EarthLink, Google Propose San Francisco TechConnect

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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 rsyputa at wimaxpro.com tel: fax: 
206-367-6931 206-984-2938


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <d.g.luechtefeld at mac.com>
To: "SeattleWireless Talk List" <talk at seattlewireless.net>
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 <ken at ipl31.net> wrote:
>
>>On 2/24/06, d.g.luechtefeld at mac.com <d.g.luechtefeld at mac.com> 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 
>>> <dimitris at gmail.com> 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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