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What made the city of St Cloud the #1 Metro Wireless Network in the USA?

12:30 PM - 13:00 PM | Wireless Infrastructure and Devices Theatre

Ben Moebes - Director Worldwide Channel Sales, Tropos Networks
Torbjörn Wård - CEO, Aptilo Networks

Since its deployment, the City of St. Cloud Cyber Spot has (for the second year in row) ranked #1 by Novarum in their independent Wireless Broadband review. With a score of 5 out of 5 for “availability and 4 of 5 for “ease of use,” it’s no wonder St. Cloud residents and city employees give the service their own rave reviews. Free wireless Internet access is extremely popular with St. Cloud residents. In the second phase the City expanded its use to incorporate mobile applications for police, fire-fighters and other government departments to streamline processes and improve collaboration between citizens and government. Aptilo's ability to securely separate the private side from the public side and give different priorities for the different user groups has been key to this development. The stability of the wireless mesh network from Tropos Networks has been another critical success factor. In this session Torbjörn Wård, CEO of Aptilo Networks and Ben Moebes, Director Worldwide Channel Sales of Tropos Networks - will share their recipe in building a first class Metro Wireless network with a business model that will hold the test of time and reality.

The session will address the following and more:
• Critical factors behind the successful deployment of a Wi-Fi network in the city of St Cloud
• Things to consider in the network planning phase.
• How the city of St Cloud managed to combine both public/private (local government) use in the same network.
• How did they securely separate different users in the network?
• What are the applications for city of St Clouds private use?
• What are the public safety requirements?
• How does St Cloud use the network to stimulate economic growth?
• How do they make sure that crucial users such as the police and fire department get prioritized?
• How did they manage to comply with US FCC regulations of legal intercept? (Basically the same for EU)

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