Intel imagines wireless Cleveland

Chip maker offers its help in creating a cutting-edge regional network

Thursday, April 07, 2005

Henry J. Gomez

Plain Dealer Reporter

Cleveland rarely tops the list of information-technology trendsetters.

 

But by this time next year, police could be filing reports from the coffee shop.

 

Building inspectors might be able to complete a walk-through with a few simple clicks.

 

Officials from Intel Corp., the Silicon Valley computer chip-making giant, visited the rust belt this week to schmooze with politicians and local technology leaders about collaborations that could make Northeast Ohio one of the most wireless regions in the country. Intel has tapped Greater Cleveland to join Philadelphia and Corpus Christi, Texas, as the U.S. participants in its Digital Cities Initiative.

 

The project offers the possibility of Intel funding and professional support to regions looking to enhance their wireless communications.

 

Representatives from Intel presented their plans to Mayor Jane Campbell at a Wednesday breakfast. Among the possibilities discussed were mobile technology for building inspections and utility-meter readings, a digitally reformed public safety department and a "wireless cloud" that eventually could hover over all of Northeast Ohio.

 

For Cleveland, it's a chance to promote a business-friendly atmosphere.

 

More at Cleveland.com

Cleveland rarely tops the list of information-technology trendsetters.

 

Excuse me?  When it comes to public networking innovation, Cleveland has some history of which to boast:

 

One of three US cities....maybe Cleveland can leverage Intel to advertise the partnership with the city

This article confuses me.  Is Intel giving something away for free to Cleveland?

case western also boasts the first ever remote access computer (aka modem)

good grief..i recall those freenets.  There was one in Youngstown, too, and I think Cincy and Dayton...

Cleveland up for Intel's Worldwide Digital City award

By SHANNON PETTYPIECE

 

July 04. 2005 6:01AM

 

 

 

Cleveland will find out this month if efforts to prove its worth as a high-tech town will be rewarded with Intel Corp.'s Worldwide Digital City designation.

 

Such a coup would launch Cleveland and a handful of other cities as showcases of cutting-edge technology and make them potential magnets for millions of dollars in support for technology projects and in-kind donations from technology giants such as Intel, IBM and Cisco Systems Inc.

 

If selected, the city expects an initial investment from Intel of up to $500,000, which would be used to implement high-tech projects in the region, said Chris Ronayne, chief of staff for Mayor Jane Campbell.

 

"Intel is interested in bringing several hundred thousand dollars to the equation. With long-term wider applications, that initial investment could multiply into the millions," Mr. Ronayne said.

 

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4447924/Cleveland-up-for-Intel-s.html

 

You know for as much as I have whined about the quiet crisis....and to use a sports analogy in our sports crazy town....Its like the Quiet Crisis came out to signal it was the two minute warning for our community.  Since then it seems like we have been able accomplish more than we could have ever hoped.

 

Do you think back in 1999 (dot com heaven) in a few years we would be considered one of the top digital cities in the nation, maybe the world?

 

stepping off the soapbox...

well case western won the award like two years ago or something

Yeah, someone really lit a fire under our asses.  Hopefully some of this will pay off in jobs and community development.

From the 7/13/05 PD:

 

 

Digital' bill goes at snail's pace

Questions slow down city's wireless project

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Henry J. Gomez

Plain Dealer Reporter

 

Legislation that would enable Cleveland to team with computer chip-maker Intel Corp. on a wireless makeover of city departments is moving slower than Mayor Jane Campbell would like.

 

City Council had been expected to vote today on whether to give $200,000 to OneCleveland, a nonprofit provider of ultra-broadband Internet that is trying to entice Intel to bring its Digital Cities Initiative full force to Northeast Ohio.

 

As of Tuesday afternoon it had not been placed on the agenda, and Council President Frank Jackson said he needed more information from OneCleveland before bringing the legislation to a vote. A spokeswoman for Jackson's mayoral campaign said late Tuesday that the council president had made a last-minute decision to add it to today's agenda.

 

Jackson said his questions related mainly to how the money would be used. The $200,000 is expected to go toward the project's $1.5 million first phase, which involves converting municipal offices such as the building inspections and water department to mobile technology.

 

Campbell's camp expressed concern over Jackson's 11th-hour questions on the legislation, which was introduced June 6. Jackson cast it as a case of being thorough.

 

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/112125436197690.xml&coll=2

 

Hmmm Cleveland politics standing in the way of the city progressing.

