SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Tropos Networks, the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems, today announced significant enhancements to the capabilities of its metro-scale optimized Wi-Fi mesh architecture. The new features of the architecture, now called Tropos MetroMesh(TM), add multi-community capabilities that enable multiple user groups to run and manage separate, secure networks on a single metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh infrastructure. MetroMesh's multi-use capabilities are implemented in the new Tropos MetroMesh OS release 4 and Tropos Control release 4.
"We are extremely pleased with our Tropos MetroMesh solution," said Bradley Mayer, IS Manager of the City of Chaska. "Our 16 square mile metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh system now serves more than 2,500 residential and municipal users and performance has been spectacular. Our city could not be more pleased with the results. We expect the new MetroMesh features to give our system even more flexibility and value."
The new software, when combined with Tropos Networks' purpose-built MetroMesh routers, allows each group of users on a metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network to have its own virtual network with its own address space, security encryption mechanisms, access control and classes of service, all administered independently from other user groups. All aspects of each virtual network can be centrally monitored and managed using the Tropos Control element manager.
"The key to successfully serving and managing multi-community, metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh user groups is the software intelligence built in to the network and its management system," said Craig Mathias, a Principal at the mobile and wireless advisory firm Farpoint Group (Ashland, MA). "With metro-scale Wi-Fi already a mission-critical facility in so many communities, the enhancements Tropos Networks has added to their product line will prove to be of great value and benefit as metro-scale Wi-Fi continues its evolution towards ubiquity."
Tropos Networks