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MILPITAS,
CALIFORNIA, DEPLOYS METRO-SCALE WI-FI PUBLIC SAFETY NETWORK
FROM TROPOS NETWORKS |
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Silicon Valley City Builds Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Network to
Provide Field Officers Access to Broadband Applications Previously
Unavailable Outside of Police Headquarters |
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MILPITAS, CA, June 8, 2004
Tropos Networks, the leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced that the City of
Milpitas, California, has deployed a five square mile Wi-Fi
network for use by the city’s law enforcement officers.
For the first time, officers in this Bay Area suburb have in-vehicle
access to a variety of broadband applications including crime
databases, records management systems, and traffic & incident
video feeds. Access to these applications will soon be expanded
to include the city’s fleet of motorcycle patrols as well
as the more than 20 engines of the Milpitas Fire Department.
Future plans call for the expansion of the Wi-Fi network to
cover the entire 10 square mile inhabited footprint of the city. |
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“Effective communications in our public
safety agencies is of paramount importance to ensuring a safe
community,” said Bill Marion, Information Services Director
for the City of Milpitas. “Secure in-field access to critical
information is a key element of that effectiveness. The Tropos
solution allowed us to quickly deploy the broadband wireless
network that makes this access possible, with the lowest total
cost of ownership for the city. The sophisticated management
and scalability features in the Tropos release 3 make this the
ideal product for our city’s needs.” |
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“Milpitas is another crowning example
of how technology can improve the safety of a community,”
said Ron Sege, President and CEO of Tropos Networks. “The
simplicity and flexibility of the Tropos solution allowed this
cutting-edge city to rapidly deploy a communications network
with up to ten times the performance of traditional wireless
and cellular technologies at a fraction of the cost.”
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In this community of over 63,000 residents,
the police department will be the anchor tenant of the metro-scale
Wi-Fi network. Using Wi-Fi enabled data terminals installed
in each of the more than 30 patrol vehicles in the city’s
motor pool, officers will have access to broadband applications
previously unavailable over the low bandwidth CDPD connections
purchased by the city. Officers now have fully-secure in-field
access to IP-based applications such as the Cal Photo Database,
California Gang Database, and DMV records and photos, as well
as computer-aided dispatch (CAD) and records management systems
(RMS). Additionally, Milpitas Police uses the Tropos network
to link and access a network of video cameras monitoring high-traffic
areas throughout the city; officers can now assess transportation
snarls and traffic incidents from any patrol vehicle within
the Wi-Fi coverage area, improving the effectiveness of community
policing. In the near future, the Milpitas Fire Department will
use the same broadband Wi-Fi network to access hazardous materials
databases, incident video, and mobile dispatch applications.
Other municipal workers, such as building inspectors, traffic
engineers and code-enforcement officers, are expected to utilize
the network as well. |
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The infrastructure of the Milpitas network
is made up of Tropos 5110 Wi-Fi cells, an outdoor-optimized
and ruggedized node based on the 802.11 standard. The Tropos
5110 quickly and economically uses the intelligent Tropos Predictive
Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP) to provide pervasive coverage
over metro areas. The Tropos PWRP routes traffic wirelessly,
eliminating up to 95% of the wired backhaul associated with
traditional access point solutions. Tropos Wi-Fi cells form
a wireless mesh, dynamically routing traffic along the highest
throughput path to a wired gateway. This intelligent routing
negates effects of radio frequency (RF) interference, wired
backhaul failure and node failure. PWRP also scales to thousands
of nodes with the lowest routing overhead in the industry. Milpitas
is using a combination of city-owned fiber and fixed point-to-point
wireless technology for its backhaul connections. |
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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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