional levels
of service would be provided at rates that vary accordingly.
The system is to be engineered, installed and operated by EarthLink and it's
partners. Motorola provides engineering/planning, ongoing network
management, and Canopy equipment for use in backhauling to MESH network
nodes. Tropos provides the MESH network nodes which include either a Canopy
connection module or an 802.11a for MESH backhaul to the network. Tropos
units can also connect via Ethernet directly to the network. Among Tropos
MESH network's salient features are utility pole fixtures and compact
design. The MESH was said to be built with one to three hops to limit
latency and bandwidth degradation.
The TechConnect proposals are available for download at:
http://www.sfgov.org/site/tech_connect_index.asp?id=36612
Robert (Bob) Syputa Senior Analyst Maravedis Research, WiMAXPro 4504 NE 203
Place Lake Forest Park (Seattle) WA, 98155 [email protected] tel: fax:
206-367-6931 206-984-2938
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: "SeattleWireless Talk List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: Recomendations for AP
> Real world usage, Ken. Real world. Very, very few environments will see
> someone bother to run WEPCrack on a voice stream.
>
> The original poster expressed concerns about price and availability
> differential between WEP and WPA2 handsets. For a budget-constrained
> environment that needs the equipment soon WEP might be just fine.
>
> d
>
> On Friday, February 24, 2006, at 05:37PM, Ken <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On 2/24/06, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> WEP's weaknesses are well known but for voice applications it's probably
>>> still provides sufficient confidentiality in most environments.
>>
>>If sufficent confidentiality is no confidentiality then yes I would agree.
>>
>>-Ken
>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, February 24, 2006, at 05:03PM, Dimitris Kogias
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> >Dejan Nikic wrote:
>>> >> hmm the proxim AP4000 looks good, but it seems a bit hard to find on
>>> >> the
>>> >> net. I found only one place for $380, which is a good price. Any
>>> >> tips
>>> >> on the security setup of these. The phones we're trying to use should
>>> >> support WEP, do you think this is sufficient?
>>> >
>>> >WEP is broken, so if you care about security you need either phones
>>> >that
>>> >can do WPA/WPA2 (preferably with AES support) or phones where the VoIP
>>> >application protocol itself is secure (secure SIP and SRTP for
>>> >example).
>>> >
>>> >I'm aware of wired (ethernet) SIP phones that implement this, but not
>>> >sure about WiFi phones.
>>> >
>>> >D.
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