Wi-Fi Done Right

In December 2006 the City of Corpus Christi, Texas celebrated the completion of the City’s 147-square-mile multipurpose wireless broadband network at a PTI seminar.

Corpus Christi (population 293,000) began work on this innovative project in 2003 while investigating how to improve its meter-reading system. The project grew as City officials identified uses for municipal wireless networks and established partnerships with private industry to develop and bring it to fruition.

One outcome from the seminar is the PTI publication Wi-Fi Done Right: Experiences from the Field. It describes more than twenty Wi-Fi applications that Corpus Christi has tested, developed and/or implemented via its wireless network.

PTI served as the City’s primary consultant for the project. Build-out took 18 months to complete. Now the single largest municipal-scale wireless network anywhere in the world, its users include public and city personnel, public safety officers, building inspectors and other departments.

Corpus Christi also received a PTI Innovation Lab recognition, awarded for both completing the wireless network, and for sharing the results of the application testing and pilot demonstrations with other local governments as the network was being developed.

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01-31-2007