The City of San Jose, Calif., is partnering with Ruckus...
The City of San Jose, Calif., is partnering with Ruckus Wireless and SmartWAVE Technologies to upgrade its free public Wi-Fi network, the city said. The network, initially being deployed in dozens of downtown locations, will cover San Jose’s business district,…
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it said. The project, funded through the city’s parking revenue and general fund, has a one-time upgrade cost of about $100,000 and ongoing costs of about $22,000 a year. The Wi-Fi nodes are being deployed on street lights, traffic signal poles, buildings and other points of presence and will be connected using either high-speed, multi-gigabit fiber connections or wireless mesh connections, the companies said. Since its completion in 2005, the legacy Wi-Fi network only provided sporadic coverage to a few downtown parks and other parts of the city and couldn’t sustain reliable connections for graphic-rich mobile applications and an increasing number of mobile device users in the metropolitan area, the city said. The upgrade is expected to be completed by summer.