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CHEETAH
WIRELESS STANDARDIZES ON TROPOS FOR RESIDENTIAL AND SMALL
BUSINESS WI-FI BROADBAND DEPLOYMENTS |
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Plans to Cover Over
100 Square Miles of Las Vegas
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SUNNYVALE, CA - February 11, 2005 -- Tropos Networks, the leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks, today announced that, after
carefully evaluating numerous outdoor Wi-Fi networking products,
Cheetah Wireless Technologies, Inc. (CWTI) has standardized
on Tropos equipment for use in its residential and small business
wireless broadband ubiquitous coverage deployments. CWTI has
already installed Tropos equipment in operational networks in
Las Vegas, NV and Encinitas, CA and plans to expand the Las
Vegas coverage area to over 100 square miles. |
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“After thorough evaluation of Tropos
Networks and the alternatives, we have standardized on Tropos
as our core 802.11 Wi-Fi technology,” said Mitch Gonzalez,
President and Founder of CWTI. “We will use Tropos technology
in all of our metro-scale deployments that require access using
standard 802.11 Wi-Fi clients. We chose the Tropos system because
it provides the most cost effective throughput for large-scale
geographies and because the omni-directional design is the easiest
to install and expand. Moreover, we are thrilled with the way
the Tropos system has operated in our evaluation and production
networks.” |
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CWTI is in the final stages of rolling out
30 Hotzones using Tropos equipment, with an additional 10 Hotzones
per month planned in the metropolitan Las Vegas area. The company
plans to increase its coverage area by installing additional
Tropos mesh routers around the Hotzones, using the meshing characteristics
of the Tropos equipment to expand their size to eventually cover
over 100 square miles in and around Las Vegas.
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The Encinitas network covers approximately
one square mile, stretching several blocks on either side of
Highway 101 from Encinitas Blvd. to K Street. It provides residential
and small business broadband Internet access as well as mobile
service throughout the area. The network provides user connections
at speeds of 512 kbps and above. |
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“We are very pleased that CWTI chose
to standardize on Tropos equipment and that Las Vegas and Encinitas
are being unwired with Tropos,” said Ron Sege, president
and CEO of Tropos. “CWTI’s selection of Tropos further
validates our superior metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networking equipment
and adds to our tremendous market momentum.” |
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The Encinitas and Las Vegas networks use
Tropos Networks’ outdoor-optimized and ruggedized Wi-Fi
mesh routers. Tropos Wi-Fi mesh 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 node 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, 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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