Latest generation wireless mesh technology now enables broadband wireless coverage on a previously unimaginable scale. Mesh technology is the most economic way of providing network access to large numbers of fixed and mobile users over large areas, from campuses to entire cities and beyond. Technology Partners delivers these networks from the world-wide market leader in wireless mesh: Tropos Networks. With over 500 deployments in 30 countries, Tropos has a proven track record of delivering individual installations covering thousands of square kilometres, supporting thousands of concurrent users downloading hundreds of gigabytes of data per day. Ubiquitous wireless coverage on such a scale enables a number of important applications:
Whether it is consumers enjoying an afternoon at the park, enterprise field employees or police officers on the beat, metro-scale wireless mesh networks allow people to take their offices on the road. Factor in the emerging location-based services such as targeted searches and social applications (think MySpace with a "find me" option), and metro-scale wireless represents a fundamental shift in the way people access their data.
Metro-scale wireless mesh networks offer the lowest capital and operating costs and fastest set-ups of any alternative for true broadband (>1 Mbps downloading and uploading) service to the home or small business.
The wireless mesh architecture provides more than enough bandwidth to support throughput-hungry video surveillance applications. Because the service is symmetrical, the mesh is suitable for providing the core network backbone for fixed and mobile surveillance cameras, as well as delivering live images of incidents in progress to mobile first responders.
Video surveillance can be deployed as part of a citywide public safety wireless network, or for specific homeland or industrial security projects. In all cases, MetroMesh technology enhances the economics of video surveillance and makes it deployable on a true metro scale. Please visit the Next Generation Video Surveillance section of this web site for further information.
Utility meters, SCADA devices, and parking meters have one thing in common - they need to be read regularly. This is normally a labor intensive process. Fortunately, intelligent, digital meters and networking technology have converged to enable meters to be read from a distance, saving human effort, time and cost. When coupled with a city-wide mesh network, these devices can be read automatically, with no human intervention, from one side of the city to the other.
Wi-Fi-enabled phones are becoming increasingly popular. Many alternatives have emerged, including hybrid Wi-Fi/cellular phones, Wi-Fi phones for conventional VoIP, and IP soft phones.
With built-in, voice-optimized QoS, Tropos mesh networks are the perfect way for users to connect anywhere in the Wi-Fi coverage area with the low cost and simplicity of Voice-over-IP.
The multi-use Tropos  MetroMesh architecture allows many of these applications to run at the same time. Opening the networks to a wide variety of applications and users best leverages the capital investment in the network and amortizes fixed operation costs over a larger user population. Running many applications is the key to maximizing return on investment in metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks.
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