This was my Cisco III current events assignment. This is intended to display my PowerPoint and reporting skills.

2. Ambitious plan to build 1,500-square-mile wireless public broadband network faces many obstacles.

3. Jed Kolko moderates a panel with speakers : Tad Deriso Seth Fearey Jeff Fishburn Robert Albee The Wireless Silicon Valley project was the subject of a presentation at the MuniWireless conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on Tuesday afternoon.

4. Expected to cost $100 million to $150 million, Wireless Silicon Valley involves developing an architecture covering 1,500 square miles. It would be used by around 40 cities in Silicon Valley, each of which has contributed $2,500 to seed the effort.

5. The network would only function outdoors and provide capabilities ranging from citizen access to the Internet to provision of public services. A variety of applications has been suggested, ranging from wireless reading of water meters to irrigation control and wireless parking meters that could have varying prices based on the time of day

9. Reaction From : Seth Feary ( project lead for Wireless Silicon Valley and vice president of Joint Venture,Silicon Valley Network) "We're going to move beyond the model of laptops connecting the Internet doing e-mail and the Web. We want to connect devices and things." "People coming here for conventions would spend more money if they knew where to go. We can use this network to help give them that information." "We're breaking new ground here. This is a big, big challenge." Article courtesy of: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/24/wireless-valley_1.html

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