Traffic on Google's Metro Wi-Fi Network in Mountain View Handles >300 Gigabytes of Traffic Daily!
As Google's Tropos MetroMesh-based network in Mountain View celebrates its first anniversary, it shows steadily increasing usage and the ability to adapt as usage increases. Google reports in a recent blog posting that the community network serves 15,000 unique users per month and handles over 300 gigabytes of data daily.
Philly's Wild for Wi-Fi!
Now that Philadelphia's 135-square mile network is over 80% completed, the city is excited about the potential benefits: increased economic development, easy access for tourists and visitors, efficiency improvements for mobile municipal workers, digital divide, and competitively priced alternative service for residential users. Read more...
Wireless Philadelphia, a non-profit organization, is using the network to assist in delivering on their vision of helping economically disadvantaged citizens, businesses, and schools get connected to the Internet. Read more...
Can you really just about anywhere around Philly and attach to the city's Wi-Fi network? Check out the video produced by Network World and see for yourself!
Frontier Building Business on Wi-Fi
Frontier has begun offering its public mobile Wi-Fi service in Cookeville, Tennessee; Carlinville, Illinois; Elko, Nevada. The wireless data offering is an extension of the company's existing offering which includes voice, video and high-speed Internet products and services. In addition, Wilkes-Barre, PA is being deployed and will be used not only for public access but for public safety applications as well.
Tropos and Gilmore Foundation Help to Bridge the Digital Divide in Amory, MS
The Gilmore Foundation, a non-profit organization benefiting all of northeast Mississippi, has completed its installation of a Wi-Fi network in Amory, MS providing access to city's residents, businesses and municipal workers. The multi-application network is available free of charge to all users, improving municipal worker efficiency as well as improving quality of life for all residents. In addition to residential and commercial Internet access, the network was deployed to combat the city's troubled education system and rising poverty rate. Read more...
Boston's Newbury Street Gets Boost in Reliability and Performance With Tropos MetroMesh Routers
The NewburyOpen.net network is a free community wireless network covering downtown Boston's Newbury Street area. Its used by visitors, residents and local businesses. Read more...
Accela
Mobile Technology Solutions for Today's Mobile Workforce
The concept of the mobile workforce has dramatically challenged the traditional methods in which employees analyze documents and interact with data. As more and more workers become equipped with mobile devices, organizations enjoy a wide range of benefits including enhanced data collection and accuracy, improved data quality and flow, and more accountability for work processes and task assignments. With these kinds of benefits, there is an increasing demand for government officials to embrace new mobile technologies.
In addition government agencies are being pressured to take on increasing levels of responsibilities and tasks without increasing headcount. As a result, government agencies are examining ways in which to become more efficient — mobile computing solutions can significantly contribute to this by improving the exchange of vital information with field personnel, employees, and citizens-and to automate critical business processes.
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Tropos Public Safety Solutions
The 9000 family of 4.9 GHz-equipped MetroMesh routers for public safety are now shipping and include Tropos' unique Spectrum Application Based Routing Engine (SABRE) technology that provides dynamic policy-based multi-band routing within the mesh. Specifically, it reserves the 4.9GHz band for public safety use while optionally allowing the use of 2.4GHz spectrum for fault tolerance and capacity overflow.
Learn more about the Tropos 9532 Outdoor Public Safety MetroMesh Router and the 9422 Mobile Public Safety MetroMesh Router.
Featured Tropos Solution Partners
High-quality solutions (applications, infrastructure components, CPEs) and metro Wi-Fi networks go hand-in-hand in building networks that deliver high value for communities. Tropos selects key partners to invite into its MetroMesh Solution Partners program to assist customers in identifying the components it takes to build the network and services they want to deliver.
General Devices and Tropos partnered to create the first operational EMS telemedicine system in the country in Tucson, AZ. View the Tucson News 12 video about this deployment. General Devices is a leader in advanced Telemedicine and Communications products for Emergency Medical Services, Emergency Departments and Public Safety, providing solutions for voice, telemetry, patient care information and interoperability via radio, cellular, landline, and wireless mesh networks. Learn more about how General Devices solutions are saving lives.
BridgeWave Communications is the leading supplier of point-to-point, fixed Gigabit Ethernet outdoor wireless connectivity solutions. With more than 1,000 gigabit radios deployed worldwide, BridgeWave delivers the highest levels of product quality and reliability.
ShotSpotter is the world leader in gunshot location and detection systems for the public safety and military markets. The company has been delivering patented, state-of-the-art gunshot location and detection solutions for more than a decade, enabling countless arrests as well as saving lives. Learn more about how ShotSpotter is helping fight crime.
iPhone Works Better on Wi-Fi Than on the EDGE Network
Since the release of Apple's iPhone in late June, there has been much praise of the phone, matching most of its pre-release hype, and at the same time much criticism of AT&T's cellular EDGE network. Critics agree that EDGE is outdated and not capable with keeping up with the expectations of today's Internet and data-transfer demands.
Out of this attention naturally there arises one question. Is the iPhone experience better in cities equipped with outdoor Wi-Fi coverage such as the Earthlink network in Philadelphia and the Google network in Mountain View? Read the full article here...
Check out a side-by-side live comparison of the iPhone running on the AT&T EDGE network, and on the Google Wi-Fi network powered by Tropos in Mountain View. You won't believe the difference!
Tropos Customer Success Stories
While Tropos is deploying new networks every month, focusing on the success of existing networks is just as important as reporting on the new.
Virtual Eyes on Crime Help Protect the Community of
Savannah, GA
The Savannah Chatham Metropolitan Police Department can respond faster and pinpoint problems as a result of its virtual surveillance network in the downtown riverfront area. The Tropos-based network is being used to monitor crowds during its famous Saint Patrick's Day Festival, as well as other public events held in the area year-round. Click here to read the full story.
Breakeven for Network in Marina del Rey, CA in under one year
Planet Halo, has outfitted Marina del Rey with outdoor Wi-Fi coverage and expects to break even on their investment within one year! For the first time, boat owners and visitors to the marina can access the Internet over the Tropos-based network. Click here to read the full story.
National Wireless Summit & Expo
Los Angeles, CA
September 10-11, 2007
2007 Tiburon User Group Conference
Orlando, FL
September 16-20, 2007
Public Technology Institute (PTI) – Wi-Fi Done Right Part 2
Corpus Christi, TX
September 19-21, 2007
MuniWireless
Santa Clara, CA
October 21-23
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