Brescia, Italy deploys large outdoor Wi-Fi hotzone

Brescia (province: Lombardy; pop. 200,000) has deployed a large outdoor Wi-Fi hot zone in its historic center for video surveillance on public transport, government applications and public Wi-Fi access. The city is using equipment from Aruba Networks; the network was designed and deployed by Lais Brescia, a local partner of Aruba in the region.

“We needed a proven multiservice mesh solution with minimal infrastructure and cabling needs, high performance for video over multiple hops and low visual impact,” said Massimo Bianchini, City of Brescia Supervisor of Technological Innovation. “Since we already use Aruba at our university, having a single vendor for multiple projects greatly simplifies deployment and management for us.”

The municipality’s key criteria for the solution selection were product reliability, high bandwidth availability and manageability and a strong focus on aesthetic design. The city of 197,000 people is host to a wide variety of historically and architecturally significant buildings and monuments and the new system needed to be powerful and flexible, with sufficient capacity and reach to be deployed pervasively without drawing attention. The municipality chose Aruba AirMesh 802.11n MSR-2000 mesh routers for ubiquitous Wi-Fi access throughout the historical center of Brescia. The low-profile AirMesh routers were installed on existing municipality infrastructure (traffic lights, LED panels and parking lots) to create a wireless mesh infrastructure, alleviating the need to run cabling to each device.

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