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NEW
SYSTEM RELEASE 3 FROM TROPOS BRINGS UNRIVALED SCALABILITY,
SIMPLICITY AND RELIABILITY TO METRO-SCALE WI-FI |
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A Year of Proven Deployments Drives Delivery of Software
Release 3 of Tropos Sphere & Tropos Control, as well as
Innovative New Hardware Features |
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BALTIMORE, MD, June 8, 2004
Tropos Networks, the leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced release 3 of its
Wi-Fi cell system with groundbreaking new software and hardware
innovations for large Wi-Fi networks. The new system gives municipalities
and service providers critical functions to allow them to easily
build and operate large and flexible Wi-Fi networks. Specific
new features include virtually unlimited scalability with user
mobility, the industry’s first purpose-built metro-scale
broadband wireless management system, and key usability and
reliability features such as flexible and emergency power options.
These new capabilities announced today are based on the industry’s
most extensive experience in deploying metro-scale Wi-Fi systems. |
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“We are very happy with the performance
and features of Tropos Sphere and Tropos Control release 3 in
our network,” said Bill Marion, Information Services Director
for the City of Milpitas. “The scalability, deployment
ease and reliability of the Tropos Wi-Fi cell system were key
reasons why we chose Tropos to build the foundation of our city’s
broadband wireless network.” |
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“Release 3 of both the Tropos Sphere
network operating system and the Tropos Control element manager
contain important new functionality, further establishing Tropos
as the industry standard for metro-scale Wi-Fi, with the best
network scalability, manageability and ease of use in the business,”
said Ron Sege, President and CEO of Tropos Networks. “Additionally,
freshly available hardware features for the Tropos 5110 outdoor
Wi-Fi cell enable unrivaled network flexibility and resiliency.”
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The Tropos Wi-Fi cell system is composed
of the Tropos 5110 outdoor and Tropos 3110 indoor Wi-Fi cells,
the Tropos Sphere embedded network operating system with Predictive
Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP) and Tropos Control, a purpose-built
element management system for metro-scale Wi-Fi networks. The
Tropos PWRP routes traffic wirelessly, effectively eliminating
up to 95% of the wired backhaul requirements associated with
traditional access point, or hotspot, solutions. This intelligent
routing negates effects of radio frequency (RF) interference,
backhaul failure, and traffic loads by selecting the best performing
route to a backhaul connection. |
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Tropos Sphere release 3 enhancements focus
on greater scalability for metro-scale Wi-Fi networks. The key
new capability is cross subnet roaming which, for the first
time, enables virtually unlimited network scalability without
sacrificing user mobility. Cross subnet roaming enables session-persistent
client roaming across IP subnets, as well as re-clustering of
Tropos Wi-Fi cells across subnets, with total transparency to
clients. This important scalability feature allows simple network
design without being limited by the number of IP addresses available
in a subnet or the subnet assignments in the wired network. |
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Release 3 of Tropos Control, the industry’s
first purpose-built metro-scale Wi-Fi element management system,
provides greater scalability with proven support for very large
metro-scale networks of up to 1,000 nodes. The new release provides
a geographic street map view that accurately places each Wi-Fi
cell by its latitude and longitude and offers easy pan and zoom
viewing capability. Using tip tools and simple mouse clicks,
users can quickly look up a plethora of statistical information,
as well as network traffic levels and key RF information. Statistics
can be plotted in real-time and logged for export into analysis
tools such as standard spreadsheets. Tropos Control release
3 also enables automated and remote configuration and updates,
allowing network managers to schedule after-hours provisioning
and code changes to minimize impact to network performance.
It also allows pre-defined configuration profiles to be pushed
into the network at the click of a mouse so that, for example,
a multi-use network can be reserved for public safety users
in the event of an emergency. |
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A significant enhancement to the Tropos 5110
is a 3dB increase in receive sensitivity. Because client-to-node
transmission is the key to an effective Wi-Fi system, quality
receive sensitivity is essential to reducing node density while
maintaining ubiquitous coverage. The Tropos 5110’s industry-best
receive sensitivity, an unprecedented -98 dBm at 1 Mbps, translates
into a node density reduction of up to 20%. |
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The Tropos 5110’s new battery backup
option ensures network resiliency by providing 6 to 8 hours
of continued network operation in the event of a power failure.
This factory installed option includes a Li-ion battery and
charger internal to the existing Tropos 5110 form factor. |
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A flexible power option has also been introduced
for the Tropos 5110. This option provides a 200 mW output power
level, which provides additional deployment flexibility by allowing
customers to use directional and high gain omni antennas while
remaining within FCC transmission limits. |
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About Tropos Networks
Tropos Networks, Inc., is the 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 Sunnyvale, California. For more information, please visit
www.tropos.com,
call 408-331-6800 or write to info@tropos.com. |
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Tropos Networks, Tropos and PWRP 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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