Tropos Cites Growing Deployments of Municipal Wi-Fi

Tropos Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, cited another deployment of its metro-scale Wi-Fi. The City of Corpus Christi, Texas, will deploy the Tropos Wi-Fi system for use by the city-owned water and gas utilities, public works departments, and public safety agencies.



In addition to the utility applications, the network will be available for use by city public works crews, as well as the Corpus Christi Police and Fire Departments. The public safety agencies, with more than 315 police, fire, and EMS vehicles in their collective fleet, will use VPN authenticated access to all of the applications currently available only in their offices. The city also plans to operate GPS-based asset and vehicle tracking applications over the Wi-Fi network. Financial terms were not disclosed.



The first phase of the network will utilize approximately 300 Tropos 5110 Wi-Fi cells, an outdoor-optimized and ruggedized wireless mesh router based on the 802.11 standard.



Tropos Wi-Fi cells form a wireless mesh, dynamically routing traffic along the highest throughput path to a wired gateway. This intelligent routing negates effects of radio frequency (RF) interference, wired backhaul failure and node failure. http://ww.troposnetworks.com