MetroNetIQ Vendor Directory: Wi Fi Mesh Gear Vendors

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http://www.aptilo.com/index.htm The Aptilo solution is a complete system for managing and operating professional public wired and wireless LANs (PLAN), as well as defined hotspots or hotzones based on technologies such as WiFi, WiMax or WiBro. Aptilo Networks provides everything you need to offer a packaged service for wireless or wired Internet access. The system is a robust carrier-class system solution with all the features you can expect and many more, both for operators and as a managed service. The solution is designed for smooth operation of advanced Public LANs. The core component is the Aptilo Service Management Platform. It is used together with Aptilo's Access Gateway. Since the solution is based on an open structure, the platform can also operate with gateways from other vendors for basic functionalities. The system solution is aimed at operators running multi-site networks, but is also offered as a managed service for non-operators or operators who can benefit from a short time to market. Contact Eric Dentler at +1-650-888-8787 for more information.

BelAir Networks features wireless networking solutions that are built on a patented cellular LAN architecture, which integrates wireless access with wireless backhaul in an innovative multi-radio mesh to provide a high-capacity wireless backbone. To create the mesh, Belair Networks uses unique, outdoor wireless internetworking platforms that beam Wi-Fi signals into buildings from the outside. Multiple backhaul radios in each node are configured point-to-point with directional antennas. Each node can connect to multiple others and the combined connections form the wireless backhaul mesh. Contact Craig Reid at +1-650-587-3843 for more information.

Cisco Wireless Mesh Network solution enables cost effective, scalable deployment of secure outdoor wireless LANs, providing government agencies and individuals with access to fixed and mobile applications to enhance public safety, efficiency, productivity, and responsiveness. Cisco launched its solution in Fall 2005, using the Cisco Aironet 1500 Series lightweight outdoor mesh access point to extend IP networks to metropolitan-area environments in a mesh-type architecture, primarily using 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g technologies for high-speed access. Contact Cisco at X for more information.

Cohda Wireless Mobile Broadband is a developer and supplier of multi-hopping digital wireless communications products, which enable new mobile field applications. Focused on public safety clients, Cohda enables such applications as real time incident video, through reliable high bandwidth communications capability while traveling at high speeds. Contact Mark James at +61 (8) 8364-4719 for more information.

Firetide was launched in 2003 to provide equipment for quickly, easily, and affordably deploying large Wireless Instant Networks. Firetide solutions support existing public "hotspots" and the company is developing instant networking technology that will deliver everywhere, all-the-time wireless data communication services to hotzones and hotregions. Contact Leslie Green at +1-408-399-7771 x 116 for more information.

LocustWorld, Bio-Diverse Networking Unleashed, has a vision of a world where communities download free software and organically develop a mesh network. Located in the UK, LocustWorld is an early mover on the global market. Contact Jon Anderson at +1 360-227-5519 for more information.

MeshDynamics is an early entrant in the mesh networking world, starting in 2002. The website of Mesh Dynamics stresses the technological advantages of its products for scalability and capacity. Contact Francis DaCosta at +1-408-373-7700 for more information.

Motorola's MeshNetworks Enabled Architecture (MEA™) technology leverages patented and proven routing techniques originally developed for battlefield communications. By pushing intelligence and decision making to the edge of the network, high performance and scalable broadband networks can be built at very low cost. MEA technology supports both infrastructure and client meshing. MEA’s infrastructure meshing creates a robust and scalable network, while client meshing enables end users to instantly form a broadband wireless network among themselves – with or without the inclusion of network infrastructure. In fact, Motorola Multi-Hopping™ technology can turn a client device into a router/repeater. Clients can form large, ad hoc peer-to-peer networks virtually anywhere, anytime. Peer-to-peer networking reduces the demand on network Access Points, freeing up capacity for other users. All these capabilities create low-cost, seamless and simple to deploy wireless PAN, LAN or WAN solutions. Contact Motorola at x for more information.

NeoReach Wireless was incorporated in 2005, as the technology division of MobilePro Corporation to manage the company's wireless service offerings, including municipal deployments, wireless ISP acquisitions and ZigBee chip initiative. NeoReach Wireless is the first to deploy a city-wide, border-to-border wireless network in the City of Tempe, Arizona. There are other wireless networks, including those launched by municipalities themselves, however none to-date cover entire cities.
NeoReach has taken the owner/operator approach and positioned ifself as the wholesale entity of the network to allow for competition among various retail partners. Contact

Nortel Networks City governments and municipalities benefit from enhanced employee safety and efficiency as well as from an improved business climate. Our Wireless Mesh Network solution addresses the market requirements for networks that are highly scalable and cost-effective, offering end users secure, seamless roaming beyond traditional WLAN boundaries and provides easy deployment in areas that do not (or cannot) support a wired backhaul. Nortel's Wireless Mesh Network solution is well-suited for providing broadband wireless access in areas that traditional WLAN systems are unable to cover. Contact Nortel at +1-800-4NORTEL for more information.

