More WLAN providers taking the term 'hot spot' literally

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JEFF CARUSO ON HIGH SPEED LANS
06/16/05
Today's focus: More WLAN providers taking the term 'hot spot'
literally

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Today's focus: More WLAN providers taking the term 'hot spot'
literally

By Jeff Caruso

Soon after the last issue went out - describing yet another
example of public wireless LANs going into cities with warm
climates - more WLAN providers announced they are rolling out
WLANs to two more cities. And yes, these cities are south of the
Mason-Dixon line.

Pronto Networks, which has a hand in the Daytona Beach network
described earlier this week, now is teaming up with BelAir
Networks, which was part of the WLAN deployment in the
Netherlands Antilles. The city they're bringing Wi-Fi to is San
Antonio, Texas.

Meanwhile, SMC Networks let me know that its equipment was
"selected to build a scalable wired and wireless network on the
white sand beaches of Panama City Beach, Florida."

I guess it stands to reason - put WLANs in places where people
spend a lot of time outdoors.

The downtown Alamo Plaza area of San Antonio will be the focus
of the newly created partnership between Pronto and BelAir. The
partnership highlights BelAir's multi-service switch routers and
Pronto's operations support system software.

Other companies involved with the San Antonio effort are service
provider SA Unwired.net, consulting firm Hotzone Integrators and
integrator NAS Wireless. The "hot zone" (rather than "hot spot")
covers several blocks of shops, restaurants and businesses in
the plaza right across from the Alamo, the companies say. Target
users are residents and tourists.

The network took less than a day to install, the companies say.
Five BelAir nodes cover the plaza. SA Unwired plans to charge $3
per hour, or $10 per day, for wireless Internet access.

In Panama City Beach, SMC's TigerAccess Extended Ethernet VDSL
and EliteConnect Enterprise Wireless network products will be
used. More than 70 wireless access points have been distributed
throughout the Dunes of Panama Resort - so that guests can
access the Internet from their rooms. Or from the pool.

Gulf Coast Wireless provides the network, which it implemented
along with Deep Blue Wireless.

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