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Digital City Network Infrastructure

The core of the Digital City is an affordable, broadband network infrastructure. Fortunately, IP networking technology has now extended its utility beyond the enterprise, enabling integrated fixed and mobile broadband delivery to entire communities. Municipal Area Networks (MANs) are now a reality, and can be built economically from off-the-shelf, best-of-breed, standards-based components. Specialist tools are now available to share, manage and support these very large networks. Technology Partners has pulled together the very best, world-class MAN solutions and has the specialist experience to design, implement and support your municipal applications. Our solutions invariably comprise a city-wide "network of networks" – a complex infrastructure that maximises and enhances existing municipality fibre, copper and wireless resources by extending it with a full coverage, standards-based wireless mesh.

Mesh technology is the most economical way of providing network access to large numbers of fixed and mobile users over large areas, from campuses to entire cities and beyond.  Technology Partners delivers these networks from the world-wide market leader in wireless mesh: Tropos Networks.  With over 800 deployments in 40 countries, Tropos has a proven track record of delivering individual installations covering thousands of square kilometres, supporting thousands of concurrent users, downloading gigabytes of data per day.

The business case for delivering MAN solutions is proven and inescapable. Almost every application can justify the development of a city-wide network infrastructure on its own. Together, the logic is often overwhelming.

The economics are also dramatically enhanced by the ability to share the core infrastructure across simultaneous, mission critical applications. Each application runs in its own "virtual network", a totally isolated network partition with its own assigned bandwidth and Quality of Service (QoS) parameters. Security is implemented to each applications policies, and can be up to military grade. The technology enables this network virtualisation to be applied at all physical layers, from the copper LANs, through the fibre and wireless backbone, and down to each individual wired or wireless client.

Digital City application examples include Intelligent Transportation Systems, Public Safety Communications, Parking Meter Systems and Mobile Workforce Automation. Around the world, private/public partnerships have also allowed municipal networks to be shared for fixed and mobile Internet access, and Utility Smart Grid applications.

Technology Partners delivers Digital City solutions from best-of-breed next generation fibre and municipal wireless equipment vendors. Our fully-trained and knowledgeable staff can advise you on the best Digital City solution for your requirements.