Trapeze Gear Used for Different Sort of City-Wide Hotspot Network

Trapeze Networks usually announces enterprise products and deployments, but not so with today’s Chinese network rollout: Partnered with Commnet in China, the two firms will deploy 3,000 Wi-Fi hotspots in Hangzhou, a city of 6.5m. But rather than focus on a ubiuqitous network, it’s clear from what’s not stated in the press release that this is an efficient deployment of service where it’s needed.

The city has six urban districts that total 260 sq mi and nearly 2m people’ 3,000 nodes couldn’t possibly offer total coverage even if just those areas (rather than “eight metropolitan districts”) were what was to be covered. But that’s not really what’s needed.

The network will be built over the next 15 months.

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