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Cities, Governments Go Mobile with Nortel Municipal Wireless Solution
Cities, Governments Go Mobile with Nortel Municipal Wireless Solution.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nNew Deployments Fuel Economic Development, Lower Operational Costs and\nIncrease Public Safety\n\nMINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 23 /CNW/ - Nortel(x) (NYSE/TSX: NT) today announced new\nmunicipal wireless deployments that demonstrate the Company's strength in\nhelping governments embrace broadband wireless as a strategic way to deliver\nefficient services that keep communities safe and productive, as well as\neconomically competitive.\nFrom rural to urban deployments, Nortel's Municipal Wireless Solution is\nbeing used by several new customers in North America, including Carlsbad, New\nMexico; Occoquan Wireless in Occoquan, Virginia and Ronco Communications in\nNiagara County, New York.\nNortel combines a comprehensive portfolio of Wireless Mesh, Wireless LAN\nand WiMAX technologies with a full suite of Nortel Global Services, giving\ncustomers the solutions they need to design, deploy, support and evolve\nmunicipal wireless networks. Nortel's experience designing, launching and\ninstalling hundreds of public and private wireless networks around the world\nhelps customers offset risk in building privately-funded networks. For\nmunicipalities interested in partnering with private sector companies, Nortel\ncan help connect customers with operators that best meet the economic\ndevelopment and public safety needs of the community.\nWith a population of 26,000, Carlsbad, New Mexico is on the brink of\nmassive and rapid economic growth. The city's close proximity to California\nmakes it an attractive location for high tech and hospitality businesses, as\nwell as an ideal travel destination for thousands of tourists each year. To\ncompliment the success of the growing community, the Carlsbad Department of\nDevelopment worked with local service provider Windstream Communications to\ndeploy Nortel's Wireless Mesh Network solution to create a wireless hot zone\ncovering the commercial downtown area. The new network enables residents and\nvisitors to use laptops or wireless handheld devices to access the public\nInternet and helps the City of Carlsbad expand its economic opportunities by\nattracting and retaining new businesses.\n\"With an influx of economic activity and new growth, we needed a\nbroadband wireless service that would further Carlsbad's ability to compete\nwith other urban areas for new business while at the same time maintaini...