This is a troubling new development.....:-(

Towards the end:

 

For Intel's part, the Silicon Valley technology giant isn't worried about the local political climate, said Paul Butcher, the company's marketing manager for state and local government.

 

"Intel remains committed to Cleveland," Butcher said. "The intricacies of doing something like this are numerous, the challenges and whatnot. And we're comfortable with that."

 

 

It seems that the story line could have been "Intel comfortable with City's progress on tech initiative".  But I guess that is just being niave.

From the 7/14/05 PD:

 

 

Grant OK puts city in digital race

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Henry J. Gomez

Plain Dealer Reporter

 

The ball is now in Intel's court after Cleveland City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a $200,000 grant toward the Silicon Valley computer chip maker's wireless makeover of Northeast Ohio.

 

Proponents say that $200,000 could be a prelude to "millions" more in financing and a Worldwide Digital Cities award from Intel Corp., which is keeping quiet about its plans here.

 

"We turned a corner on technology today," said Chris Ronayne, chief of staff for Mayor Jane Campbell. "This sends the signal we needed to send Intel toward bringing a Digital Cities designation."

 

While the city awaits word from Intel, the $200,000 grant also clears the launch of several e-government applications, said OneCleveland President Scot Rourke. His nonprofit firm, which offers ultra-broadband network service, has been working with Intel since April to implement the programs.

 

Department by department, city workers will be enabled to file reports from the field, using wireless mobile devices that will tap into the ultra-broadband fiber underground.

 

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/1121338674267850.xml&coll=2

 

anyone have any ideas on what could be in store?

Digital internet payphones?  (with some strong filtering)

Huge advertising campaign, where Intel chips rescue people from the rust belt?

City of Cleveland Utilizes Cisco Wireless Technology to Deliver Innovative e-Permitting Process; Mobile Permit Project Reduces City Inspection Cycle Times and Costs, While Improving Worker Productivity and Efficiency

 

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 18, 2005--Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) today announced that the City of Cleveland, Ohio is utilizing its wireless local area networking (WLAN) technology to transform the city's paper-based permitting and inspection workflow to a new on-line, wireless electronic process.

 

The city's deployment of an electronic permitting program for all city divisions and departments is the first application to take advantage of its new wireless network from Cisco. This highly efficient e-permitting and e-inspection program has allowed city workers to streamline the process of creating, issuing and tracking permits. What used to take days to complete, now takes hours.

 

The City of Cleveland has deployed Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the city that allows inspectors to connect wirelessly to their internal network. The mobile inspection staff can use the e-permitting and e-inspections applications to upload completed permit and inspection forms, reschedule inspections, and download new assignments from the hotspots. This allows inspectors to remain in the field longer, reduce travel time and the need to return to their offices for new assignments or research. With this new solution, the interdepartmental permit review process is now automated with auditing and tracking capabilities. Mobile city inspectors can access a complete permit/violation history on-line. The City's former paper-based permit and inspection process was labor intensive and time-consuming, requiring inspectors to manually check the permit or inspection status.

 

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/City+of+Cleveland+Utilizes+Cisco+Wireless+Technology+to+Deliver...-a0135431000

 

i hope this isnt a push somehow to privatize and destory onecleveland and free local internet access is it?

Hot off the presses (well, Cleveland.com)

11:58 a.m.

 

Intel Corp. pledged Thursday to work with Cleveland and surrounding communities to deliver widespread wireless access to anyone from corporate honchos to average folks who carry their laptops eveywhere.

 

The Silicon Valley computer chip-maker lauded Greater Cleveland as one of three worldwide technology pioneers.

 

The company presented Mayor Jane Campbell with a plaque and painted a picture of a Northeast Ohio covered by a giant, $4 million "wireless cloud." Money from Intel, other national corporate giants and local governments and companies will help build the wireless network.

 

 

Just to get a bit a head of myself, could this be the begining of what could turn into a midwest hub for IT/software/computer companies?  It looks like Intel and Cisco have a stake in OneCleveland now.

 

Intel ponies up $12M in assistance

 

By BRANDON GLENN

 

11:38 am, August 18, 2005

 

The city of Cleveland expects to receive assistance valued at nearly $12 million over three years from computer chip maker Intel Corp. in an initiative that would allow city workers to use wireless technology to file reports from the field.

 

Most of the funding would go toward marketing the effort, training users and supporting the wireless service, Mayor Jane Campbell said at a press conference this morning at Playhouse Square. Others assisting in the project's funding include the city, nonprofit OneCleveland, network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp.

