The City of Pomona and Technology Partners Give Residents a Post-Holiday Gift; Free WiFi Weekend To Provide Community a Free Sample of Wireless Internet.POMONA, Calif. -- From July 7th to July 9th the City of Pomona along with Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc., Affiliated Computer Services Affiliated Computer Services (ACS) (NYSE: ACS) is a Fortune 500 company that provides information technology outsourcing as well as business process outsourcing solutions to businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. (ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. ), Tropos Networks, Inc. and Nomadix will provide free wireless network access to anyone with a WiFi card, offer free WiFi installation and Tech Support to those with laptops, give demonstrations, as well as distribute free WiFi prepaid service cards as part of the City of Pomona's WiFi Weekend beginning on Friday, July 7th. To help celebrate the arrival of the City of Pomona's Wireless Network the city and its technology partners are making WiFi free to everyone over the July 7th to 9th weekend, as well as staging a one-day event one-day event a contraction of the three-day event but like that contest is aimed at selecting the best all-round horse and rider. The events usually contested are show-jumping, dressage and cross-country. , "WiFi Freedom Day," to help educate and further spur the adoption and use of the City of Pomona's WiFi Network See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. . Pomona, considered by some to have been previously affected by the "Digital Divide," has taken steps to help its citizens receive easier access to the Internet through the downtown WiFi cloud that launched in May of this year. As a result of these efforts by the City of Pomona, ACS, and Cheetah Wireless, residents are now able to receive the benefit of access to the Internet without wires. "We would like the business community, residents, students, and Metro Link commuters of Pomona to see how easy it is to connect to the city's new wireless network and to experience the opportunity of surfing the web, checking e-mail, chatting with friends and all the other uses the Internet provides away from their homes and offices," said Mitch Gonzalez, Founder and President of Cheetah Wireless. "We know once they experience the Internet without wires they will really want to use it more often." Two special events kick off the Free-WiFi Weekend. Friday, July 7th starting at 7 am at the Downtown Pomona Metro Link Station and continuing at the Mission Promenade, 101 Mission Boulevard The following roads are named Mission Boulevard:
-- Metro Link Downtown Station 7 a.m. to 10 a.m.
-- WiFi Demos provided by Cheetah Wireless
-- Free WiFi Tech Support for those who bring their laptops
-- Free "I was freed in Pomona" T-Shirts
-- Free Hi-Speed Wireless Pre-paid service cards
-- Free breakfast pastries
-- Mission Promenade, 101 Mission Blvd. (Inside courtyard) 11
a.m. to 2 p.m.
-- WiFi Demos provided by Cheetah Wireless
-- Free WiFi Tech Support for those who bring their laptops
-- Free "I was freed in Pomona" T-Shirts
-- Free Hi-Speed Wireless Pre-paid service cards
-- Free Hoagie sandwiches
Additional information about the City of Pomona's Wireless Network including coverage areas and subscriptions can be found on the Cheetah Wireless web site: http://www.cwti.net. About the Wi-Fi Service Providers Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. provides business process and information technology outsourcing Information Technology Outsoucing or ITO is a company's outsourcing of computer or Internet related work, such as programming, to other companies. It is used in refence to Business Process Outsourcing or BPO, which is the outsourcing of the work that does not require so much solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. There are more than 50,000 people supporting client operations in nearly 100 countries. The company's Class "A" common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol "ACS". ACS makes technology work. ACS is the Information Technology out-source company for the City of Pomona, and has contracted with the City of Pomona since 1998. Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc. (CWTI) headquartered in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. , Nev., specializes in wireless mesh networks (1) A network that relies on all nodes to propagate signals. Although the wireless signal may start at some base station (access point) attached to a wired network, a wireless mesh network extends the transmission distance by relaying the signal from one computer to another. . The company offers technologies from multiple vendors that are integrated into a single wireless canopy. Tropos Networks, Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., is the market leader in delivering ubiquitous, metro scale WI-FI mesh network 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. systems. Their mission is to provide broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. everywhere for everyone through innovative low-cost and simple products and services. Nomadix is headquartered in Newbury Park, Calif., and is the leading supplier of public access Wi-Fi gateways and services. Nomadix' technology enables service providers to monetize wireless connections by presenting customers with compelling services. Nomadix gateways are installed in more than 26,000 locations worldwide, and include several high-profile metropolitan networks. |
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