PacketHop describes their difference from standard mesh network vendors: Conventional wireless broadband networking is dependent on fixed access points and centralized, network-based servers. Fixed 802.11 networks have their shortcomings, as users are tethered to access points and hindered by bounded coverage, limited roaming, latency and single points of failure. The PacketHop Communication System changes the landscape by making infrastructure completely optional. Contact PacketHop at 650-292-5005 for more information.

Rajant Here's a unique approach to wireless. Rajant's BreadCrumb® family of products offers instant wireless broadband connectivity, adaptability, ease of deployment, security and flexibility. Rajant developed wireless broadband systems and components that have multiple applications in homeland security, public safety, emergency and enterprise networking sectors. Rajant's wireless LAN systems are portable, mobile, battery powered, meshing, self-healing, *highly secure, 802.11b access points. The company works with government, military, civilian agencies and first responder organizations to define customer needs and to identify or create funding sources for customers as well. Rajant has succeeded in developing both the private sector and federal customer base. Contact Rajant at +1-484-582-2200 for more information.

RoamAD RoamAD is the leading supplier of software for large-scale metro Wi-Fi networks, campus hotzones, and railway / highway Wi-Fi networks. RoamAD's approach is somewhat unique, in that they offer a radio-agnostic, software-based platform that can be installed on commodity hardware. The company's infrastructure-mesh network design provides multi-storey, indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi coverage in dense urban environments and over wide-areas. RoamAD's wireless network solutions provide multi-storey, indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi coverage in dense urban environments, campus hotzones, and on highway Wi-Fi networks. The technology can also be used for cellular backhaul. RoamAD networks are scalable and, with their low-latency and fast-handoff attributes, are optimized to support mobile VoIP/VoWiFi. RoamAD's metro Wi-Fi network technology allows full service telecommunications service providers, ISPs, utility companies and municipalities to cost-effectively and efficiently deliver telco-grade triple-play mobile broadband services (voice, data and video) in built-up metropolitan areas and in other wide area environments. Contact Martyn Levy at +1 (310) 601 8314 for more information.

SkyPilot In late 2004, SkyPilot came to market with a carrier-class broadband wireless solution that delivered on a vision and technology four years in the making, and the validation came quickly: over 120 customers in more than 30 countries in the first nine months. Their architecture blends two significant wireless innovations into a single solution: with an Advanced Antenna Array combined with a Synchronous Mesh Protocol, SkyPilot effectively solved the most serious RF issues facing broadband wireless deployments. The array of high-gain, high-power, sectorized antenna enabled a unique combination of extended reach, high modulation, and 360° coverage. Furthermore, this antenna array allowed a sophisticated protocol to provide bandwidth scheduling and intelligent routing in a way that provided significant benefits for both RF management and mesh networking. Contact Wes Schaefer for more information at +1-512-756-5030.

Strix Systems Strix’s Access/One™ products are the industry’s Only Modular (chassis-based) mesh system delivering the Largest capacity, Highest throughput and Lowest latency for the new generation of broadband mobility and reach-ability to support voice, video, and data applications. Sold globally by a network of first-class distributors and integrators, the Access/One™ solutions have been deployed in hundreds of networks worldwide, outdoor and indoor, for metro, public safety, government, energy, transportation, hospitality, education, enterprise, residential and carrier access markets.Contact Strix for more information.

Telabria designs and manufactures the mSystem range of outdoor mesh products that utilize multi-radio technology to create scalable wireless network solutions. These include CampusMesh™ for local area Wi-Fi coverage, CityMesh™ for metro-scale hot zones, and MobileMesh™ for portable Wi-Fi access using 3G cellular backhaul. Contact Telabria at +0845-658-1940 for more informaiton.

Tropos Networks Installed in over 300 customer sites worldwide, Tropos Networks' MetroMesh architecture includes the innovative and patented Tropos MetroMesh OS with Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP(TM)), the Tropos Control element manager software suite and purpose-built outdoor, mobile and indoor MetroMesh routers. Started over 5 years ago, Tropos is a pioneer and leader in metropolitan wireless networks, whose wireless mesh dynamically routes traffic along the highest throughput path to the Internet, which scales to thousands of nodes with the lowest routing overhead in the industry, not exceeding 5% of available bandwidth regardless of network size, and features the industry's only purpose-built mesh routing protocol built on the important principal of optimizing client-server throughput. Contact Ryan Fix at +1 408-331-6892 for more information.

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