Milpitas, California, Deploys Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Public Safety
Network from Tropos Networks
Silicon Valley City Builds Metro-Scale Wi-Fi Network to Provide
Field Officers Access to Broadband Applications Previously
Unavailable Outside of Police Headquarters
MILPITAS,
Calif.--(
BUSINESS WIRE)--June 8, 2004--
Laptop Battery Tropos Networks, the leading supplier of equipment used to build
metro-scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced that the City of
Milpitas, California, has deployed a five square mile Wi-Fi network
for use by the city's law enforcement officers. For the first time,
officers in this Bay Area suburb have
in-vehicle access to a variety of
broadband applications including crime databases, records
management systems, and traffic & incident video feeds. Access
to these applications will soon be expanded to include the city's
fleet of motorcycle patrols as well as the more than 20
engines of the Milpitas Fire
Department. Future plans call for the expansion of the Wi-Fi
network to cover the entire 10 square mile inhabited footprint
of the city.
"Effective communications in our public safety agencies is of
paramount importance to ensuring a safe community," said Bill
Marion, Information Services Director for the City of Milpitas.
"Secure in-field access to critical information is a key element of
that effectiveness. The Tropos solution allowed us to quickly
deploy the broadband wireless network that makes this access
possible, with the lowest total cost of ownership for the city. The
sophisticated management and scalability features in the Tropos
release 3 make this the ideal product for our city's needs."
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Thinkpad "Milpitas is another crowning example of how technology can
improve the safety of a community," said Ron Sege, President and
CEO of Tropos Networks. "The simplicity and flexibility of the
Tropos solution allowed this cutting-edge city to rapidly deploy a
communications network with up to ten times the performance of
traditional wireless and cellular technologies at a fraction of the
cost."
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Microsoft In this community of over 63,000 residents, the police
department will be the anchor tenant of the metro-scale Wi-Fi
network. Using Wi-Fi enabled data terminals installed in each of
the more than 30 patrol vehicles in the city's motor pool,
officers will have access to broadband applications previously
unavailable over the low bandwidth CDPD connections purchased by
the city. Officers now have fully-secure in-field access to IP
based applications such as the Cal Photo Database, California Gang
Database, and DMV records and photos, as well as computer aided
dispatch (CAD) and records management systems (RMS). Additionally,
Milpitas Police uses the Tropos network to link and access a
network of video cameras monitoring high-traffic areas throughout
the city; officers can now assess transportation snarls and traffic
incidents from any patrol vehicle within the Wi-Fi coverage
area, improving the effectiveness of community policing. In the
near future, the Milpitas Fire Department will use the same
broadband Wi-Fi network to access hazardous materials databases,
incident video, and mobile dispatch applications. Other municipal
workers, such as building inspectors, traffic engineers and
code-enforcement officers, are expected to utilize the network as
well.
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5110 Wi-Fi cells, an outdoor-optimized and ruggedized node based on
the 802.11 standard. The Tropos 5110 quickly and economically uses
the intelligent Tropos Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP)
to provide pervasive coverage over metro areas. The Tropos PWRP
routes traffic wirelessly, eliminating up to 95% of the wired
backhaul associated with traditional access point
solutions. 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. PWRP also scales to
thousands of nodes with the lowest routing overhead in the
industry. Milpitas is using a combination of city-owned fiber
and fixed point-to-point wireless technology for its backhaul
connections.
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Desktop Computer Tropos Networks, Inc. is the leading supplier of systems used to
build metro-scale, outdoor Wi-Fi networks. Tropos' unique Wi-Fi
cells, along with the first element manager to control large Wi-Fi
networks, enable public agencies and service providers to deliver
ubiquitous, city-wide mobile broadband to users in any locale.
These carrier-class IP networks are low cost and easy to install
and scale. The Tropos cellular mesh architecture and use of
optimized open-standard radios dramatically reduce the need for
wired backhaul while eliminating expensive proprietary clients and
complex software. Using the patented Predictive Wireless Routing
Protocol(TM), Tropos solutions deliver maximum bandwidth to the
user regardless of conditions, at unprecedented Wi-Fi network
scale. Tropos Networks is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
For more information, please visit www.tropos.com, call
408-331-6800 or write to info@tropos.com.
Notebooks Tropos Networks, Tropos and PWRP are trademarks of Tropos
Networks, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holder(s).
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