 

http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050818/FREE/50818001/1008

With gas prices getting expensive, this could save Cleveland a ton of money by saving city workers from having to go back and forth to the office to file reports. That's another advantage this could give the city.

 

KJP

great news to end the week on, some real positive steps towards becoming a tech hub.  we'll be watching this one for sure. the CVB and Greater Cleveland partnership REALLY need to play this sort of thing up to tech companies looking for a home.

Anyone else notice that news about cleveland goes on good and bad streaks as often as the Indians go on winning and losing streaks?

 

Lets hope this good news streak breaks a record

yeah that is the story of the area... we'll have a week where officemax leaves, and then in the same week, be designated a digital city by Intel.  Fortune changes around here about as often as the weather  :-D

Forecast calls for wireless NE Ohio

Friday, August 19, 2005

Henry J. Gomez

Plain Dealer Reporter

 

The Silicon Valley computer chip-maker lauded Greater Cleveland as one of three worldwide technology pioneers Thursday, presenting Mayor Jane Campbell with a plaque and kicking off a partnership that will develop and market the region as a digital hotbed filled with "wireless clouds" to promote faster computer networking for government, businesses and residents.

 

More at www.cleveland.com

From the 10/7/05 PD:

 

 

Cleveland pushes hard to expand Wi-Fi world

Friday, October 07, 2005

Henry J. Gomez

Plain Dealer Reporter

 

As wireless Internet projects take shape in Philadelphia and San Francisco, the question has to be asked.

 

What about Greater Cleveland?

 

You know, the region recently labeled one of a select group of Worldwide Digital Communities. The region where colleges and hospitals can share information over a secure, ultra-broadband network. The region where building inspectors can file reports on PalmPilots.

 

But for now, it appears Northeast Ohio will be the bridesmaid and not the bride, sharing consultants with cities such as San Francisco before launching a widespread Wi-Fi network of its own.

 

Such a network could pipe fast and affordable - if not free - wireless Internet into homes and businesses. Such a network also could establish public access points throughout the region, beyond the coffee shops, libraries and other locations already offering free Wi-Fi.

 

"Rest assured we are working on it here," said Scot Rourke, president of OneCleveland, the nonprofit that has turned unused fiber-optic rings into gigabit-speed chariots of communication for institutes such as Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art.

 

 

http://www.cleveland.com/business/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/business/1128678086307920.xml&coll=2

 

i'm glad to see the peedee jumped right on this latest news from philly. clev cant afford to let the latecomers to muni wifi take over the lead!

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Potentially bigger partners?  Microsoft?

google?

Hint:  "beep beep"

 

However, it won't happen, since some IDIOT - as I've been trying to find out who it is  - didn't think the city & some tech leaders were/are serious about attracting this division of a media giant.

^dumbass moment,  all I can think about with that hint is the Roadrunner, but that is more of a "neep!  neep!"

Hint:  "beep beep"

 

However, it won't happen, since some IDIOT - as I've been trying to find out who it is  - didn't think the city & some tech leaders were/are serious about attracting this division of a media giant.

 

general motors is getting out of the auto making game to deliver high quality wifi access to the world

^Ha.

 

Nextel?

^Herbie the Love Bug?

^Donna Summer?

^Donna Summer?

 

^Herbie the Love Bug?

^Ha.

 

Nextel?

 

No to all of the above.  Oh well I might as well tell it.  Well I've been working on a project to bring TW Cable corporate head quarters AND operations to Cleveland.  This also would have met and upgrade in services from a marketing standpoint to the Cleveland Market.  Once the Adelphia sale is complete, NEO (akron is already on TWC) will be the 2nd largest TW market behind NYC Metro, ahead of LA and Houston. 

In addition, TW had to do a lot of cuts. 

 

the Detroit, market is horrible and we have significant sales/marketing staffs (of various divisions there) which combined with Chicago (another city with a huge cross brand sales/market staff) where cost are running high, could easily be relocated to Cleveland as the market and our diversification into a "major media market" add to that that CNN/Turner's programming has moved away from ATL and that cities problems are now starting to take affect of operations there and Cleveland would be the perfect place to make the relocation of the operations portion of that company and still have programming in NYC. 

