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Las Vegas trials MeshNetworks system

Aug 27, 2004 12:00 PM

The City of Las Vegas has deployed throughout its downtown a wireless broadband network developed by MeshNetworks. The Las Vegas Traffic Engineering Department will work with public-safety and city agencies to conduct the trial. Depending on the results, plans exist to expand the deployment to cover the metro area’s 58 square miles. Cheetah Wireless Technologies executed the deployment. The MeshNetworks Enabled Architecture systems is an ad hoc, or peer-to-peer network that offers symmetric upload and download speeds ranging from 512 kb/s to 1.5 Mb/s, with always-on connectivity even when vehicles are traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour.

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