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City of Aurora Police and Fire Deploy Wavelink Avalanche and Mobile Manager to Update Mobile Laptops on the Fly

Overview Immediately adjacent to Denver, the City of Aurora with nearly 300,000 residents is the second most populous city in the metro area and the third largest city in the state of Colorado. Aurora’s 300-vehicle fleet of police cars and fire trucks have been equipped with wireless laptop computers for several years now, providing critical information to police officers and firefighters on the streets in Aurora’s 144 square mile city limits.

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Publisher	Wavelink Corporation	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	March 2004	Downloads	30
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Laptops, Law and Government, Wireless LAN

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