Wifi for approx 9 square miles

I'm budgeting for a wireless network that will cover approximately 9 sq
mile, downtown area of a city in Asia.
My prior experience was setup for 300x300 sq ft office floors so I
figure it would be totally different ball game.
Can some one suggest me some products (APs, antennaes), documents
(technical or marketing)?

Thanks in advance.

intel has published a lot of information about deploying wireless networks.
Here's one page, but it includes links to many docs

http://www.intel.com/business/bss/in...iderations.htm


"w1llr0ut34f00d" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I'm budgeting for a wireless network that will cover approximately 9 sq
> mile, downtown area of a city in Asia.
> My prior experience was setup for 300x300 sq ft office floors so I
> figure it would be totally different ball game.
> Can some one suggest me some products (APs, antennaes), documents
> (technical or marketing)?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

w1llr0ut34f00d skrev:
> I'm budgeting for a wireless network that will cover approximately 9 sq
> mile, downtown area of a city in Asia.
> My prior experience was setup for 300x300 sq ft office floors so I
> figure it would be totally different ball game.
> Can some one suggest me some products (APs, antennaes), documents
> (technical or marketing)?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

Have you consider a Mesh network ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_network

you can download open source SW at:
http://www.cuwireless.net/

see also:
http://locustworld.com/
http://www.meshdynamics.com/
http://sean.fioritto.us/weblog/

arnulf @ http://s-a.no/

On 30 Apr 2005 00:21:30 -0700, "w1llr0ut34f00d" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I'm budgeting for a wireless network that will cover approximately 9 sq
>mile, downtown area of a city in Asia.
>My prior experience was setup for 300x300 sq ft office floors so I
>figure it would be totally different ball game.
>Can some one suggest me some products (APs, antennaes), documents
>(technical or marketing)?

Actually, the wireless part is fairly easy and relatively cheap. It's
the backhaul connection to the internet and administration overhead
that will cost real money. Abuse is almost guaranteed and needs to be
policed or at least controlled. For such a system, you'll probably
need to contact a systems vendor. Start here:
http://www.muniwireless.com
I don't have any specific recommendations but suggest you look at
existing projects and ask for copies of their proposals and budgets.


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On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:52:27 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
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> http://www.muniwireless.com
>I don't have any specific recommendations but suggest you look at
>existing projects and ask for copies of their proposals and budgets.

This may help. 72 pages.

http://www.phila.gov/wireless/pdfs/W...305-1245pm.pdf
It's the City of Philadelphia's proposed 135 square mile wireless
network. I don't consider the numbers and operations plan to be very
realisitic, but it's a start. They technical part at the end is
excellent (on first reading). They are apparently aware that there
are existing wireless networks that may interfere with their grand
scheme. There have also been legal challenges.
http://www.phila.gov/wireless/



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