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Glenn Fleishman of Wi-Fi Networking News interviews Martyn Levy. This podcast covers recent trends in municipal RFPs and business models, RoamAD's converged wireless platform, the commoditization of hardware, use of multi-radio nodes as opposed to single radio mesh, 4.9GHz public safety support, infrastructure-mesh architecture, use of directional antennas in preference to omni antennas, benefits of open hardware architecture, WiMAX, and a whole lot more.
Podcast: 39 min., 19 MB, MP3
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The state's first responders and U.S. Border Patrol agents have a new high-tech weapon at their disposal in Southern Arizona: wireless high-speed Internet access that allows them to quickly connect with each other via RoamAD Technology.
The Business Journal
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Learn about the key issues in designing and planning scalable and robust metro Wi-Fi networks

Auckland, NEW ZEALAND—June 18, 2006—RoamAD CEO Martyn Levy will lead two important and timely sessions on network design and planning for citywide Wi-Fi networks at the MuniWireless 2006 Silicon Valley Conference to be held June 19-21, 2006, at the Santa Clara Marriott in Santa Clara, California.

Auckland-based wireless network company RoamAD has notched up another international success with a metro-wide wireless network in the historic centre of Bologna, Italy.
The National Business Review
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The historic centre of Bologna, Italy has become home to Europe's most advanced metro Wi-Fi network.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—June 7, 2006—RoamAD, the leading supplier of carrier-grade, converged wireless networks, today announced that the Municipality of Bologna has launched a RoamAD-based municipal Wi-Fi network that is providing free Internet access to citizens of Bologna as well as to students and faculty of the University of Bologna.

Bologna, Italy will be the first Italian city to get a downtown Wi-Fi hotzone and later, full municipal wireless broadband access. The network is being deployed by HI-TEL Italia, a local VAR, together with Acantho (an ISP). The network is supported by Laboratori G. Marconi, the City of Bologna, and the University of Bologna.
Muniwireless
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Auckland-based international mesh wireless provider, RoamAD, has been lauded by the prestigious research firm Yankee Group for its value proposition in enabling cost-effective city-wide Wi-Fi. In a recent Yankee Group report RoamAD's solution was rated ahead of that of Cisco, Nortel, Tropos and Motorola.
The National Business Review
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Licensed Australian carrier aCure Technology achieved a 100% return on its investment in a RoamAD citywide Wi-Fi network after just 9 months of operation

San Francisco, CA — March 6, 2006—RoamAD, the leading supplier of carrier-grade wireless networking software for citywide Wi-Fi networks, today announced that one of its customers, aCure Technology, which operates the Perth metromesh network, has achieved network payback after just nine months of operation.

The new Wi-Fi mesh hotzone will form part of Telecom's growing nationwide network of wireless hotspots and will be created using RoamAD's leading-edge software platform.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—December 21, 2005—Telecom New Zealand, the largest integrated telecommunications provider in New Zealand, and RoamAD, the leading supplier of carrier-grade wireless networking software for citywide Wi-Fi networks, today announced that Telecom has selected RoamAD's platform to roll-out a campus-wide Wi-Fi mesh network at Southland Institute of Technology (SIT).

The high-quality voice transfer capability of its unique mesh architecture is part of what makes RoamAD a stand out, as is its unique capacity to feed a seamless wireless connection to a user moving at very high (tested at over 85 mph) speeds.
The National Business Review
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