Although there are cities across the nation which have successfully supplied their residents with citywide wireless connections, the details of what works and what doesn’t are still being figured out. A new report called Municipal Broadband: Demystifying Wireless and Fiber-Optic Options has been released by the Institute of Local Self Reliance (ILSR) to assist wireless providers and city officials with sorting out the details.

The report says that despite the widespread confusion, we already do know the solution to successful municipal wi-fi: The foundation of this belief is that DSL and cable are not fast enough for forward-thinking cities. The rest of the twelve-page report (pdf) takes a look at how to create a citywide wireless system that combines these different tools.