Municipial WIFI — And it’s open sourced Mildred!

The city of Rosario, Argentina, the counties second largest, has implemented a free WIFI network system. In the early stages of deployment, the operation uses Linux open source software as a component of the system.

Why is open source critical to this discussion? In Rosario’s case it appears to be a matter of politics. Lacking the funds to populate a commercial solution and not wishing to trigger inquires for funding requests the IT team used an Open Source OS to overcome the issue. Which begs the question, how many other Muni WIFI solutions are ‘rolling their own’ out there?

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