WiFi Revolution in Silicon Valley

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on July 24, 2007 Comments (0)

KQED emailed me a link to an interesting story on how a consortium of four companies, headed by Cisco and IBM, are planning to build a 37 town muni WiFi network in Silicon Valley.

I still want to know about device density i.e. how many WiFi enabled devices are there now, how many will there be in three years. Device density is crucial. That is the pool of potential users.

It’s a $100 million dollar experiment for them. I like their chances more than I did the ill-fated Cometa. That consortium of Intel, AT+T and IBM went through $40 million back in 2003 in the attempt to create a wholesale backbone/backend for WiFi. No devices then, some now.

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