Cisco’s planned Wi-Fi mesh network in the Italian Province of Brescia will be one of the largest WLAN deployments to date, according to a story in InformationWeek.
The network will stretch across 4,800 square kilometers and deliver broadband services such as VoIP to more than 200 rural towns, writes InformationWeek. Only half of the province currently has Internet access.
The story reads: “Brescia tapped Cisco to provide the necessary equipment, including access points to be mounted on light poles, switches at town halls, and a management system at the core of the network. Brescia is a trendsetter for mega-scale wireless deployments. About 600 access points have been deployed already and another 200 will go up before the build-out is completed.”
