TROPOS NETWORKS AND THE CLOUD PARTNER TO DELIVER METRO-SCALE MESH NETWORKS TO EUROPEAN CITIES

Partnership to Deliver Expanded Wi-Fi Coverage Areas in Urban Centers in Europe, Integrate Seamless Subscriber Mobility

SUNNYVALE, CA - February 1, 2006 -- Tropos Networks, the proven leader in delivering ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems, and The Cloud, the largest hot spot operator in Europe, today announced a collaboration to deliver metro-scale mesh networks to city centers in the UK and Europe. The partnership will deliver broadband wireless networks, with seamless subscriber mobility, expanding The Cloud's already industry-leading Wi-Fi footprint.

The partnership and subsequent technology expansion will allow The Cloud and its customers to deliver innovative mobile broadband applications to customers over large areas. For the first time, service providers operating on The Cloud's infrastructure will be able to deliver metro-scale value-added services such as mobile internet access and wireless voice services, remote wireless video monitoring, automated meter reading (AMR) and multiple public safety applications, among others.

"We are very excited to be teaming with Tropos and using its market-leading products," said George Polk, CEO of The Cloud. "This partnership, as it matures, will allow us to deliver a wireless IP infrastructure that shatters the boundaries of traditional hot spots. Our customers will have enhanced capabilities to deliver to their subscribers, resulting in an opportunity for increased subscriber acquisition and satisfaction."

"Demand for metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh across Europe is now growing rapidly," said Ron Sege, CEO of Tropos Networks. "The tremendous breadth of experience and market expertise of The Cloud, using Tropos MetroMesh technology, will help drive the worldwide expansion of the metro-scale industry."

The Cloud's networks are open to any service provider who would like to provide advanced wireless services to their customers. The Tropos MetroMesh architecture allows multiple user communities to operate on a single wireless infrastructure, with each group afforded the opportunity for individual security and authentication settings, bandwidth provisioning and unique network identification.

The collaborative deployments will begin in 2006. Both parties anticipate the adoption of the joint solution to be aggressive, with a number of European projects to be announced during the year.

Deployed in more than 300 customer sites worldwide, 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 planning, optimization and support costs are minimized via the capabilities of Tropos Control, a purpose-built element management system for MetroMesh networks, Tropos Insight, an advanced MetroMesh analyzer and optimizer, and Tropos Drive, a drive-test appliance to determine coverage and throughput in MetroMesh networks.

About Tropos Networks, Inc.
Tropos Networks is the proven leader in delivering ubiquitous, metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network systems. Our mission is to enable wireless broadband access everywhere for everyone through innovative, low-cost and simple products, software tools and services. We have deployed larger and longer-operating systems in more municipalities than any other company in our industry. Our unique expertise includes high-performance mesh software development, mesh RF engineering, metro-scale network planning, deployment and optimization, and navigating the municipal approval process. 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.

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).

About The Cloud
The Cloud offers sophisticated national wireless LAN coverage in approximately 6000 hotspot locations throughout the UK, Sweden and Germany. The Cloud's infrastructure is a multi-service provider platform, which allows providers such as ISPs, mobile operators and cable companies to offer a fully branded wireless LAN experience to their customers. With The Cloud, site owners maximize their revenue potential by supporting all major service providers at their location and customers enjoy the best possible experience and maximum ease of use.