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Although not a WiMax system, it might come close.

Six Chicago area communities have deployed a regional mobile broadband network using BreezeACCESS 900 system to support fixed and mobile public safety applications for crime and fire fighting. It uses only fourteen base stations to cover the entire area.

Connecting approximately 50 police cars and 15 fire vehicles, the network is used for dispatch functions, while enabling mobile access to central databases such as the Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV) records. Also providing remote access to several video surveillance cameras.

Network deployment began last year and has grown incrementally to include additional local jurisdictions.

“Being adjacent to Chicago has its advantages, but it also means we need big city policing on a small city budget," noted Mark Wilkans, lieutenant of the Hodgkins Police Department and chair of the technical subcommittee of the Area-wide Law Enforcement Radio Terminal System (ALERTS) users group, a statewide body focused on officer use of mobile technologies.

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chicago , broadband wireless , dailywireless , 900 mhz