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As urban populations grow, public safety and security are becoming key concerns for governments and municipalities, who are proactively seeking more effective ways to prevent crime, deter anti-social behavior and enhance safety.   The most common approach taken by municipalities is to install advanced surveillance systems equipped with High Definition IP-cameras, PA speakers, panic buttons,

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Many successful wireless ISPs began due to a lack of rural Internet service, or insufficient service by existing providers. During their initial phase, the ISP is enthusiastic to set up their network and is motivated by short term goals. Typically dealing with budget constraints, a basic wireless access technology is usually chosen. Once the first few paying

Our world is becoming 100% connected, with continuous connectivity a basic commodity. With an ever growing portion of our data living in the cloud, forced unavailability is fast becoming unacceptable. While we used to get some work done and consume entertainment in offline mode, being online is now a key requirement for many elementary services.

Wireless Point-to-MultiPoint (PtMP) networks use a finite frequency spectrum as a shared medium to convey data traffic to multiple users from a single location. The spectrum used for transmission enables the delivery of a certain amount of traffic from a single Base Station to multiple remote Subscriber Units (SU) and vice versa.   In order

There was a time when the argument was commonly made that rural Wireless Internet Service Providers needed to litter Access Points with 100 or more CPEs in order to properly monetize a sector.   This meant offering customers packages that amounted to little more than a handful of megabits per second.  After all, rural customers

When one thinks of smart cities, one might be forgiven for overlooking Africa, but not for much longer as the technology is in play and expanding rapidly.   South Africa, in particular, offers an increasing focus on developing smart cities to the extent that the South African Local Government Association defined the term to coordinate

Gurmukh Neote is a telecom veteran and the CTO of BBnet, an Irish service provider.    BBnet has a customer base of thousands of enterprise and residential customers mostly in rural areas. Gurmukh has been working with RADWIN since 2011 – initially deploying RADWIN 5000 PtMP and RADWIN 2000 PtP and since 2016, the JET Beamforming platform. We

Will WISPs be ready when the Big Bad Wolf comes knocking at their door?   Reading a bedtime story to my son is easily my favorite part of the day. While reading the ‘Three Little Pigs’ recently, I noticed the similarity between how they try to defend their homes from the big bad wolf, and