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Bold Prediction: Telcos Will Become Wholesale Providers
March 6-7, 2006
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There's been a lot of noise in the press lately: on one side, the dying monsters of another age - the telcos - led by BellSouth whose CTO recently announced that they would be justified in charging content providers like Yahoo and Google for access because those companies are making lots of money by using the telco's network.
On the other side are those who believe that the era of Centralized Command and Control withered away with the old Soviet Union and that, like it or not, this is the age of competition and open networks. For the latter, BellSouth's pronouncements are outrageous threats made by a monopoly that continues to thrive only because it showers millions of dollars on lobbyists in US federal and state legislatures.
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Earthlink, Motorola and Tropos…Bringing MetroMesh to the Masses
EarthLink, the nation's next generation Internet Service Provider, announced it has partnered with Motorola, Inc. and Tropos Networks to provide wireless equipment, design, installation and system integration for the initial five major cities where EarthLink will deploy municipal wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) broadband Internet access networks. Motorola will integrate Tropos MetroMesh routers, along with products from its recently announced MOTOwi4 product portfolio, throughout cities such as Philadelphia and Anaheim.
The partnership is the first of its kind in the emerging municipal broadband market…pairing three proven leaders in their respective markets to offer fast, low-cost and simple wireless broadband connectivity to millions of consumers.
The Promise of Wireless Mesh Networks
The wireless mesh network is currently seen as a practical solution for offering large-scale deployment of Wi-Fi access. With wireless mesh networks, a centralized controller performs the management of all the network access points, the benefit of which is to allow for better security and easier management.
Looking at logic, the growth of Internet hotspots everywhere, Wi-Fi-enabled features being a standard offering in personal digital assistants (PDAs), phones and computers lend credence to the notion that this technology will continually evolve to match consumers' expectations and demands.
One specific area of Wi-Fi technology that is being focused on is the wireless mesh network. What is it? Well for starters, a mesh network is a type of wireless networking that uses redundant and distributed wireless network access points. Its aim is to provide greater reliability and range of coverage for any given wireless network. More…
Tropos Co-Founder, CEO Honored
Narasimha Chari, Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Tropos Networks, was named one of India Post's Heroes of 2005. From the article, "Tropos' Services, which are built around Chari's routing protocols, dominate the nascent mesh-networking industry, which were otherwise exclusively a military domain."
Ron Sege, President and CEO of Tropos Networks, was named by online wireless news source Unstrung as one of their People of the Year 2005. From the article, "Tropos…has basically helped to put the concept of using multiple interconnected access points to provide inexpensive public broadband on the map in 2005."
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