Cisco Systems, Inc. (www.cisco.com), announced that the City of Cleveland, Ohio is utilizing its wireless local area networking (WLAN) technology to transform the city's paper-based permitting and inspection workflow to a new on-line, wireless electronic process.

The city's deployment of an electronic permitting program for all city divisions and departments is the first application to take advantage of its new wireless network from Cisco. This highly efficient e-permitting and e-inspection program has allowed city workers to streamline the process of creating, issuing and tracking permits. What used to take days to complete, now takes hours.

The City of Cleveland has deployed Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the city that allows inspectors to connect wirelessly to their internal network. The mobile inspection staff can use the e-permitting and e-inspections applications to upload completed permit and inspection forms, reschedule inspections, and download new assignments from the hotspots.

This allows inspectors to remain in the field longer, reduce travel time and the need to return to their offices for new assignments or research. With this new solution, the interdepartmental permit review process is now automated with auditing and tracking capabilities.

Cisco is working collaboratively with strategic alliance partners Intel Corporation and IBM, and also OneCleveland, to deliver a proven and robust wireless network solution to the City of Cleveland.

"We are continually evaluating innovative technologies to help improve our productivity and efficiency of our city operations," said Chris Ronayne, chief of staff and chief development officer for the City of Cleveland.

Cisco's program with The City of Cleveland is part of the company's overall effort to provide state and local governments with highly secure networking solutions to help enable enhanced collaboration and productivity, while reducing operating costs.

"Cisco's market-leading wireless infrastructure continues to be a key enabling technology for public and private organizations worldwide," said Alan Cohen, senior director of marketing, Wireless Networking Business Unit, Cisco Systems.

Through this wireless deployment, Cisco is supporting OneCleveland, a nonprofit entity of community organizations providing community-based ultra broadband networking services to educational, governmental, research, arts, cultural, nonprofit and healthcare organizations in greater Cleveland.

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