Partners

Wired Towns’ strategy has been to create a fully integrated turnkey solution for large scale public Wi-Fi networks. The solution had to be scalable, deliverable anywhere, and as a local community network, it had to generate value. From here, Wired Towns sought out the vendors and partners required to deliver it.

Until now, virtually every large scale Wi-Fi project in the U.S. has failed. The chief reason has been that the networking gear deployed was just not capabile of delivering a strong reliable signal, and certainly not cost effectively.

Wired Towns was incorporated in 2009 around the fact that in Altai it found the Wi-Fi networking gear vendor it needed to created its integrated bundle. Altai has been able to work where nothing else does. For range and quality of service, for price performance, it is the best in the market,

While Altai is deployed in 40 countries, it is hardly known here in the U.S. Wired Towns is changing that with deployments in Union Square, NYC, Rockefeller Plaza and the Concourse, and in Times Square. Given the engineering challenges that each of these dense urban locations each presented, in the end Altai was the only solution.

Wired Towns, as Altai’s U.S. Representative, then began to look for a distribution and integration partner, both for Altai’s solutions, and, more broadly, for it’s global turnkey solution. Lemcon was identified as that distributor / integrator, and as the company best suited to provide the project management planning, installation, maintenance, monitoring, reporting, support and back end billing services required. You can read their corporate presentation Corporate PresentationEnglish090918.pdf.

Lemcon Networks, a global company headquartered in Finland with over 800 people in its wireless network integration practice, has built many thousands of cell sites for large carriers around the world. Now they are taking the same discipline, methods and systems and are applying these to large scale Wi-Fi networks.

Here is a link to Lemcon’s corporate site where they discuss their Wi-Fi capabilities:

With Lemcon, Wired Towns can build out and run 100+ node networks anywhere in the and in at least 40 countries around the world. You can learn more about them Wired Towns Project Support Center Presentation.pdf (it’s a big file).

With Lemcon and Altai providing the basic platform for Wired Town’s deployments, we have reached in two directions - back toward providers of basic internet connectivity (fixed wireless providers, carriers) on one hand , and forward to providers of web design services web application services on the other.

Wired Towns’ networks need to connect to the Internet at some point. That’s where, in New York City, Rainbow Broadband comes into play. As a provider of fixed wireless backhaul, with rooftops on dozens of NYC buildings, Rainbow is able to deliver the high speed links Wired Towns wants for its clients. A 10 Mbps link now feeds Union Square. The same in Times Square. Wired Towns builds high capacity Wi-Fi networks. No DSL. Not even a T1s or T3s. With Rainbow, we can double capacity with a simple phone call.

As Wired Towns is now entering other markets, other cities, we have been developing relationships with other backhaul partners — regional and local telecoms - able to deliver high capacity links for our networks. If the future in mobile video, we want to provide the capacity to support that.

On the front end, Wired Towns has been developing an ASP solution for local community portals with its web development vendor Zaah. It drives the portal in Rockefeller Center , which is available both in the WiFi Hot Zone and on the web. This portal service gives clients the ability to update their own content through a content management system. The portal service itself is a template driven, feed driven, dynamic, modular, Web 2.0 experience, We can drop whatever design template you wish on it and provide the portal with whatever branding, content, and functionality you wish. With this service, we give the client and the community to create and maintain their own content while handling all the hosting and reporting for the site.

From here, Altai, Lemcon, Zaah and Wired Towns are seeking for additional ways to add value to the present bundle, whether through developing advertising solutions, energy conservation technologies, VOIP, and through various location-based and service and content offerings.

As we round out this bundle and create large scale solutions, we believe that the future of wireless is in the local.