A group of senior managers from Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD) composed of Engr. Joseph Caballes, Engr. Ronnie Legaspi, Engr. Henry Mejor, Engr. Jose Singson, Jr., and Engr. Rommel Yu visited Tagbilaran city on August 14 and 15 to evaluate the city’s first wireless mesh network operated by Auza.Net for possible use in Cebu City to enable MCWD to link up all its wells, reservoir, pressure measurement points and other applications into a single IP based wireless network. Once implemented, the network will enable real time monitoring and control as well as make data collection very efficient removing the error prone manual reading and paper based data collection methods.
The group was accompanied by Juner Yaneza, of Raynetworks, Inc. (SkyPilot Philippine Partner), Gregg Tecson of Telepoint and Junrey Obe�ita of Auza.Net. The group evaluated the network performance at various nodes, including the longest link of 9 kilometers at Bolod, Panglao.
Tagbilaran has the largest wireless mesh network in the Visayas using the SyncMesh technology and equipment from SkyPilot Networks, Inc (www.skypilot.com). Deployment is very flexible and it is possible to have a private network between two or more offices that is secure and reliable at a very reasonable monthly cost. Using VLAN technology, the private network nodes act as a LAN switch allowing users to link up computers and applications between nodes seamlessly yet securely.