New company launches mag for Municipal Wireless Industry.A new company, Microcast Communications (Garden City Park, NY), has begun the publication of "MuniWireless Magazine," a new quarterly magazine focused on the municipal wireless market. The new title is a companion to muniwireless.com, a web site launched two years ago, and it has a controlled circulation of 10,000 municipal officials and IT managers, as well as others involved in building public broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). solutions, including state and federal government officials, regulators, consultants and systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. , technology vendors and investors. The magazine carries news and information on public wireless initiatives by cities and counties to provide the latest technologies and services through the wide-area wireless industry, including public safety and voice applications, that "enable city and county officials, service organizations and citizens to improve the quality of their work and lives," Microcast said. Each issue will include feature stories on completed, ongoing and proposed applications, analysis of one or more muni muni See municipal bond. wireless applications, case studies, reviews of the latest research and industry news. The first issue of the magazine included a feature story on the various stages of wireless deployment in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Portland Portland, town, England Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. (OR), Phoenix and Minneapolis, Suffolk County's (NY) decision to implement a wireless system, an examination of mesh networks A communications network in which there are at least two pathways to each node. If one of the paths fails, the other is still available. A "fully meshed" network means that every node has a direct connection to every other node, which is a very elaborate and expensive architecture. , public safety applications, recent legislative and regulatory actions, and scalability. The company also organizes and produces conferences for the municipal wireless industry and has already held sessions in Atlanta and Silicon Valley with an upcoming conference to be held in Minneapolis. |
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