Cisco Cisco 4404 Wireless LAN Controller Folheto
Customer Case Study
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to help with command structure and staging. Those images are 60-Megabyte files. There is just no
way that they would be able to do that over the cellular network.”
The traffic monitoring system has also allowed city officials to deliver on their promise to
continually strive to improve the lives of Gilroy citizens in significant ways.
“Our transportation section can now view traffic in real time and identify areas where we are
experiencing problems,” says Camp. “They can adjust the signals to fine tune traffic flow as
needed, which is a real improvement in customer service to the community.”
“Our population triples each year during the Garlic Festival, so you can imagine how many cars we
have traveling through the city,” adds Chulick. “The solution allows us to adjust signals in real time
to deal with that and offset any backups that occur.”
In addition, by linking the vehicle monitoring system
via the wireless mesh network, the city was able to
deploy the entire solution for one-fifth of the cost of
laying new fiber—a savings of US$80,000.
The downtown public Internet access has been well
received by citizens, shoppers, and tourists. The
number of users continues to grow, and city officials
believe the solution is already helping to stimulate
commerce and excitement downtown. The
downtown wireless network—as well as the mesh
segments at the fire stations—is also now being
used by mobile city workers, including city
inspectors, street maintenance employees, fire
marshals, and others. All of these employees can
now securely connect with city applications while
working away from the office, improving their
productivity and allowing them to devote more time
to city business and less time traveling to and from
the office.
“We have a number of inspectors and other mobile employees who collect information in the field,”
says Chulick. “If they need to offload their resources or reference some information to perform the
service in which they are engaged, they do not have to drive all the way back to City Hall. Instead,
they can just go to any of our wireless backhaul locations.”
Next Steps
Based on the success of the outdoor wireless solution, the City of Gilroy will be expanding the
wireless mesh network throughout 2007. The city plans to add several more traffic monitoring sites
and public safety mesh backhaul segments, as well as expand the free Internet access downtown.
By late 2007, city leaders expect to have more than 30 wireless mesh access points deployed. City
leaders are also continuing to look at new wireless initiatives, such as equipping employees with
wireless IP phones that will take advantage of the mesh network, and expanding wireless data
access for mobile employees. Now that the outdoor wireless network is in place, the City of Gilroy
also has a foundation that can support a broad range of other applications for mobile workers,
emergency responders, and citizens in the future.
PRODUCT LIST
Routing and Switching
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Cisco Catalyst
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3560 Series Switches
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Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Switch
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Cisco Integrated Services Routers
Security and VPN
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Cisco Security Monitoring Analysis &
Response System
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Cisco PIX
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500 Series Security Appliance
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CiscoSecure Access Control Server
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Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security
Appliance
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Cisco Security Agent
Voice and IP Communications
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Cisco Unified CallManager
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Cisco Unity Voice Mail
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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7900 Series
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Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7920 Series
Wireless
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Cisco 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controller
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Cisco Aironet 1100 Series Wireless Access
Points
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Cisco Aironet 1500 Series Wireless Access
Points