Municipal WiFi capacity gets a boost

Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans are some of the cities that will be enjoying a boost in their citywide WiFi networks care of their provider.

WiFi equipment provider, Tropos Networks, a major municipal WiFi supplier based in Sunnyvale, California, announced that they will be providing a 50% boost in capacity. This means that many service providers will be able to increase bandwidth drastically for users, which is much needed these days to the ever expanding world of video and multimedia content online.

The specific equipment needed for the boost will be out in October, and there will be a test phase rolled out to unspecified customers.

[via cnet]

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