 

All this made the city attractive for TW to BUILD A BRAND NEW BUILDING with a HOTEL, RETAIL AND RESIDENTIAL component.  aka "Time Warner Centre @ (see options below) - Cleveland, Ohio"

a) Gateway(say goodbye to buildings on ONtario to E. 6 & from Prospect to High St. including the parking lots)

b) Playhouse Square (14 street from Euclid to Carneige gets a huge upgrade)

b1) Playhouse Square (retrofit the Halle Garage)

b2) Playhouse Square (16/17 street and Carneige)

b3) Playhouse Square (17/Payne)

b4) Playhouse Square (18/Payne)

c)  Playhouse Square (Rockwell in the late teens/early)

d)  Public Square (This would have no retail)  but someone wants to "cock block"!  This could be one hell of a "signature building"

 

This would have brought over 6k FULL TIME TW employees to downtown cleveland!  This figure does not include the spin of jobs which would be created because of this development.

 

I can't tell you how much hard work i've done.....just to have some idiot fuck it all up! :x :x :x

 

However, I'm on plan "B", trying still to atleast get TWC Corp, detroit and chitown jobs here.

 

Maybe this isn't meant to be since most of this has been done because a) I love cleveland b) i hate detroit & ATL c) i'm still pissed that SOHIO screwed me over by relocating to Chi.  Bringing TW into Cleveland BIGTIME would have made me feel alot better and help our regional economy!

 

I'm so depressed

 

Edit:  to note, that someone did inquire about building over the parking garages at TowerCity, but I don't like that location.

WOW. 

yeooow. way to fight the good fight mts! i guessed it right away, but i came to this thread to late.

 

if it's any consolation, chicago did not take the sohio headquarters away....sunbury, england did. i know--ugh.

 

ps -- in due time your complete moron screwup needs outed.

 

 

(MY 2 sense) It would nice!, I feel the same way about BP. Keep up the good.

holy crap thats depressing, was this a local person or one of them at TWC?

holy crap thats depressing, was this a local person or one of them at TWC?

 

A LOCAL JACKASS! 

 

HELL I'VE HAD PARSONS HERE (THREE TIMES EATING CLEVELAND SHIT OUTTA MY HANDS!) 

...THREE BOARD MEMBERS... THANKS CLEVELAND

 

I have a few questions:

 

1. To what city is the TWC headquarters going to go?

2. Are you confident that some TWC operations can be brought here?

3. If so, roughly how many jobs are we talking about?

4. Would they want a vertical building for offices, or a horizontal building for operations like warehousing, equipment, servicing etc.?

5. Lastly, if this idiot wronged you, then why keep it a secret? If you'd like to speak off the record, send me a private message. I will keep your identity hidden in how I would write an article, as Sun Newspapers' downtown Cleveland beat reporter.

 

Those who hold back the city should be made publicly accountable for their actions (or lack thereof).

I have a few questions:

 

1. To what city is the TWC headquarters going to go?

2. Are you confident that some TWC operations can be brought here?

3. If so, roughly how many jobs are we talking about?

4. Would they want a vertical building for offices, or a horizontal building for operations like warehousing, equipment, servicing etc.?

5. Lastly, if this idiot wronged you, then why keep it a secret? If you'd like to speak off the record, send me a private message. I will keep your identity hidden in how I would write an article, as Sun Newspapers' downtown Cleveland beat reporter.

 

Those who hold back the city should be made publicly accountable for their actions (or lack thereof).

 

1 - To NYC, but backoff operations WILL MOVE to Charlotte, NY (don't even get me started on this)  :x  :x

2 - Not sure

3 - TWC corporate would be around 270

4 - If its just cable HQ we would look for class A office space and ask for naming rights to a building.  Since aldephia already has its Cleveland HQ on 34/Lakeside.  I still think a retrofit of the Halle Garage is the best bet.

5 - I am not privy to that as IR, Corp. Respo., Mergs/Aqu., Legal & Busi. Affais along w/the Chairs office keep me out of the loop on some things for legal reasons, since I'm "exec. corp. comm, Intergrated mark & special project" and shouldn't interact with these area's or the media (you know the "church vs. state" BS).  but im pissed and they (TW) have no idea who i am on this board.

what in the???  so, MTS, you're basically positive that this big deal is dead?  did city people know about it?  Namely, econ. development, the mayor, etc.  Was this an unexpected screw-up or a business decision that was made over time?  How would this have related to AOL-TW's new headquarters at Columbus Circle?  This is something that has to be built in addition to that?

 

This is all pretty mind-boggling to me.

 

And to think, if we get 270 jobs out of this, it will be celebrated as a huge success!

what in the???  so, MTS, you're basically positive that this big deal is dead?  did city people know about it?  Namely, econ. development, the mayor, etc.  Was this an unexpected screw-up or a business decision that was made over time?  How would this have related to AOL-TW's new headquarters at Columbus Circle?  This is something that has to be built in addition to that?

