Metro-Area and Campus-Wide
Outdoor Wi-Fi Network Design Services

Critical Wireless Broadband Access for the Public, Employees and Visitors on the Corporate Campus, and Emergency Services and Law Enforcement

Buy Outdoor Metro-Area Wi-Fi and WiMAX equipment from Connect802 to Take Advantage of our Wi-Fi Design and Consulting Experience

Your Metro Wi-Fi System Demands:

• Carrier-class capabilities
• Exceptional Performance
• Security and User Authentication
• Ease of Management
• Cost Effectiveness
• Scalability
• Minimum Time to Design
• Minimum Time to Deploy
• Return on Investment

Mesh Router Architecture - Create a "cloud" of connectivity across your community

Do you want to provide wide-area Wi-Fi HotSpot coverage for your city, community, resort, condominium association, or any other larger geographic area? Here's what the web says about metro area Wi-Fi systems:

Using laptops in their police cars, including the Incident Commander's vehicle and the Mobile Command Center, law enforcement officers now have wireless broadband access to LAWNET, a county-wide Intranet for law enforcement that connects officers to the Amber Alert System, the Sex Offender Database and other databases. From anywhere in the hot zone, officers can now download DMV records, including high resolution photos, conduct in-field photo lineups, and perform other tasks that previously required them to return to headquarters. In the future, officers will have access to live video feeds of security cameras and access to the city's Geographic Information System (GIS). As a result, officers are able to spend more time on the beat and now have critical informational tools at their fingertips for more effectively policing the community.

Significant investments are being made in technologies such as in-vehicle and hand-carried computers which need broadband connectivity to be effective. The public safety sector wants to provide the same access to data in the field as is available in headquarters and, thereby, afford savings in manpower and time while improving overall public safety.

The San Francisco Bay Area has launched its 802.11-based wireless HotSpot broadband access network. The network currently consists of over 40 locations, or hotspots, where subscribers with Wi-Fi-enabled laptops and PDAs can tap into the data stream. On December 23, 2005 the City of San Francisco issued a request for proposals (RFP) to build a citywide Wi-Fi network to provide free or low cost Internet access. Network providers now have the specifications of the network so they can submit plans for meeting those guidelines and contributing to San Francisco's TechConnect program.

Metro cell citywide Wi-Fi systems provide Wi-Fi hotspots, global roaming, MDU deployment, hospitality deployment, enterprise guest access, and metro area hot zones as part of the same seamless infrastructure. Systems are controlled from a central location for both community wireless networking as well as into the multiple dwelling unit (MDU) environment.

When the City of Chaska, Minnesota, decided to offer affordable broadband Internet service with speeds comparable to cable or DSL to its residents, how did they do it? They deployed a metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network. Chaska’s MetroMesh network is composed of 250 MetroMesh routers mounted on lampposts covering 16 square miles of the city. Currently, this network serves more than 2,000 subscribers. Users send and receive email, download files, and stay connected. As the newest generation (3G Cellular) of cell phones enters the market with Wireless Voice-over-IP (Wireless VoIP) the ability to seamlessly roam between the cell phone network system and a local HotZone broadband access network will be a great productivity gain for mobile users.

The San Mateo, CA police department has a deployment of 20 MetroMesh routers to build a high-speed wireless broadband network and plans expansion of the Wi-Fi coverage area to encompass the entire 16 square miles within the city borders. The expansion will continue to take shape as funding becomes available. This eventual expansion will allow true broadband wireless access to patrol vehicles anywhere in the city of San Mateo.

In Tempe, Arizona, the Wi-Fi mesh infrastructure, manufactured by Strix Systems, will comprise 400 access points used for both backhaul and access. The Tempe Wi-Fi deployment uses mesh routers for citywide WiFi connectivity and WiMAX for longer range backhaul. The Tempe deployment is the latest in a series of municipal rollouts aimed, at least in part, to provide broadband competition when incumbents haven’t stepped up to the plate with creative new services. WAZTempe is the first and only provider of Metro-Scale, Outdoor WiFi service in Tempe. WAZ is deploying a Metro-Scale Mesh Network that will deliver 95% coverage to the City of Tempe in five phases.

The City of Tempe is the first major metropolitan area in the United States to deploy citywide wireless Internet access. The WAZTEMPE network, is currently the only provider of Metro-Scale WiFi in the state of Arizona, and operated by Neoreach Wireless, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the MobilePro Corporation. NeoReach Wireless, Inc. provides city-wide multi-band Wi-Fi networks for municipal vehicles and personnel, including public safety employees as well as services for residences, retail businesses, schools, hotels and resorts, transportation operators and public events. The city of Tempe, Arizona, in partnership with WAZTEMPE, is currently deploying a 40-square-mile Wi-Fi network that will provide wireless broadband to residents, as well as a network for municipal and public safety employees.

WAZTEMPE is installing hundreds of access points throughout Tempe, in phases, with full deployment scheduled to be complete in the first quarter of 2006. The "mesh network" will cover the entire city allowing subscribers to utilize the Internet on laptops, cell phones, and PDAs anywhere within Tempe's borders.

Wireless infrastructures in rural and urban environments are no longer limited to a single application, function, or user group. With equipment and design available through Connect802 governmental agencies or service providers can deploy wireless infrastructures to meet a number of usage scenarios. A single outdoor Wi-Fi wireless broadband access network system can support multiple user types, such as police, fire, private city employee access, and public resident access. The ability of the community's network to deliver significant bandwidth and low latency across the network, and securely segment and prioritize the varying types of user traffic, makes Connect802's designs and equipment ideal for deploying these types of mixed use networking scenarios.

The Caribbean island of St. Maarten has pristine beaches, a tropical climate, and an exciting nightlife. What it didn't have was reliable wireless Internet access for its residents and for the tourists who visit the island. They needed to offer guests a way to access the Internet and stay connected to their families, friends, and businesses. They began by implementing a Wide-Area Wi-Fi network to deliver wireless connectivity in Philipsburg, the capital of the Dutch island.

Municipalities recognize that their communities need a secure communication infrastructure for public safety operations. Emergency first responders, law enforcement, and public safety personnel can go beyond unlicensed Wi-Fi systems and expand into fully licensed 4.9 GHz public safety band systems based on the same proven infrastructure technology developed for the 802.11 unlicensed space. Connect802 can bring licensed band mesh router systems that feature VLAN capability, traffic prioritization, network gateway interconnects, and remote management to a secure, centrally managed system for data, video surveillance, VoIP, and more. For public safety customers, Connect802 brings FCC certified 4.9 GHz licensed radio equipment into the design. For cities, communities, resorts, and enterprise operations, Connect802 provides a custom mixture of point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, wireless distribution system (WDS), and mesh router solutions in the unlicensed ISM and U-NII bands at 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz (802.11b, 802.11a, 802.16 WiMAX and narrowband microwave).

Connect802 has provided Wi-Fi HotSpot and HotZone design and equipment specifications for community Wi-Fi network systems from California to Florida and as far as Parak, Malaysia and Benin, Africa. We've worked with point-to-point access technology to bring WiMAX data rates 60 miles through the jungle and we've designed 500 Megabit per second ultra high-speed links between the Burroughs in New York City. When your city, community, or group is ready to make wide area high speed Wi-Fi available in your community - We've Got You Covered.