infrastructure

Bakowski, A. (2003). Municipal Telecommunications Policy: A Guide to New Technologies. The Municipal Advanced Telecommunication Infrastructure Project (MuniTIP) CACP Policy Report. Georgia Tech. http://www.cacp.gatech.edu/Policy/munitip.php

The Municipal Advanced Telecommunication Infrastructure Project (MuniTIP) examines the role of municipal involvement in advanced information infrastructure development. The project and this report examine (a) cases of public involvement in this infrastructure, especially by local, municipal actors, and (b) outline a process, and a set of assessment tools to assist stakeholders and policy makers in choosing the right policy approach for their community. Policy approaches identified by the report include: 1) develop a municipally owned infrastructure; 2) expand/augment current infrastructure; 3) create public/private partnerships; 4) create public/non-profit partnerships; 5) stimulate the marketplace; or 6) do nothing. The report can help municipalities to think through whether or not to become involved with the provision of advanced telecommunications services, such as broadband internet, and what approach to provision makes most sense for the community.

Center for Digital Government (2006). Building the Untethered Nation: A Strategic Guide for Communities on Wireless Technology and Broadband Infrastructure. http://www-01.ibm.com/industries/government/ieg/pdf/wireless_guide.pdf

Becca Vargo Daggett Director, Municipal Telecommunications Project -- Institute for Local Self-Reliance, February 2006

By Jesse Sunenblick
Columbia Journalism Review at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, CJR January/February 2005

This article considers the origins, present uses and possible transformative properties of a new frequency-hopping technology called "spread spectrum". Currently, the transformative powers of spread spectrum are difficult to tap into due to old FCC restrictions on spectrum, and the private industry's designs for privatizing the remainder of unlicensed spectrum.

Zhou, Lidong and Zygmunt J. Haas (1999). Securing Ad Hoc Networks. IEEE
network, special issue on network security, November/December, 1999.
www.cs.cornell.edu/home/ldzhou/adhoc.pdf
This article, while now a number of years old, provides a good
introduction to some of the security issues associated with ad hoc
networks, and ways to secure them. The article also explains how ad hoc
networks are different from traditional mobile wireless networks. In
short, “in an ad hoc network, there is no fixed infrastructure such as

Wireless Task Force Report (2006). Broadband for Boston. City of
Boston.
www.cityofboston.gov/wireless/Boston%20Wireless%20Task%20Force%20Report%...
This detailed report by Boston’s Wireless Task Force investigates
options for a municipal broadband (wireless and fiber) network and
recommends that the city facilitate a carrier-neutral, open access,
wholesale-only broadband network, which will be run by a non-profit
organization. This model is important because, unlike the majority of
US municipal broadband projects, especially large-scale ones, it is not