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TFA-Rice Wireless Mesh Deployment

Planned coverage map for the 4x4 build-out (4,000 users over 4 km^2) of the TFA-Rice Wireless Mesh Deployment in Southeast Houston.  The deployment provides high-speed Internet access to residents in one of the most economically disadvantaged neighborhoods of Houston.  Mesh nodes (indicated by red "pushpin" symbols) provide coverage for up to 100 homes in the immediate vicinity.  The nodes use omni-directional (blue) and directional (black) wireless links to multihop to the single 100 Mb/sec wireline gateway is on the east side of the neighborhood (marked by a "G").

For more information, go to http://tfa.rice.edu
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