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Andrew Donoghue
ZDNet UK
Published: 22 Feb 2007 17:24 GMT
One of Finland's largest cities is building out a metropolitan mesh network to provide high-speed voice, video and data access to its citizens.
The city of Oulu announced on Thursday that it is using mesh-networking technology from wireless networking manufacturer Strix Systems to double its existing outdoor Wi-Fi coverage with an extra 60 outdoor mesh nodes in the city centre.
Overall, Oulu is committed to adding around 210 extra access points to the network — known as panOULU — by the end of 2007.
"This is a good example of an innovative public and private partnership that can be established to enable large-scale wireless access networks and bring entire cities online," said Jim Mooreland, vice president of worldwide sales for Strix, on Thursday at NetEvents in Geneva.
Mesh networks are made up of individual mesh nodes, which have the ability to automatically form connections with other nodes within range, and reroute traffic if a node drops offline. This makes the networks self-organising.
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(Lead for this story from Frederick Wamsley via email.)
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