The ISP plans to deploy APs from Lucent Technologies in apartment buildings, small businesses, and other similar locations. Some rural ISPs have taken this a step further. In some cases, a single AP is able to support 80 percent of the town. Sometimes a customer can communicate with the tower directly from a laptop if they are in the garden or near a window. More often, a directional antenna is mounted outside the customer's residence, then connected to an AP inside the home.
Users then add their choice of wired or wireless clients internally.