Wireless rules for Oregon courts January 21, 2008
High-speed connection links network and data facilities, supporting offices statewide.
Officials at the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD) ran into a problem several years ago when they began looking for a new home for the department's information technology staff and equipment.

Managers had to figure out how to connect the network operations center (NOC) with the state's data center and support more than 2,000 department employees at 70 locations statewide without requiring IT staff members to... Read More »

When Pigs Wi-Fi August 7, 2005
But Hermiston is actually a global leader of our Internet future. Today, this chunk of arid farm country appears to be the largest Wi-Fi hot spot in the world, with wireless highspeed Internet access available free for some 600 square miles. Most of that is in eastern Oregon, with some just across the border in southern Washington.

Driving along the road here, I used my laptop to get e-mail and download video - and you can do that while cruising at 70 miles per hour, mile after mile after mile, at a transmission speed several times as fast as a T-1 line...Read More »

An Oregon Trailblazer November 21, 2005
A Wi-Fi network for first responders
About a year ago, the 14,000 residents of rural Hermiston in eastern Oregon faced a frightening scenario: Nearly
four thousand tons of mustard, sarin, and other nerve gases were going to be incinerated just outside of town. Since
the Cold War, this remote farming community has been home to one-quarter of the nation's chemical weapons,
stored in concrete igloos at the nearby Umatilla Chemical Depot. The Pentagon decided to start destroying those
munitions in 2004. Local officials knew they needed to put together a fail-safe emergency plan and stand ready to
evacuate the area. But there was one problem: The community had no reliable communications network to call in its
200 would-be rescue workers...Read More »

The Wireless World June 7, 2004
Wireless isn't just for high-tech hubs anymore. We chose these cities and towns to show the variety of ways people are using this new technology Read More »

Biggest Wi-Fi Cloud Is in Rural Oregon
Entrepreneur Creates the World's Largest Wi-Fi Hotspot, Across 700 Miles in Rural Oregon

While cities around the country are battling over plans to offer free or cheap Internet access, this lonely
terrain is served by what is billed as the world's largest hotspot, a wireless cloud that stretches over 700
square miles of landscape so dry and desolate it could have been lifted from a cowboy tune....Read More »

Wi-fi cities spark hotspot debate
Ironically, one of the frontiers of wireless accessibility is found in a rural swathe of Oregon, which
is thought to have one of the world's largest wireless hotspots. Here a 600-square mile cloud of wireless connectivity provides free, high-speed internet coverage to schools, emergency services and residents alike.Read More »