Mesh Lights Up Toronto

Touting its 1.5-square-kilometer WiFi mesh system as the 'first municipal network to go live in a major metropolitan area in North America,' Toronto Hydro Telecom Inc. said today it has lit up Phase 1 of the project that is planned to eventually cover the entire city of Toronto. The network includes dense array of nodes (88 for the 1.5km first phase) and, upon completion sometime in 2008, will cover the entire 460 square kilometers of greater Toronto using BA 200 access points from BelAir.