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http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/1364731

Wi-Fi Goes to School
Brian Morrissey

PHILADELPHIA -- The numbers are undeniably big: 12,000 schools, 87,000 faculty and administration, and over 1 million students. But Kevin Mazzatta, a wireless client solutions executive at IBM (NYSE:IBM), counters with his own numbers: hundreds of offices dotting the globe, 325,000 employees, and tens of thousands of mobile workers like himself. If there ever was a match for the unwieldy New York City school system, IBM is it. Mazzatta and IBM have taken on the task of outfitting New York City's schools with 802.11b capabilities....

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