Former Qualcomm Vice President Ellen Kirk Brings Carrier Systems and Mobile Wireless Industry Marketing Depth to Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Mesh Market Leader

SUNNYVALE, CA – September 28, 2005 – Tropos Networks, the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems, today announced the addition of Ellen Kirk to its world-class executive management team. Ms. Kirk will serve as Tropos Networks’ Vice President of Marketing. In her new role, Ms. Kirk will be responsible for the continued market leadership of the Tropos and MetroMesh brands, as well as all product, marketing and corporate communications activities worldwide.

Ms. Kirk brings more than 18 years of marketing and business development experience to Tropos Networks. Prior to Tropos, Ms. Kirk served as Vice President, Business Development, in the CDMA Technologies Division of Qualcomm, where she was responsible for creating W-CDMA handset strategies, defining initiatives for accelerating migration to 3G, and driving adoption of location-based services worldwide. In this role, Ms. Kirk was instrumental in creating global awareness of Qualcomm’s gpsOne technology as the dominant method for locating wireless handsets. Ms. Kirk joined Qualcomm’s leadership team through its acquisition of wireless-assisted GPS pioneer SnapTrack, Inc., where she was responsible for marketing and strategic planning. In this position, Ms. Kirk drove the initiative that produced the FCC rule change permitting handset-based location solutions to be compliant for wireless E9-1-1.

Prior to SnapTrack, Ms. Kirk held key merger and acquisition roles in wireless pioneer AirTouch Communications, as well as investment banking leaders County Natwest International and Merrill Lynch.

“We are very excited to welcome an executive with Ellen’s impressive and diverse background to our team,” said Ron Sege, President and CEO of Tropos Networks. “She brings a wealth of carrier market experience to our company, and has a proven track record of aggressively developing nascent markets and driving widespread adoption of innovative technologies.”

“I am very excited at the rare opportunity that Tropos, as the clear leader in this market, presents,” said Ellen Kirk, Vice President of Marketing for Tropos Networks. “The explosion of the metro-scale wireless market, which Tropos played a primary role in creating, highlights a disruptive technology capable of fundamentally changing the worldwide broadband access paradigm.”

Ms. Kirk attended Rice University, where she earned both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Chemical Engineering degrees. She also earned a Master in Business Administration, with distinction, from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Tropos Networks also announced that Bert Williams, formerly the company’s Vice President of Marketing, will assume responsibility for product marketing of the Tropos MetroMesh products and services.

About Tropos Networks, Inc.
Tropos Networks is the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network systems. We deliver the fastest, lowest cost and simplest wireless broadband access solutions, as demonstrated by the world’s largest installed base of metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks. Our innovative MetroMesh™ architecture with our patented Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol™ (PRWP) allows public safety agencies, municipalities and service providers to quickly and easily deliver city-wide fixed and mobile multi-megabit connectivity for IP-based voice, video and data applications. PWRP is the first and only metro-scale optimized, radio-agnostic, wireless mesh routing protocol, which does with routing software what other approaches attempt to do with expensive hardware. The result is 10x better price/performance than any other approach to the broadband last mile. 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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