According to Fuller, the Connected Urban Development pilots helped to show how cities can accelerate their transition to sustainability, reduce CO2 emissions, increase energy efficiency, and decrease waste, all by harnessing the basic information and communications technology available in wireless networks.

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Harris makes communications products such as satellite and other wireless networks, transcommunication equipment, air control systems, and mobile radio network systems.

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They require communications over both fast, fixed networks and slow, or unreliable wireless links.

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The boom in data-intensive devices like smart phones and netbooks is straining wireless networks across the U.S. The Federal Communications Commission has pledged to make 500 megahertz of spectrum available for mobile broadband over the next decade.

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