Some of our first customers were state, city and town governments. Through years of experience, our engineers have built an intimate understanding of the challenges faced by IT staffs at the state and local levels. We develop wireless solutions connecting public servants in urban and rural areas that include historic buildings, difficult terrain and geographically dispersed sites.
Our cost-effective wireless solutions allow state and municipal governments to:
- Increase public safety by connecting police stations, enabling
video surveillance and
extending wireless coverage to remote areas - Improve the agility and response time of firefighters and medical personnel
- Provide Internet access to residents at libraries and other Wi-Fi hotspots
- Connect employees who are spread across a region and are responsible for delivering critical public services
- Enable data backup, voice over IP, community television and
high-definition video
Customer Stories
Some of our recent state and municipal projects include:
Town of Mashpee, Massachusetts
We eliminated the town’s high monthly costs related to frame relay networks while achieving full return on investment in less than a year. Working with the Mashpee’s IT team, we designed and deployed a number of robust and reliable networks:
- Connected multiple buildings, including schools, police and fire
headquarters,
public works and the library with primary Proxim point-to-multipoint 36Mbps
system and a backup Proxim multipoint system - Enabled 24/7 video surveillance at the town’s largest park with a
Proxim
point-to-point system - Implemented APs that allow fire headquarters and substations to
upload
critical data for ambulance services
Town of Tewksbury, Massachusetts
With a mostly fiber-based infrastructure, Tewksbury turned to DNS to
extend connectivity more cost-effectively with wireless. Our engineers
designed solutions that connect public servants to the Internet and run
essential, bandwidth-hungry applications such as Munis, camera
surveillance, water-meter readings and public-safety communications.
These solutions, which have built-in QoS, include:
- Expansion of the fiber network from police headquarters to the
central fire
station with a 42Mbps Motorola wireless backbone and a new tower - From the new tower, connection of police headquarters and two
water tanks
with eight other town offices and seven school buildings using a Proxim
point-to-multipoint system
Town of Nantucket, Massachusetts
Nantucket’s historic downtown made this project particularly challenging. To interconnect every municipal building across the island, we blended an antenna into the peak of the town’s landmark clock tower. We also replaced a failing 8Mbps wireless system that covered four sites with a Proxim MP11a 36Mbps solution that now connects all eight sites.
City of Malden, Massachusetts
Malden officials determined that extending the city’s network with fiber would take too long and incur high costs. As a result, our engineers created a mesh network to interconnect multiple municipal buildings featuring a Proxim point-to-multipoint solution.
Fall River Housing Authority, Massachusetts
With 18 state and federal housing developments throughout the city, the city’s housing authority spans three levels of government. We interconnected every site with Proxim MP11a and 900MHz products, enabling the expansion of the computerized tenant selection process and eliminating expensive leased lines.
