According to Yañez, BGH has already finished 10 projects, deploying infrastructure for digital communities in the Buenos Aires, Entre Ríos, La Rioja, Chaco and Tierra del Fuego provinces.
Most of these projects were specific connectivity deployments for small towns and some universities campuses.
"What we expect for this year is to start working on bigger projects with more applications. For example, we are currently hoping to land a project to create a digital community in a city of 80,000 inhabitants," Yañez said.
Last year, BGH deployed a free access Wi-Fi zone in the downtown area of Carlos Casares city in the Buenos Aires province. Other municipalities are interested in using Wi-Fi to complement e-government projects, Yañez said.
Besides internet access, the company also provides private network access, remote monitoring and video surveillance services. BGH mainly uses communications infrastructure supplied by US telecoms equipment manufacturer Motorola (NYSE: MOT).
For Wi-Fi projects, BGH uses Motorola's HotZone Duo wireless broadband solution, which is a next-generation dual radio network solution with two embedded radios (a 2.4GHz, 802.11b/g radio and a 5.8GHz, 802.11a radio), which can be configured into a single radio or dual radio node.
BGH recently deployed a digital community project in Tierra del Fuego's capital Río Grande using a combination of Motorola's mesh technology and wireless broadband technology Canopy to develop a transit control project in the city, Yañez said.
The executive said BGH is holding seminars to educate municipalities and other government entities about the use of wireless broadband.
Quelle/Source: Cellular-News, 18.06.2007
