DeVry University, Keller Graduate School of Management NETW 563 Week 2 Case Study Municipal WIFI AN ASSURED CASE STUDY WITH 100% CORRECT RESEARCH ANSWERS

NETW 563 Week 2 Case Study 1: Municipal Wifi Lebanon, a town in Oregon, implemented a municipal wifi network. Its population was 17000 (Cisco, n.d.). It used a traditional fiber-coax infrastructure for the network. It was a wholesale model and the local ISP PEAK Internet was responsible for the installation and Internet connectivity. In this business model, the municipal area owns the network. The government used the network for internal operations and shared excess bandwidth with the citizens, enabling them to connect to the Internet through the use of guest access privileges. This may or may not be provided for free. The advantage here is that the municipality has the freedom to change its applications. The town has the option to allow business and residential customers to work with more than one service provider. The municipal area should have an IT department with the skills and capability to operate the outdoor wireless network (Cisco, n.d.).