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OKLAHOMA
CITY TO DEPLOY UBIQUITOUS WI-FI FROM TROPOS NETWORKS AS COMMUNICATIONS
BACKBONE OF PUBLIC SAFETY OVERHAUL |
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Secure and Reliable Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Network to Provide
Wireless Broadband to Police and Fire Officers Anywhere Throughout
620 Square Mile Footprint of City |
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OKLAHOMA CITY, OK, September
28, 2004
Tropos Networks, the leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced that Oklahoma City
has selected Tropos Networks’ open-standard metro-scale
Wi-Fi mesh architecture to provide secure and reliable mobile
broadband to public safety officers throughout the entire 620
square mile footprint of the city. The Wi-Fi network will provide
unprecedented bandwidth to field officers, enabling the city
to overhaul their entire mission critical data communications
system. For the first time, officers in the field will have
access to critical applications previously unavailable outside
of the precincts and firehouses. |
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Oklahoma City voters approved a $90 million
sales tax to complete the replacement of their existing radio
and public safety information systems. The multi-million dollar
complete system overhaul, led by consulting firm ACS of Dallas,
will establish Oklahoma City as a leader in 21st century public
safety systems. |
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“To support the state-of-the art applications
that are central to our redesigned public safety systems, we
needed to provide unprecedented broadband connectivity to public
safety officers in the field,” said Kerry Wagnon, Project
Director for Oklahoma City. “The Tropos metro-scale Wi-Fi
system is a solution that allows us to deploy the best communications
and investigative tools to the field, at by far the fastest,
lowest cost and most reliable way possible.”
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“We are extremely excited to be leading
the revolution in fast, low cost and reliable broadband wireless
communications,” said Ron Sege, President and CEO of Tropos
Networks. “Oklahoma City is the latest example of how
Tropos metro-scale Wi-Fi is changing the way communities connect.
Wi-Fi technology combined with client-server mesh protocols
is perfectly suited for both public and private networks, including
state-of-the-art public safety infrastructure systems.”
It is fast, reliable and low cost to deploy and to use. |
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The city is deploying an advanced end-to-end
communications system incorporating the latest technology in
computer-aided dispatch, in-field reporting systems, records
management, GPS tracking systems, Web-based crime databases
and mapping systems. Because of the high bandwidth provided
by the Tropos metro-scale Wi-Fi system, these advanced applications
will be accessible by field officers anywhere in the city with
full roaming and mobility capabilities. For example, police
officers in the field will have access to high-resolution photos,
incident video feeds, and detailed crime databases through their
in-vehicle computer systems. Fire officials will have access
to detailed mapping and GPS systems, as well as detailed structure
plan databases, in their vehicles and mobile command centers.
This field access to critical data is a force-multiplying technology,
enabling officers to remain in the field instead of traveling
to the precinct to access these applications. As a result, the
safety of both the community and the officers is greatly increased. |
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The Oklahoma City network will utilize a
combination of Tropos fixed and newly-announced mobile Wi-Fi
cells. The fixed Tropos Wi-Fi cell is an outdoor-optimized and
ruggedized wireless mesh router based on the 802.11 standard;
the Tropos 4210 mobile Wi-Fi cell, also 802.11 standard, is
an in-vehicle mounted wireless mesh router to provide peerless
broadband roaming and connectivity. This unique combination
of fixed and mobile cells allows the network to be deployed
in the quickest and most economical manner on the market today,
while providing an always-on broadband connection to each and
every public safety officer anywhere in the city. |
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The Tropos cells quickly and economically
use the intelligent Tropos Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol
(PWRP) to provide pervasive coverage over very large 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. 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, 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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