A cure to citywide Wi-Fi woes?

A CURE TO CITYWIDE WI-FI WOES?
[SOURCE: C-Net|News.com, AUTHOR: Marguerite Reardon]
A new Wi-Fi start-up called Wavion Networks came out of stealth mode Monday and said it has developed technology to solve many of the problems big cities like Philadelphia and San Francisco face when deploying citywide Wi-Fi. Interest in citywide Wi-Fi networks has exploded in the past year, with cities including Philadelphia, San Francisco and Chicago planning to blanket their cities with wireless Internet access. But early deployments in cities, such as Tempe, Ariz., and St. Cloud, Fla., are resulting in contractors being required to deploy more access points than had been originally planned and subscribers being forced to attach signal boosters to their homes to get Internet access inside. San Jose, Calif.-based Wavion, which is backed by venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, says it has developed software and silicon that not only increase the transmission distance of a Wi-Fi signal, but also alleviate much of the signal loss so that fewer people need to deploy signal boosters.
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