Cisco helps ease blight of tourism on Orkney's Wi-Fi hotspot network thanks to £4.3m grant

Cisco helps ease blight of tourism on Orkney's Wi-Fi hotspot network thanks to £4.3m grant

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/27/cisco_trial_openroaming_tech_to_tackle_patchy_wifi_in_orkney/

Cisco has begun live trials of its OpenRoaming technology on the Orkney islands off the north coast of Scotland, intended to allow people to move more easily between Wi-Fi hotspots.

The trial is part of the UK government's £25m 5G RuralFirst testbeds programme. Last year it awarded a £4.3m grant to Switchzilla and the University of Strathclyde to deliver testbeds and trials of 5G in Orkney and the farmlands of Shropshire, England.