Tropos Networks Names CEO, Targets WiFi Meshes

Tropos Networks, a start-up developing metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks, named Ron Sege as its new president and CEO. Sege, most recently the CEO of Ellacoya Networks. Previously, he served as president of U.S. Operations for Terra Lycos and before that he spent 10 years at 3Com, most recently as senior vice president of the Systems Business Unit.


The Tropos platform creates a "Wi-Fi cell", which layers intelligence on top of the 802.11 standard. Wi-Fi cells form an intelligent, self-organizing, self-healing, and truly wireless broadband data network that forwards data through the mesh along the optimal path to a wired network. Access nodes can be quickly deployed on city lampposts, or other such outdoor locations, with a backhaul connection needed only every 10 nodes or so. The Tropos system is currently in deployment by a number of metro ISPs and by several cities and police departments. http://ww.troposnetworks.com