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Ricochet Networks has signed an agreement with the City and County of Denver, Colorado, to incorporate Wi-Fi, WiMAX , and other broadband services into the City's existing right-of-way contract with the company.
The agreement will enable Ricochet to provide "Wi-Fi in the Mile High" eventually to the entire footprint of the City and County of Denver. Metropolitan Wi-Fi mesh network will initially connect Capitol Hill and Golden Triangle areas of downtown Denver, an area of approximately 2.5 square miles.
The new scalable mesh network will be powered by Wi-Fi Mesh, point-to-multipoint and wireless backhaul equipment from Proxim Wireless, a wholly owned subsidiary of Terabeam (News - Alert).
Pankaj Manglik, president and chief operating officer of Proxim Wireless sees this as a great opportunity to show what is possible with a Proxim metropolitan wireless solution.
“Ricochet will be utilizing our dual channel AP-4000-MR and MP.11 point-to-multipoint products to offer Wi-Fi services in Denver. Proxim's end to end solution will provide a state of the art network that is very robust with excellent performance,” said Manglik in a press release.
Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is pleased that one of their hometown companies is expanding the wireless services available to Denver residents. The existing Ricochet network has been operating since 2002 in the Denver metropolitan areas. This patented mesh Micro Cellular Data Network providing high-speed, wire-free Internet access serves more than 6,000 municipal, residential, and business users.
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.
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