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AIIRMESH
COMMUNICATIONS USES TROPOS EQUIPMENT TO GO LIVE WITH AMERICA’S
FIRST UNWIRED WI-FI CITY |
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The City of Cerritos, California, Now Covered with Broadband
Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Network |
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SAN MATEO, CA, March 22, 2004
Tropos Networks, a leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced that Aiirmesh Communications
of Woodland Hills, California, has unwired the City of Cerritos,
California, with metro-scale cellular Wi-Fi equipment from Tropos
and has gone live with the first service using the network.
The Tropos 5110 Wi-Fi cells were used in Cerritos to create
the first city in the country with ubiquitous broadband wireless
connectivity available to residents, businesses, local government
and nomadic mobile users. |
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“The carrier-class cellular mesh products
from Tropos enabled us to provide complete coverage throughout
Cerritos in the most efficient and economical manner possible,”
said Stan Hirschman, CEO of Aiirmesh Communications. “In
addition, the Tropos products open up a completely unique subscriber
market for Aiirmesh…the mobile broadband user.” |
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The Tropos gear was used by Aiirmesh to quickly
build a network that delivers true broadband to a variety of
subscribers within the borders of Cerritos, an area of approximately
nine square miles. Aiirmesh offers several service plans, including
the Aiirmesh At-Home™ service for the residential user,
Aiirmesh In-Town™ plans for the mobile user, and Aiirmesh
Business-Pro™ for the corporate customer who needs dedicated
bandwidth. The In-Town service, which allows users to purchase
Wi-Fi service in hourly, daily, or monthly blocks, is the first
offering to go live; visitors to Cerritos today can access this
service with a standard Wi-Fi enabled client, such as a laptop
computer or a PDA. The Aiirmesh At-Home and Business-Pro services
are currently being rolled-out in a staged, planned manner and
are now available for pre-subscription.
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The City of Cerritos has had, until now,
limited access to broadband data. No areas of the city are covered
by cable broadband, and only a portion of the city has DSL service
capability, providing inconsistent service at best. Aiirmesh
has eliminated this broadband deficiency by offering every resident,
business and visitor access to true broadband connectivity utilizing
the metro-scale Wi-Fi equipment from Tropos Networks. |
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The Tropos 5110 Wi-Fi cell, an outdoor-optimized
and ruggedized node based on the 802.11 standard, uses the intelligent
Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP) to provide pervasive
coverage city-wide. The Tropos PWRP routes traffic wirelessly,
effectively eliminating up to 95% of the wired backhaul requirements
associated with traditional access point, or hotspot, solutions.
The Tropos Wi-Fi cells form a wireless mesh, dynamically routing
traffic along the highest throughput path to the wired gateway.
This intelligent routing negates effects of radio frequency
(RF) interference, backhaul failure, and traffic loads by selecting
the best-performing route to a wired backhaul point. PWRP also
scales to thousands of nodes with the lowest routing overhead
in the industry. |
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“The Tropos solution is purpose-built
for this type of application,” said Ron Sege, President
and CEO of Tropos Networks. “This is, without a doubt,
the quickest and most economical way for a service provider
to deliver true metro-scale broadband. Wired backhaul is used
very efficiently, truck rolls are eliminated due to the use
of standard Wi-Fi clients, and the network can be installed
and extended quickly and easily in response to subscriber growth.
The result is unprecedented bandwidth, coverage and mobility.” |
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The City of Cerritos is one of the largest
users of the Aiirmesh network. They have agreed to service subscriptions
for many of their mobile employees, including city maintenance
workers, code enforcement officers and building inspectors.
In addition to being a user of the Aiirmesh service, the city
is committed to the deployment of Community Broadband to all
of the residents and businesses of Cerritos. |
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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, metro-scale, broadband wireless data
to users in any locale. The Tropos solution creates truly wireless
and carrier-class broadband networks that are low cost and easy
to install and scale. The Tropos cellular mesh architecture,
patent-pending protocols and optimized radios eliminate the
need for backhaul at every node and deliver maximum bandwidth
regardless of conditions. Tropos products enable larger coverage
areas, decreased installation costs and decreased operational
costs. 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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About Aiirmesh Communications
Formed by a group of experienced Internet telecommunications
and wireless technology experts, Aiirmesh is a value added reseller
and provider of end-to-end solutions for WiFi high-speed community
broadband Internet services. Aiirmesh creates networks to meet
the needs of consumers, public safety and enterprises. Working
with Affiliate partners throughout North America, Aiirmesh designs,
deploys and provides network management services. |
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Aiirmesh is a privately held company based
in Woodland Hills, CA, with offices in Highland Ranch, CO, and
Plano, TX. The Company can be reached at Aiirmesh Communications,
20335 Ventura Blvd. Suite 425, Woodland Hills, CA 91364. Phone:
818.673.1897. |
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