Orange County Taps Motorola to Improve Public Safety, Education, Civic Participation and Private-Sector Economic Development

Located 55 miles southwest of Washington, D.C. and 72 miles northwest of Richmond, Virginia, historical Orange County is a rural community with rolling landscapes and spectacular views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Faced with performance limitations and infrastructure inefficiencies, multiple Orange County government agencies collaborated to create a high-speed wireless network that would provide a county-wide Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN) for each designated government entity and public school, a Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) for inter-governmental connectivity and a shared infrastructure for Internet access. Advanced Network Systems, Inc., headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, was selected to provide design and implementation services for the county-wide project.