CHASKA, Minn.-Tropos Networks announced chaska.net, a wireless Internet service provider owned and operated by the City of Chaska, Minn., has launched a metro-scale Wi-Fi network covering the community's 16-square-mile footprint.Service is now being offered for $16 per month with unlimited mobility throughout the city....
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission last week created a wireless broadband access task force to help craft policies for fostering deployment of high-speed wireless Internet services in the United States. "We are strongly committed to facilitating broadband investment and deployment, particularly through technological choices," said...
WASHINGTON-Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit group Open Park Project launched a public outdoor wireless Internet hot spot on Capitol Hill. The free Wi-Fi service offers coverage in front of the Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and the Capitol Visitors' Center site. Open Park also announced...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Metro-scale Wi-Fi equipment provider Tropos Networks and wireless service provider Verge Wireless Networks announced Tropos' solutions are being deployed in the city of New Orleans for use by law enforcement agencies. The equipment is being used to build video surveillance wireless networks...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Tropos Networks, supplier of metro-scale Wi-Fi network equipment, announced former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt has joined its board of directors."The products developed by Tropos have the potential to accelerate the deployment of true mobile wireless broadband access," said Hundt. "The...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-Tropos Networks announced Lafayette, La.-based Syndeo Communications Group has chosen it to supply outdoor Wi-Fi equipment to build metro-scale Wi-Fi networks in rural areas in the southeastern United States. Syndeo plans to use Tropos' 5110 outdoor Wi-Fi cells, which can be mounted...
Even as wireless industry watchers debate whether Wi-Fi technology will be long for this Earth, the Wi-Fi business is preparing to send its wireless communication technology to another planet.Tropos Networks Inc. has been participating in National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research on the...
Even as wireless-industry watchers debate whether Wi-Fi technology will be long for this Earth, the Wi-Fi business is preparing to send its wireless communication technology to another planet.Tropos Networks Inc. has been participating in National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research on the feasibility...
SAN MATEO, Calif.-The San Mateo, Calif., Police Department is now using Tropos Networks Inc.'s metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network for law enforcement activities. With Tropos' equipment, the police force has created a Wi-Fi hot zone in downtown San Mateo, giving officers wireless access to critical...
Tropos Networks Inc. will supply equipment to enable Verge Wireless Networks Inc.'s metro-scale Wi-Fi network in downtown Baton Rouge, La. The Tropos system works like a mesh network in which Wi-Fi cells communicate with each other, creating paths back to just one wired node...
Tropos Networks Inc. will provide its Tropos Wi-Fi equipment to enable the deployment of a metro-scale Wi-Fi network in downtown Baton Rouge, La. The network will be managed by 802.11 services provider Verge Wireless Networks Inc. The Tropos system works like a mesh network...
Tropos Networks Inc., formerly operating in stealth mode as FHP Wireless Inc., has unveiled its new Tropos technology, products and services to enable metro-scale deployments of Wi-Fi technology, offering end users wireless broadband access to data from wide public areas. Tropos' goal is to...
Tropos Networks Inc., formerly operating in stealth mode as FHP Wireless Inc., has unveiled its new Tropos technology, products and services to enable metro-scale deployments of Wi-Fi technology, offering end users wireless broadband access to data from wide public areas. Tropos' goal is to...
