Viva Vegas wireless

If you want to bet on municipal wireless, where do you go? Vegas, baby! At least, that's the hope of city leaders who have signed a contract to put Las Vegas on the path to wireless networking for citizens and city employees from access points located on traffic signals and street sign poles and housings. The idea of a wireless network that covers a city, bridging the "digital divide" and lowering connectivity costs for municipal infrastructure devices and employees, is attractive to many governments. It's not all smooth sailing, though, as cities like Philadelphia and some locations in Florida can attest. There are lessons to be learned, and resources to be used in the installations that work--and more systems are on the way.

For more on Las Vegas networking:
- Read the account at CIO-Today