In New York, the public began to deploy Gigabit Wi-Fi

A few days ago the workers in New York, начали mount the first access point to the public network LinkNYC. It was first announced in November 2014. Installed hubs were designed as an updated replacement for the standard booths, who was able to use the upgraded infrastructure to provide public access to a gigabit Wi-Fi network, which should cover all of the Big Apple. The picture below shows the installation of a new cabin near a small Starbucks, near Manhattan. About 500 other such booths have appeared in the city in mid-July 2016. The test mode hubs will last about two weeks, after which anyone can use them to go online.




Total network will consist of more than 7,500 booths. After completing assembly and installation, hubs will provide the ability to charge via USB and surf on the internet and will also be equipped with two advertising screens 55 inches. Advertising on the display of the hub, according to calculation of city authorities will be able to bring more than $ 500 million over the next 12 years.

Also, they planned to use the bluetooth-beacons, which could potentially be used to track pedestrians and delivery of advertising. But that idea was abandoned after it was published and was not approved.

According to the November 2014 construction of the network was to begin "in the next year." The promise was contained by starting the installation in just a few days before the new year. The introduction of additional functionality, such as built-in tablet for surfing, map display, free telephone calls, may require a little more time. The accompanying brochures are marked as "to be added in the near future."

Source: geektimes.ru/post/268572/