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NTT
COMMUNICATIONS SELECTS TROPOS NETWORKS FOR UNWIRING MILITARY
BASES, CITIES AND RURAL AREAS OF JAPAN |
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Tropos Metro-Scale
Wi-Fi Mesh Solution Chosen After Successful Trial in Tokyo
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SUNNYVALE, CA - March 9, 2005
-- Tropos Networks, the leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks, today announced that its family
of MetroMesh routers and management software is now available
in Japan through Sumitomo Densetsu. Tropos and Sumitomo Densetsu,
working with VR Techno Center, scored their first successes
in Shirakawa Village and Flower Festival Commemorative Park,
both located in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. |
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NTT Com identified Wi-Fi mesh technology
as a key technology because of its potential to provide a fast,
cost-effective communications infrastructure that is easy to
deploy, expand and operate. NTT Com recently conducted a field
trial in Tokyo using Tropos MetroMesh routers and the Tropos
Control element manager. Tropos was selected for use in the
Iwakuni Air Station network based on successfully completing
the trial. |
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"We are very pleased with the performance
of the Tropos MetroMesh technology, even under difficult conditions
in Tokyo," said Mr. Satoshi Baba, Director, Ubiquitous Service
Department of NTT Com. "Iwakuni Air Base is the first of what
we expect will be many commercial deployments, including other
military bases, cities and rural parts of Japan." |
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"We are delighted to have NTT Com as a partner
for metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh in Japan," said Mr. Ron Sege, president
and CEO of Tropos. "Japan is both a broadband society and a
very mobile one, so we expect it to be a great market for mobile
wireless broadband." |
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Because Iwakuni Air Station is a U.S. base
in Japan, traditional telecommunications infrastructure such
as DSL and fiber-to-the-home services are not available. To
most quickly and cost-effectively address this situation, NTT
Com chose a metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network to provide broadband
Internet service. The Wi-Fi mesh network will offer 1+ Mbps
performance throughout the base, not only inside buildings but
also in the outdoor areas. The deployment is scheduled go live
in the third quarter of 2005. |
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During the trial and while planning the Iwakuni
installation, NTT Com worked closely with Nissho Electronics,
one of Japan's leading distributors of IT products and services.
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The Iwakuni Air Station Wi-Fi network will
use Tropos Networks' outdoor-optimized MetroMesh routers. Tropos
MetroMesh routers quickly and economically use the intelligent
Tropos Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP) to provide
pervasive coverage over metro areas. PWRP forms 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 mesh router failure. PWRP scales to thousands of nodes with
the lowest routing overhead in the industry. Network support
costs are minimized via the central management capabilities
of the Tropos Control element manager, a configuration, monitoring
and maintenance tool. |
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About Tropos Networks, Inc.
Tropos Networks is the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous,
metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems. We deliver the fastest,
lowest cost and simplest wireless broadband solutions, as demonstrated
by the world’s largest installed base of metro-scale Wi-Fi
mesh networks. Our innovative and patented MetroMesh™
architecture allows public safety agencies, municipalities and
service providers to quickly and easily deliver city-wide mobile
broadband connectivity to users in any locale. With more than
10x better price/performance than alternative technologies,
Tropos solutions provide standards-based access to any IP application,
including voice, data and video. 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, MetroMesh, PWRP
and Metro-Scale Mesh Networking Defined 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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