Municipal Wireless

Municipal Wireless refers to using thousands of overlapping wireless service zones to provide blanket coverage over a municipal area. In some deployments, service providers have used this to provide "free" basic high-speed wireless Internet access for homes, schools and virtually every other place inside the coverage area of a city, with premium services being offered at better prices than most other Internet providers. In other cases, municipalities have created private networks, or contracted with providers to obtain exclusive access to wireless bandwidth. This network and/or bandwidth is then used to support value-added municipal applications, such as public safety, workflow automation, mobile VPN and others, which offer significant improvements in efficiency or cost reductions for municipal operations. Municipal Wireless is most commonly attained by using broadband technologies such as WiFi, Mesh and WiMAX to effectively implement a self-forming, self-healing broadband network. These technologies are combined with strategic applications (mentioned above) to ensure the success of the municipal wireless solution and to provide state and local governments with an effective ROI for their Municipal Wireless initiative. Service providers and technology vendors commonly work together with municipalities to deliver a comprehensive private / public partnership for offering municipal wireless.

Nortel's Municipal Wireless Solution combines wireless mesh, wireless LAN and WiMAX technologies with integrated applications (e.g., automated meter reading) and a full lifecycle of global services for the design, deployment, management and maintenance of your network solution. We can even help connect state and local governments with the service providers and anchor tenants best suited to address their economic development and community services needs. Download this brief and find out more.

Municipal Wireless Solutions are compelling - primarily because of the lower deployment and capital costs and the freedom from cabling, as well the strong financial benefits they provide for end users. These benefits include:

• Kickstarting economic development. Municipal Wireless allows communities to compete to attract new businesses, residents and tourists.
• Improving public safety and homeland security. Wireless surveillance cameras have reduced crime in certain areas by 50 percent; wireless broadband mobility allows first responders to collaborate and receive information in real-time, enhancing their situational awareness and speeding their response to emergencies.
• Improving productivity and efficiency of government operations. Improve citizen services by mobilizing workflow process - social service or healthcare workers can reduce the time to deliver public assistance from three weeks to less than one. Utilities can increase productivity and lower operating costs with automated meter reading, reducing the costs of reading a meter by 50 to 90 percent.

We make it easy for you to drive new value from your network by offering compelling and fully tested applications such as Subscriber Management & Mobile VPN. We have a dedicated facility in Raleigh, NC, to showcase all the tested applications with our infrastructure.

Nortel has created successful municipal wireless networks across the globe... from rural deployments to the largest deployments of the world, including City of Taipei, Taiwan, and City of Moscow, Russia. We've designed, installed and launched hundreds of wireless networks in 70 countries across the globe with local channel partners and the world's leading operators.

Improves public safety and homeland security. Wireless surveillance cameras have reduced crime in certain areas by 50 percent; wireless broadband mobility allows first responders to collaborate and receive information in real-time, enhancing their situational awareness and speeding their response to emergencies.

Improves productivity and efficiency of government operations. Improve citizen services by mobilizing workflow process - social service or healthcare workers can reduce the time to deliver public assistance from three weeks to less than one. Utilities can increase productivity and lower operating costs with automated meter reading, reducing the costs of reading a meter by 50 to 90 percent.

Municipalities, service providers and channel partners choose Nortel for their Municipal Wireless solution because we get the network in right the first time by enabling the entire solution. Nortel delivers fully integrated applications reducing the risk of the project by improving productivity and efficiency of the municipality while improving ROI for the provider. We bring you the partners such as service providers and anchor tenants that you need to fit your desired business model. Nortel enables the entire solution as follows:

• We help you get your network in right the first time with services ranging from consulting to installation and integration support and beyond.
• We make it easy for you to drive new value from your network by offering compelling and fully tested applications such as Subscriber Management & Mobile VPN. We have a dedicated facility in Raleigh, NC to showcase all the tested applications with our infrastructure.
• Nortel is the only solution provider that offers all wireless broadband technologies (WLAN, Mesh, WiMAX, Cellular/3G) ensuring you have the best technology to meet your objectives
• We've done it successfully from rural deployments to the largest deployments of the world - City of Taipei, Taiwan and City of Moscow, Russia. Nortel has designed, installed and launched hundreds of wireless networks in 70 countries across the globe with local channel partners and the world's leading operators

Nortel is your single source for the experience, breadth of technologies, partner relationships and services to create and manage successful municipal broadband wireless solutions, with rapid return on investment. We've done it successfully from rural deployments to the largest deployments in the world - City of Taipei, Taiwan, and City of Moscow, Russia. Contact us today to discuss an end-to-end solution and the possibilities for your network.