[Davisgig] Public (free) wifi at parks, downtown

[Robert Nickerson]

Hi

Why that could be a good selling point, it is also something that would 
be something to explore after the fiber is deployed, and it has its own 
management challenges.

What the fiber would do would be the transit backbone for wireless 
access points, but managing it as "part of" the fiber rollout might 
divert energy, dilute the idea, and take what time we have to get this 
done.

Not saying its not possible, or not desirable, its just its own major 
project. Though it sounds great, WiFi has "issues" especially when you 
add more access points, it just piles interference on. It's tricky.

And Instaconnect already does WiFi thats free right?

Thanks
RAN




On 4/15/2015 4:23 PM, Scott F wrote:
> I saw some mention of this in the archives somewhere but have we 
> talked about this since? I think providing free wifi could provide an 
> immediate and much appreciated return on investment. Also a very good 
> selling point.
> Scott Fuglei
>
>
>
> On Apr 15, 2015, at 3:51 PM, Steve McMahon <steve at dcn.org 
> <mailto:steve at dcn.org>> wrote:
>
>> I seem to recall from the old Telecommunications Commission days that 
>> UCD has a survey (or list) of apartment buildings with very large 
>> numbers of students.
>>
>> It occurs to me that these apartment complexes might be great 
>> opportunities for early deployment. They're going to have a very high 
>> connection density, making for rapid payback.
>>
>> I believe that in South Korea, a common mechanism for apartment 
>> buildings is to take fiber to the apartment buildings then use a very 
>> high-speed, short-distance version of DSL to use twisted pair to 
>> apartment buildings. I wonder if that's feasible here. I'd love to 
>> find a way to make big apartment complexes early supporters of this 
>> project.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 5:34 PM, Robert Nickerson <rob at omsoft.com 
>> <mailto:rob at omsoft.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi
>>
>>     Met with the UCD Director of Communications Resources, the
>>     Director of the Network Operations Center, and 3 of the senior
>>     network operations staff.
>>
>>     They are good with the project, and have offered to "help" The
>>     form this help could come in, would be coming to City council,
>>     Volunteering to do an outreach event, and interconnecting with us
>>     on completion of course.
>>
>>     If anyone else can think of other ways they might be able to
>>     "help" let us know.
>>
>>     So cautiously optimistic that a major instituational partner for this
>>     would be "on board"
>>
>>     Thx
>>     -- 
>>     Rob Nickerson
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