Muni Wireless Networks: Possibilities for Lakewood

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Muni Wireless NetworksPossibilities for Lakewood

• Presented by Lakewood Public Library
• Kenneth Warren
• - Bob Hazeldine - John Guscott - Nick Kelley -
  Dave Popeck -
• August 10, 2005
• http//www.lakewoodpubliclibrary.com/wifi/

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Benefits of Muni Wi-Fi

• Improves economic activity?
• Attract/retain residents?
• Improves city services?
• Improves personal productivity/quality of life of
  Lakewood citizenry?

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Scenarios

• City Wide Wi-Fi
• Corridor(s)
• Targeted Neighborhood(s)
• Scattered Hotspots

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Necessary Equipment

• Internet Feed
• Network Hardware Infrastructure router, access
  points, antennas
• User Equipment wireless network adapter
  computer or mobile communications device

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Data Circuit Costs

• Telecom Companies
• Cable Television Companies
• Ultra-broadband

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Network Infrastructure

• Straight wi-fi or wi-fi mesh?
• Access points
• Antennas
• Router
• Network management software
• Where to locate? Who will install?

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User Equipment

• Computer
• PCMIA/USB Adapter
• PDA
• SmartPhone

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Issues to Resolve

• Populations to Serve
• Coverage
• Costs
• Charging for Service
• Physical Maintenance
• Security
• Terms of Use
• User Technical Support/Training
• Legal Minefields

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Legislation

• Ohio House H.B. 188
• U.S. House H.R. 2726 IH
• U.S. Senate S. 1294 IS
• U.S. Senate Broadband Investment and Consumer
  Choice Act

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U.S. House H.B. 2726 IH

• Pete Sessions of (TX)
• introduced May 26, 2005
• To prohibit municipal governments from offering
  telecommunications, information, or cable
  services except to remedy market failures by
  private enterprise to provide such services.

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Ohio House Bill 188

• If two or more competing private enterprises
  provide electronic commerce services, a
  government agency must not engage, through the
  expenditure of public moneys, in any activity to
  provide or offer those services or to expand
  similar services to the public.
• Any provider of electronic commerce services that
  resides or does business in Ohio has standing to
  bring a cause of action for appropriate relief in
  a court of competent jurisdiction challenging the
  provision of those services by a government
  agency in a manner that is not in accordance with
  the bill's exception procedures (see Sec.
  1306.28).
• Nothing in the bill, however, prohibits a
  government agency from providing electronic
  commerce services to the public in the absence of
  two or more competing private enterprises
  providing those services.

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U.S. Senate S. 1294 IS

• Senator Lautenberg (R) of NJ
• introduced June 23, 2005
• No State statute, regulation, or other State
  legal requirement may prohibit or have the effect
  of prohibiting any public provider from
  providing, to any person or any public or private
  entity, advanced telecommunications capability or
  any service that utilizes the advanced
  telecommunications capability provided by such
  provider.

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Broadband Investment and Consumer Choice Act

• Senator Ensign (R) of NV
• introduced July 27, 2005
• In the event that market failure leads to State
  or local governments to contemplate construction
  of their own communications services, the option
  to enter that market should be first provided to
  commercial providers under similar terms to
  ensure that such governments are not competing
  unnecessarily with private industry. Sec. 2,
  (11)

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Successful Projects

• Hermosa Beach CA
• Chaska MN
• Dayton OH
• Dublin OH
• www.muniwireless.com - quarterly reports

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Potential Applications

• E-mail/IM communications Web browsing
• Filesharing/downloading
• Digital Cities Initiative e-government apps
• OneCleveland exclusive content/applications
  distance education possibilities for Café
  University
• 24/7 access to library enhanced catalogs,
  databases, KnowItNow 24X7 reference service, Web
  site
• Machine-to-machine communication automate
  devices parking meters, surveillance cameras,
  traffic signals

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Future User Applications

• Consumer electronics networking
• IPTV/Media device
• media center PCs portable media devices
• Gametown Gaming/entertainment networks for
  residential branding
• Wi-Fi VoIP phones
• asterisk PBX, Skype phones

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Future Wireless Technologies

• 802.11n/MIMO
• WiMax
• Ultra Wideband
• WPAN Wireless Personal Area Networks

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Where Do We Go From Here?

• Form ad-hoc executive group
• Study Intelligent Community best practices and
  other successful projects around the world
• Start small phase it in
• Exec. Group/Council draft RFPs for all phases
• Develop viable business models and long-term
  funding strategies
• Hold Lakewood Tech Summits every six months