Looking forward the day the whole city(Ottawa) is wi-fi enabled...Some shopping centers and downtown buildings for now...if we want to stay ahead in the smart community program race, we will have some work to cause UBC is making a big jump ahead...ITBusiness.ca It was one of the first fruits of a project under way at the school to create a massive wireless local area network. Based on 802.11 or "WiFi" technology and running at data rates of 54 Mbps, the UBC wireless LAN may eventually include between 1,200 and 1,500 access points, serving 300 buildings and covering more than one million square metres