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Ricochet Networks has reached an agreement with the city and county of Denver, CO, to incorporate Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and other broadband services into the city’s existing right-of-way contract with Ricochet.

This will allow Ricochet to provide “Wi-Fi in the Mile High” eventually to the entire footprint of the city and county of Denver. First to “go live” will be sections of the city’s Capitol Hill and Golden Triangle downtown neighborhoods, an area of approximately 2.5 square miles.

The new Ricochet “Wi-Fi in the Mile High” scalable mesh network will be powered by Wi-Fi Mesh, point-to-multipoint and wireless backhaul equipment from Proxim Wireless.

“This will be a great opportunity for us to show what is possible with a Proxim metropolitan wireless solution. Ricochet will be utilizing our dual-channel AP-4000-MR and MP.11 point-to-multipoint products to offer Wi-Fi services in Denver. Proxim’s end to end solution will provide a state-of-the-art network that is very robust with excellent performance” stated Pankaj Manglik, president and chief operating officer of Proxim Wireless.

“We are pleased that one of our hometown companies is expanding the wireless services available to Denver residents,” said Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper. “We appreciate Ricochet’s support in connecting the Mile High City to the world.”

The existing Ricochet network, a patented mesh micro cellular data network providing high-speed, wire-free Internet access, has been operating since 2002 in the Denver metropolitan areas and serves more than 6,000 municipal, residential, and business users.

Denver currently uses Ricochet wireless modems in many police mobile units and other city agencies, according to Darryn Zuehlke, director of the Denver Office of Telecommunications. “Denver prides itself on striving to deliver the best in city services to businesses and residents, and Ricochet will help us continue to do so,” said Zuehlke.

“We are honored that the city has placed its trust in us and expanded our contract to include the deployment of Wi-Fi, WiMAX, and other broadband technologies. We have been operating one of the world's largest wireless mesh networks for years in Denver. I can't think of a greater validation of Ricochet's commitment to our communities and users than to be chosen by the City of Denver to offer Wi-Fi in the Mile High Wireless Mesh,” said Judi Evans, president of Ricochet Networks. “The initial deployment in these two key downtown areas of Denver will serve as a model for futures expansion throughout the city and county.”