Lincoln, Nebraska Launches Municipal Wi-Fi

Lincoln, Nebraska has joined the ranks of cities offering free Wi-Fi access. In an announcement the City of Lincoln said Wi-Fi is available in public areas in and around the Haymarket and Railyard areas of the city.

Longer term the city has considerably more ambitious plans.

“Our long-term goal is to make Lincoln one of the most connected cities in the nation,” said Lincoln mayor Chris Beutler in the announcement, which noted that the rollout will occur in multiple phases. Lincoln’s deployment uses a cloud-based approach that moves some of the infrastructure underlying the Wi-Fi network to a data center operated by Ruckus Wireless.