City uses Linux, OSS for its free municipal Wi-Fi
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| One of the folks behind this project is is Federico Lazcano, an Electronics
| Engineer graduate from Rosario's UNR public university and who works at the
| IT management sector in the city's municipal government. He's a Linux user
| since the year 2000 -Debian GNU/Linux he remarks- and he points that they
| have used "Free Software exclusively" in Rosario's Wi-Fi roll-out, "from the
| access points to the main head-end router".
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| Lazcano shows the ingredients for this magic recipe: OpenWRT, OpenVPN,
| Wifidog and Debian GNU/Linux, among others
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41344
Last week:
California city connects with open-source networking
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| Reliance on open source has been inexpensive and stable, says IT
| manager for Madera, Calif.
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| In Madera's case, two Vyatta Inc. routers that run on the Debian
| GNU/Linux-based open-source operating system helped Wheeler consolidate
| routers in the city's data center last year. By eliminating eight Cisco
| routers that needed upgrading in order to accommodate additional traffic, he
| said he saved the city $16,000, spending about one-third of what he would
| have spent on the Cisco router upgrade.
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| In a more dramatic money-saving move, the city did a complete network upgrade
| to implement a voice-over-IP system based on Asterisk, an open-source PBX
| system from Digium Inc. in Huntsville, Ala. The Asterisk VoIP system cost
| about $120,000, whereas a Cisco system would have run about $400,000, he
| said.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=open_source&articleId=9027911&taxonomyId=88&intsrc=kc_top
http://tinyurl.com/32s83e
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