 

This is all pretty mind-boggling to me.

 

And to think, if we get 270 jobs out of this, it will be celebrated as a huge success!

 

not entirely, its just fucking frustrating.  campbell adminstration was well aware via a commerical real estate brokerage firm located in cleveland, which remain nameless. 

 

No, no screw up and the company is TimeWarner not AOL-TimeWarner (saying that leaves a bad taste in my mouth similar to the one I get when I am forced to say "british petroleum").  Just that there has to be over ONE BILLION dollars of cost.  I'm sure to help, when they get my salary as i'll probably be job eliminated!  :finger2:  but what the hell!

 

Corporate is the only thing that is completely located in the TWC.  The building really wasn't built for TW to "consolidate" its businesses, TW's division have so many offices (leased and owned) in NYC its crazy.  In addition there is plenty of commercial space in the north tower at TWC. 

 

When we sold (majority interest in) Warner Bros. Records, the space they were to occupy in the TWC has not fully be reassigned.  Although moving CNN from its NY HQ in Penn Station to TWC help.  Outside of Time Warner Corporate, CNN, and small group of turner broadcast sales people, I can easily think of 6 buldings TW divisions are located in between 50 street and 58 street between eight avenue and sixth avenue. Time Inc., New Line, AOL , Warner Bros. (is huge and DC, WB TV Network, WB).  HBO & TW Cable of NYC (two bldgs.) are also in their own buildings.  Time Warner Cable HQ is in CT.

 

To give you some idea, almost the entire the publishing division in NYC is located in "the time & life bldg.", yet the staff is so large that some magazines are in other building where they have naming rights, Sports Illustrated was next door to the T&L bldg, in the SI Building, soon to be the Essence Magazine world HQ, Entertainment Weekly is based in the paramount bldg., This Old House and AMEX publishing & the X gen media mags are all located in other bldgs. but do not have naming rights.

 

The other reason im upset about this is I wanted to bring TIME Magazine back home to Cleveland.  As some of you may know TIME Magazine was born in Cleveland, Ohio.

So, what possibilities are still on the table?  Are you still working on this or is it a done deal?

 

I have a good friend who writes for This Old House...

So, what possibilities are still on the table?  Are you still working on this or is it a done deal?

 

I have a good friend who writes for This Old House...

 

basically what ive said below, but its not in my hands, I put together the best possible package.  I took on this "project" just because I loved Cleveland and I really really really really (is it clear) HATE the person who was suppose to be my boss, but has no fucking clue about media communications/public affairs/publicy strategies/intergrated marketing in the year 2006.  and he been with the company for many years, but I run the fucking department he tried to take the glory, and this bitch wasn't havin' nun of that!  so I complained to my "mentor" who happen's to be "da man" which gave me this opportunity to create a group that can intergrate corp. communications/publicity, marketing and leverage it with all time warner brands and do some special projects...ie like project "north coast"

Any news regarding anything here, or does Cleveland remain wireless-less?

(Except for the the few people who work in City hall with their fancy internet phones and data machines)

Any news regarding anything here, or does Cleveland remain wireless-less?

(Except for the the few people who work in City hall with their fancy internet phones and data machines)

 

I don't really understand the big deal about this because for the most part Cleveland's already wireless.

 

Anyone with a half-decent wireless card can pick up non-private wireless networks. I get into Case's all the time.

Case, nonprofit set to spin wireless web

$1M project will create cloud of Internet accessibility over University Circle area

 

By BRANDON GLENN

 

6:00 am, August 28, 2006

 

The “wireless cloud” long envisioned to descend over Cleveland looks closer to becoming a reality — but it will begin with a baby step.

 

Case Western Reserve University, nonprofit ultrabroadband provider OneCommunity and other partners have committed to invest more than $1 million toward the creation of a so-called wireless “mesh” network in a five-square-mile area around University Circle. In coming years, the network could expand across the city.

 

A wireless mesh network differs from typical Wi-Fi Internet access in a number of ways. Wi-Fi typically works by installing a transmitter that serves a limited coverage area known as a “hot spot.” By contrast, a mesh network is decentralized and consists of numerous transmitters, essentially creating one large, interconnected hot spot for Internet access.

 

Crain’s Cleveland Business learned about the plans for the mesh network by obtaining a document labeled “Presentation For City Council and City Hall” that describes the project. One of the project’s key players, Lev Gonick, Case’s vice president of information technology, declined comment, aside from saying, “This is one of the most important projects in the nation.”

 

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20060828/SUB/60825022&template=printart