Municipalities

Many Services, One Wireless Network

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Low cost, widely available broadband Internet access helps municipalities cope with some of today's most pressing public policy issues: improving the efficiency and quality of government services, nurturing economic development, closing the digital divide and fostering a greater variety of competitive Internet access service offerings.

SkyPilot offers municipalities an economically compelling alternative for providing broadband access to mobile municipal workers, residents, and small businesses. Municipal police, fire and EMS departments have been among the first to adopt metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks. High-speed, in-field data access dramatically improves public safety officer effectiveness and efficiency by getting critical information in their hands on the street. Once the networks are installed, many municipalities leverage the network for wireless broadband applications ranging from building inspections to automatic utility meter-reading. With substantially lower capital expenditure per home passed and monthly operating expense per subscriber, citywide Wi-Fi mesh networks also allow municipalities to extend network services to residents and small businesses. Today, cities such as Portland, OR, Vail, CO, Aurora, IL, Cupertino and Santa Clara, CA are using metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks from SkyPilot Networks to address the challenges facing their local governments.

Patented SkyPilot SyncMesh technology is the key to delivering the performance, reliability, and security required from a citywide Wi-Fi mesh environment:

  • Sophisticated SyncMesh protocol offers mesh routing intelligence designed to optimize throughput
  • Purpose-built hardware platform with peerless Wi-Fi radio performance
  • Centralized element management for ease of network administration in large-scale deployments
  • Serviceability and ease of deploy using existing city infrastructure

The result: a proven solution with 300 customers in over 30 states and 50 countries for rural and urban municipalities.

The SkyPilot SyncMesh solution offers the capability to easily segregate information access, administration, and user access levels on one network, maximizing utility to the community that can be leveraged over time across a variety of municipal applications.