Firetide and Transnumeric deploy Wi-Fi mesh network in the village of Gordes, France
The delegation for regional planning and action supports new technology for community
Firetide, a leader in wireless mesh networking, together with its French partners Transnumeric and Xavier Dalloz Consulting, have announced the deployment of a Wi-Fi mesh network for the rural village of Gordes, in the Luberon region of France.
“The Village of Gordes has been named one of the most beautiful villages of France and receives more than 1.5 million visitors per year. Our 13 hotels combine to provide over 130,000 nights of accommodations to travellers annually,” said Maurice Chabert, mayor of Gordes. “Many of our guests are individual visitors with strong buying power who require high-speed Internet access. Our Ruralnet project allows the village of Gordes to satisfy this request.”
The Gordes network offers high speed alternatives to DSL in rural areas. Internet access is shared through access points connected to a Firetide wireless mesh network in an area covering one square kilometre. The entire medieval village can now access the Internet through Wi-Fi devices, whether fixed or mobile. A local information portal now uses the network to inform citizens, merchants, or visitors of cultural events, hotels, restaurants, and arts and crafts.
The Gordes network, the first such deployment in France, was initiated by The Delegation for Regional Planning and Action (DATAR), a government service that steers local management for economic change.
“The Gordes deployment is part of French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s call for projects providing high-speed access and services for the territories.” said Alain Ducass, chief digital country planning office in DATAR, a Prime minister service. “The wireless Internet access that Gordes has acquired with the Firetide mesh network will revitalise rural zones, benefit regional planning and increase tourism.”
Firetide HotPort high performance mesh networks provide a high capacity, self-healing wireless mesh backbone for outdoor and indoor networks. The HotPort system was designed for maximum performance, scalability and ease of use and allows standard Ethernet devices to be connected to the mesh, creating secure wireless video, voice and data networks. Firetide mesh networks are ideal for municipalities, universities, hotels, airports, warehouses and other environments where structured wiring or other network solutions are too difficult or costly to install.
“Firetide’s HotPort mesh network was designed to provide an entire community with services for voice and data access,” said Bo Larsson, CEO of Firetide. “The success of this first deployment demonstrates that it can be a fast and easy solution for 10,000 more French villages currently without high speed Internet access.”
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