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- Service Deployment Architectures for Metro Wi-Fi Networks
- Communities are now deploying metro -scale broadband wireless networks for requirements beyond public safety or other internal productivity enhancement applications. These networks are increasingly viewed as a vehicle for bringing broadband access to underprivileged constituents, a platform to deploy advanced multi-media applications and content based services to a wide range...
- Tags: Service Management, Network, Wi-Fi Network, Pronto Networks, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Mesh Networking, Networking, It Services, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Wireless
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Aiirmesh Networks Bundles Email Services With Wi-Fi Services in Cerritos, CA Hot Zone
- Aiirmesh Networks is a system integrator that designs, deploys and operates wireless community broadband infrastructure for municipalities, cell phone companies, ISPs and others. In late 2003, Aiirmesh had successfully launched an 8.6 square mile Wi-Fi 'hot zone' in the city of Cerritos, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles/Orange County with...
- Tags: Pronto Networks, Computer Associates International Inc., Aiirmesh Networks, Wireless LANs, E-mail, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Online Communications
- Case studies
- Pronto Networks Case Study: ResortWiFi
- ResortWiFi is a privately held company based in Scottsdale, AZ with offices in Carson City, NV and Santa Ana, CA. ResortWiFi follows the MSP Managed Services Platform business model provided by Pronto Networks. In the Pronto MSP offering, ResortWiFi is one of many WISPs Wireless Internet Service Provider. In this...
- Tags: Pronto Networks, ResortWiFi, Wi-Fi, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Wireless, Internet
- Case studies
- Corpus Christi, TX Pioneers Metro-Wide Wi-Fi Mesh Net
- Corpus Christi, Texas, rated one of the nation's top ten digital savvy cities in a Center for Digital Government poll, is innovating its technology infrastructure to boost workforce effectiveness and better serve its citizens. The city deployed one of the nation's first carrier-class citywide Wi-Fi mesh networks. It is powered...
- Tags: Network, Pronto Networks, Mesh Networking, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Networking, Human Resources
- Case studies
- Pronto Networks Case Study: Chaska, Minnesota
- Chaska, Minnesota is a Wi-Fi technology trailblazer. Chaska is one of the first communities in the nation to deploy a citywide Wi-Fi network. The goal was to supply affordable Internet access to every resident and business. Using Pronto Networks' carrier-class operations support system OSS, Chaska quickly and cost-effectively set up,...
- Tags: Network, Wi-Fi Network, Pronto Networks, Chaska, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies
- Sutton Place Hotel Offers Wireless, High-Speed Internet Access Based on Pronto's Hotspot Managed Services
- The Sutton Place Hotel is located in Newport Beach in Southern California. The hotel was aware of the myriad benefits from broadband access, especially in guest rooms. Yet given the current economic climate, the solution needed to be cost effective for a hotel-wide rollout compared to using traditional wired approaches....
- Tags: Wireless High-speed Internet, HotSpot, Microsoft Access, Pronto Networks, Sutton Place Hotel, Broadband Internet, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Marketing Research, Networking, Marketing
- Case studies
- Pronto Premium SMS Service Gateway for Public Wi-Fi Access
- The Pronto Premium SMS Service Gateway enables mobile operators to generate additional revenue by offering a new Premium SMS service for Wi-Fi access. Simply put, Pronto's Premium SMS Service Gateway enables mobile phone users to pay for Wi-Fi access using their mobile phone. The Pronto Premium SMS Service Gateway is...
- Tags: Wi-Fi Access, Gateway Inc., Mobile, Pronto Networks, Cell Phone, SMS, Pronto Premium SMS Service Gateway, Wireless LANs, Advertising & Promotion, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Marketing
- Case studies
- Dishnet Wireless Offers High Speed Wireless Internet Based on Pronto's Operations Support
- Dishnet Wireless Limited is a Sterling Infotech Group Company and a leading player in the Internet and Telecom industry. Dishnet's business strategy is to focus on high and rapid Return on Investment ROI. Dishnet required a Broadband Wireless solution for carrier class Operations Support Systems OSS deployments that focused on...
