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Wednesday update

September 7th, 2005
Posted by Paul Smith

Here in northern LA, it’s all rural communities, with very little to no telecom infrastructure to speak of. Wireless ISPs bring connectivity from tall 150-foot towers and multi-mile-long point-to-point wireless links. So in this situation with so many disparate towns and shelters spread throughout, WISPs are perfectly suited to connecting them with voice and Internet services.

Today, the crew here at Mac Dearman’s went out to put a pair of antennas in place for a new end to end link to Tallulah, and worked on getting the backbone network ready for the influx of computers and VoIP phones arriving starting tomorrow.

Things are very fluid here as you can imagine: shelters are being consolidated, so even when you find out where one is, it may get swallowed up by another one before you can get communications in place.

We’re trying to identify need in the hardest hit areas where evacuees are still sheltered. This is in areas near Baton Rogue, and in counties in Mississippi like Harrison and Pearl River. Calls are in to the emergency management administration in each location, more to come …

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