Rhode Island Wireless Effort Expands to Rural Area; Rhode Island Wireless Innovation Networks (RI-WINs) takes pilot to third community.PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Business Innovation Factory (BIF BIF In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Burundi Franc. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ) announced today that it will extend its Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. Wireless Innovation Networks (RI-WINs) pilot into Foster, Rhode Island Foster is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 4,274. History Foster was originally settled in the 1600s by British colonists as a farming community. . Foster is the first rural community to become part of the pilot, joining Providence and Newport as sites for testing mobile broadband Description Mobile Broadband is a type of wireless internet access that differs from Wi-Fi. Mobile Broadband is the name used to describe the 3G services which are made possible by HSDPA and HSUPA, the latest technologies on the W-CDMA evolutionary path. solutions in education, health care, homeland security Noun 1. Homeland Security - the federal department that administers all matters relating to homeland security Department of Homeland Security executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States , public safety, and business innovation. The first of BIF's Collaborative Innovation Projects, RI-WINs was launched in 2005 to create a border-to-border, mobile broadband network that breaks down barriers to innovation and establishes Rhode Island as an ideal place to explore and test new public private partnerships. RI-WINs is currently in a pilot phase running applications on a test network in Providence and Newport to troubleshoot issues in advance of a state-wide roll out. "Supporting the extension of the RI-WINs pilot into Foster will not only speed up our efforts to make Rhode Island the first state in the country with a border-to-border broadband mobile network, it creates an opportunity to bring infrastructure into a rural community where this kind of technology is not yet available. " says Governor Donald L. Carcieri. "I believe it is important that all Rhode Islanders have the opportunity to benefit from mobile broadband technology and I am proud to help Rhode Island set an example for the entire nation to follow." Governor Carcieri supported the extension of the RI-WINs pilot by providing $200,000 to fund the purchase and installation of a RI-WINs "base station" in Foster, which will connect to the base stations already installed in Providence and Newport. Base stations are the central transmitter/receiver units that maintain communications between the network and mobile devices and are comparable in size to mini-refrigerators commonly found in college dorm rooms. "The extension of the RI-WINs pilot into Foster is an important step towards creating a border-to-border network that delivers value to all of Rhode Island, including its rural areas," says EDC EDC See: Export Development Corp. executive director and BIF founder Saul Kaplan. "RI-WINs can offer vital connectivity and mobile data sharing The ability to share the same data resource with multiple applications or users. It implies that the data are stored in one or more servers in the network and that there is some software locking mechanism that prevents the same set of data from being changed by two people at the same time. to ambulance technicians, fire fighters, and police on the go throughout the state." An engineering study is currently underway to determine the specific location for the pilot base station. The team will also identify additional pilot applications including the possibility of providing access on a test basis to consumers that do not currently have broadband access. RI-WINs team leaders estimate that it will take four to six months for pilot applications in Foster to be operational. The RI-WINs pilot is supporting exciting activities across the public and private sector and includes partnerships with Brown University, Cox, CVS (1) (Concurrent Versions System) A version control system for Unix that was initially developed as a series of shell scripts in the mid-1980s. CVS maintains the changes between one source code version and another and stores all the changes in one file. , Atrion, OSHEAN OSHEAN Ocean State Higher Education Economic Development and Administrative Network, Inc (Rhode Island) , the Port Security Communications Network project in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island Department of Administration, Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families, Rhode Island Department of Health, and Rhode Island Department of Transportation. For more information: www.businessinnovationfactory.com/ri-wins |
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