New Wireless Network Unveiled

Much has been made of the OneCommunity Network in Cleveland as a milestone in communications infrastructure. It's a system currently geared to education and non-profit institutions that uses the city's fiber-optic lines for all kinds of data communication. Today, OneCommunity, formerly OneCleveland, will roll out the latest in communications technology to take root in Cleveland. It's called a wireless mesh, and it's designed to give residents, through data transmitters scattered across neighborhoods, a much wider umbrella for wireless access to the network - and the internet. Lev Gonick is vice president of Information Technology Services at Case Western Reserve University, which is a major partner in the project. He's also president of the board of OneCleveland. Gonick says the wireless mesh could actually shake up the status quo of internet service.