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FORMER
HUD SECRETARY AND VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JACK KEMP TO
HEAD TROPOS NETWORKS ADVISORY BOARD |
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Washington Veteran to Help Tropos Promote Its Cost-Effective,
Industry-Leading Metro Wi-Fi Solution |
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SAN MATEO, CA, April 15, 2004
Tropos Networks, a leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced that Jack Kemp will
chair the company’s Advisory Board. Mr. Kemp currently
serves on the Boards of several leading technology companies,
including Oracle, InPhonic, EZGov, and SmartCOP. He will take
an active role with Tropos, assisting in high-level sales and
business development activities. |
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“The tremendous price-performance and
ease of use of Tropos metro-scale Wi-Fi products represents
an enormous opportunity for our nation’s cities and towns,”
said Mr. Kemp. “Metro-scale broadband will significantly
improve public safety by bringing broadband security applications
such as crime databases and video surveillance to police officers
on the street. Additionally, the Tropos solution will enhance
economic development in both urban and small town areas throughout
the country.” |
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“We are extremely excited to have Jack’s
involvement with our company,” said Ron Sege, Tropos Networks
President and CEO. “He will enhance the tremendous momentum
developing behind Metro-Scale Wi-Fi, as prospective customers
increasingly become aware of the ease of deployment and low
cost to own and operate these networks.”
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Mr. Kemp is co-founder of Empower America,
a non-profit organization dedicated to the exploration of public
policy solutions that foster economic growth, individual responsibility,
free trade, and free enterprise. In addition, Mr. Kemp currently
serves as Chairman of the Board of FreeMarket Global, a global
merchant banking, trading and investment company, Founder of
Kemp Partners, a strategic consulting firm, and on the Board
of Directors of Habitat for Humanity, for whom he is Chairman
of the More Than Houses campaign. |
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Previously, Mr. Kemp was elected to nine
terms in the United States House of Representatives, from Western
New York. He served in the Cabinet of President George H. W.
Bush as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a post which
he held for four years. In 1996, the Republican Party named
Mr. Kemp its vice-presidential candidate, with Senator Bob Dole. |
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Prior to Mr. Kemp’s career in public
service, he was a professional football quarterback. His football
career spanned 13 years, mostly with the Buffalo Bills and San
Diego Chargers. He led the Bills to two AFL championships and,
in 1965, was awarded the AFL's Most Valuable Player Award. Additionally,
he co-founded the AFL Players Association, to which he was elected
president five times. |
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Tropos products deliver city-wide mobile
broadband access via a scalable, reliable and secure Wi-Fi infrastructure.
The heart of the Tropos solution is a new class of product called
a Wi-Fi cell, which layers patented routing intelligence on
top of 802.11 standard Wi-Fi cells to form an economical, self-configuring
and self-healing wireless broadband data network that forwards
client data through a mesh along the highest throughput path
to a wired network. The result is a high performance, large
scale Wi-Fi deployment that costs a fraction of competing broadband
systems to own and to operate. A Tropos system can be deployed
at a multi-square-mile scale in a matter of days, providing
an outdoor mobile broadband experience that is indistinguishable
from indoor wireless and wired experiences. |
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About Tropos Networks
Tropos Networks, Inc., is a leading supplier of systems used
to build metro-scale, outdoor Wi-Fi networks. Tropos unique
Wi-Fi cells, along with the first element manager to control
large Wi-Fi networks, enable public agencies and service providers
to deliver ubiquitous, city-wide mobile broadband to users in
any locale. These carrier-class IP networks are low cost and
easy to install and scale. The Tropos cellular mesh architecture
and use of optimized open-standard radios dramatically reduce
the need for wired backhaul while eliminating expensive proprietary
clients and complex software. Using the patented Predictive
Wireless Routing Protocol™, Tropos solutions deliver maximum
bandwidth to the user regardless of conditions, at unprecedented
Wi-Fi network scale. Tropos Networks is headquartered in San
Mateo, California. For more information, please visit www.tropos.com,
call 650-286-4250 or write to info@tropos.com. |
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Tropos Networks and Tropos are trademarks
of Tropos Networks, Inc. All other brand or product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder(s). |
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