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TROPOS
NETWORKS TAPS VETERAN INDUSTRY EXECUTIVES TO EXTEND CUSTOMER
MOMENTUM AND ACCELERATE GROWTH |
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Francois Le and Mike Bailey Bring a Combined 40+ Years
of Industry Experience to the Leading Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Company |
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SUNNYVALE, CA, August 25, 2004
Tropos Networks, the leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced two executive appointments
that position the company to capitalize on the rapid growth
of the worldwide metro-scale Wi-Fi market and the company’s
accelerating customer traction. The appointees are Francois
Le as Vice President of Carrier and International Sales, and
Mike Bailey as Vice President of Operations. |
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Francois Le brings over 19 years of networking
industry sales and marketing experience to Tropos Networks.
Previously, Le was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Aperto
Networks, a supplier of WiMAX-class broadband wireless equipment,
where he extended the customer base into more than 50 countries.
Before Aperto, Mr. Le was Director of Product Marketing and
Business Development for WAN access products at 3Com Corporation.
He came to 3Com via its acquisition of OnStream Networks, where
he led marketing and sales of ATM access solutions to U.S. and
international carriers. Earlier, Mr. Le was Vice President of
International Sales with Multipoint Networks and held executive
sales positions at NET. Mr. Le holds an engineering diploma
from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, France
and an MBA from Stanford University. |
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Mike Bailey brings over 25 years of product
development, manufacturing and operations experience to Tropos
Networks. Previously, Mr. Bailey served as Vice President of
Operations for Nishan Systems, where he expanded operations
and customer support to accommodate a ten times growth in sales
in an eighteen month period. Before Nishan, Mr. Bailey served
as Vice President of Operations of Lantern Communications. Previously,
Mr. Bailey was Vice President of Operations for DiviCom, directing
operations and customer service from initial product development
through $200 million in annual revenue. Earlier, Mr. Bailey
held managerial positions at Compression Labs and Eastman Kodak
Company. He holds a BSEE from the University of Cincinnati and
an MBA from the University of Northern Colorado.
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“Francois and Mike bring tremendous
growth-phase experience and capabilities to our seasoned executive
management team,” said Ron Sege, President and CEO of
Tropos Networks. “Their talents will enable us to meet
the burgeoning demand for metro-scale Wi-Fi in new markets and
to scale high-quality production and operations rapidly. We
view this as essential for us to capitalize on the rapid growth
we are experiencing in the metro-scale Wi-Fi market.” |
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Tropos Networks is the leading supplier of
Wi-Fi mesh systems for metro-scale networks. Recently announced
customers include Chaska, MN; Milpitas, CA; Corpus Christi,
TX; and Nantucket, MA. Tropos metro-scale Wi-Fi networks are
used for a variety of public and private network applications
including public safety; residential, business and mobile Internet
access; video surveillance and automated meter reading. |
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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. Tropos
Wi-Fi cells use the intelligent PWRP to provide pervasive, metro-scale
coverage. 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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About Tropos Networks, Inc.
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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