- Tags: Wireless Internet, Pronto Networks, Dishnet Wireless Ltd., Internet, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- Case studies
- Grove Cafe Offers Wireless High-Speed Internet Access Based on Pronto's Hotspot Managed Services
- The Grove Cafe is a very popular coffee house and gourmet deli, located in the upscale Marina district of San Francisco. One of the main objectives for the Grove Cafe in setting up a public WLAN was to minimize the involvement of employees running or maintaining the wireless service. The...
- Tags: Wireless High-speed Internet, HotSpot, Microsoft Access, Pronto Networks, Cafe, Grove Cafe, Wireless, Business Services, Wi-Fi
- Case studies
Additional Resources
- Obama, McCain support making debates public
- Both Obama and McCain have come out in favor of the Open Debate Coalition's call to open the presidential debates for fair use on the Internet, Wired reports. Obama sent a letter to Coalition leader Larry Lessig. He quoted his own letter to Democratic Party chairman last...
- Tags: Debate, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels
- After years of operation, California based ISP Atrivo/Intercage, a well known Russian Business Network darling, faced the music and was disconnected from the Internet by its upstream provider at the end of September. What happened according to MessageLabs's latest intelligence report, was a brief decline of spam due to the...
- Tags: Internet Service Provider, Atrivo/Intercage, Intercage, Atrivo, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Cyberthreats, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Forrester fuels the SAP maintenance price hike debate
- The last few days I've been exchanging email with R 'Ray' Wang, VP and principal analyst at Forrester about the kerfuffle over SAP's unilateral decision to apply a price hike to its maintenance and support fees. Ray specializes in the enterprise market and has special experience of SAP going back...
- Tags: Customer, SAP AG, Forrester Research Inc., Ray, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Investment, Business Structures, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Antitrust suit against Apple, AT&T moves forward
- A federal judge has ruled that an antitrust suit against Apple and A&T over exclusivity deals for the iPhone may move forward, Ars Technica reports. Apple and AT&T signed a five-year exclusive deal but only told consumers they would have to sign up for a two-year...
- Tags: Antitrust, Consumer Protection, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Corporate Law, Security, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Trying to increase productivity? Send your employees home.
- Companies that give their workers the option of telecommuting are seeing greater productivity, lower costs, improved employee health and greater employee retention, according to a survey released today by the Computing Technology Industry Association. Case in point: I'm typing this from this from my own home office...
- Tags: Phone, Telecommuting, Telecom & Utilities, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Future wireless networks could be powered by "smart lighting"
- A light bulb went off in the head of researchers at Boston University about a new wireless networking technology, which was very appropriate considering that it involves, well, light bulbs. The Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center has been created to develop technology that would allow low-powered...
- Tags: Network, Light-emitting Diode, Wireless Networking, Wireless Network, Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- ZDNet blogger: working from home
- More and more people work from home every day. Not only that, more and more people don't work from their offices, or "where they're meant to work". With the Internet, intranet's and extranet's, email and unified communications with VoIP and Blackberry devices, it makes life much easier...
- Tags: Phone, Tea, Blogger, E-mail, Online Communications, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- 46% of social networking users visited mobile social networks
- According to ABI Research, 46% of those who use social networks have also visited a social network through a mobile phone. Of these, nearly 70% have visited MySpace and another 67% had visited Facebook. No other social networking site reached 15% adoption mobile adoption. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "46%...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, AM
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Crowdsourcing? Try expert sourcing
- Corporate America has hopped on the crowd sourcing bandwagon, but they may want to start considering another option: Expert sourcing. That's one of the big takeaways from a report by Forrester Research. Forrester analyst Chris Townsend writes: Corporate use of Innovation Networks is rapidly expanding as...
- Tags: Sourcing, Crowdsourcing, Forrester Research Inc., Expert Sourcing, Purchasing & Procurement, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Put your PC on an energy diet!
- Put your PC on an energy diet!The wonders of USB and Firewire...Almost all of my new "toys" are either USB or Firewire; I don't know how much power these things draw when they're not in active use, but the really infrequently used ones can at least be hot-plugged on demand.But...
- Tags: Desktops, Network technology, PC, chip, CPU, USB
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
- Apple: Perhaps it needs the enterprise after all
- Does Apple need to cook up an enterprise strategy pronto? Despite enterprise interest in the Mac platform and more importantly the iPhone Apple hasn't been going out of its way to target corporate users. That move may be a miscalculation given the economy and a struggling consumer. ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Handhelds, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-03
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