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RFP Under Development For High-Speed Wireless Data Network to Cover Silicon Valley

Smart Valley, an initiative of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network (JVSVN), the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority (SAMCAT), and Intel Corp. today announced the signing of an agreement to develop a Request for Proposal to design a high-speed wireless data network that will cover all of Silicon Valley.

The Smart Valley initiative envisions a broadband canopy covering a 1,500 square-mile area stretching from Fremont in the East Bay, south to Gilroy, over the hill to Santa Cruz, and up the Peninsula to San Mateo. Establishing this expansive wireless infrastructure will again demonstrate Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial leadership by expanding opportunities for emerging wireless technologies, increasing wireless enabled business development, improving government services, including applications for public safety and emergency response, and filling in gaps to affordable broadband services.

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Plan for a wireless valley raises questions

By Jessie Seyfer
Mercury News

Setting up a wireless Internet hotspot at your local cafe is relatively easy.

Building a secure, affordable high-speed wireless network to cover Silicon Valley’s 1,500 square miles could cost tens of millions of dollars and pose major technical challenges. Nothing like it has been done in the United States, experts say.

A coalition of valley leaders said this week that they will seek bids to create just such a regional Internet hotspot. The business, government and academic leadership group Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, along with the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority, plans to solicit proposals in April.

Full Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/13735135.htm

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