Tropos Networks and Netmotion Wireless Team to Provide Seamless Roaming Between Metro-Scale Wi-Fi and Wide Area Networks
Seattle, WA - NetMotion Wireless Inc., the market leader in mobility management solutions, and Tropos Networks, the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems, today announced a joint marketing agreement to provide secure, seamless and high-performance roaming solutions among metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks and wide area networks. The companies are leaders in their respective fields and are particularly dominant in the public safety sector. Their first joint installation is in the City of Milpitas, CA, where the combination of Tropos MetroMesh™ and NetMotion Mobility XE™ enables seamless roaming over the town’s entire 10-square-mile network for police officers, firefighters and other city workers.
“It is essential that our officers be able to move securely and seamlessly between our metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh network and our other wide area networks,” said Bill Marion, Information Services Director for the City of Milpitas. “We found the combined Tropos Networks — NetMotion Wireless solution to be affordable, easy to deploy and extremely reliable.”
Using Mobility XE software from NetMotion Wireless and Tropos MetroMesh routers, the City of Milpitas police officers and firefighters in the field have secure and seamless roaming access to critical applications such as the CalPhoto Database, DMV records and photos, hazardous materials databases, video surveillance and mobile dispatch applications, to name a few. Other municipal workers, such as building inspectors, traffic engineers and code enforcement officers, also have seamless roaming access to city and utility applications. Because of the joint solution, the city is able to use existing applications over wireless networks without expensive and time-consuming customization or modification.
“Like NetMotion Wireless, Tropos Networks has experienced rapid growth and market acceptance of its innovative solution,” said Andy Willett, senior vice president of sales for NetMotion Wireless. “This partnership will bring the power of our combined solutions to many new customers.”
“The integration of the Tropos and NetMotion Wireless solution combines best-of-breed, market-leading technologies to provide the kind of secure, reliable and seamless access to information that the public safety sector and others demand,” said Bert Williams, vice president of marketing at Tropos Networks. “The City of Milpitas is a testimony to our joint solution. We look forward to bringing its benefits to other markets and cities.”
In addition to Milpitas, the two companies will jointly promote and sell Tropos MetroMesh products and NetMotion Mobility XE software to other government and public safety agencies, municipalities and service providers.
About NetMotion Wireless Inc.
NetMotion Wireless is the developer of Mobility XE, an easily deployed, software-only mobile computing solution that enables mobile workers to get connected and stay connected to mission-critical applications over wireless networks. NetMotion Mobility XE enables mobile workers to operate as effectively on wireless networks as they do on wired ones—with secure, uninterrupted access to the same data and applications available on their desktop PCs. More than 500 leading organizations now use Mobility to eliminate the frustration and complexity of managing their mobile computing deployments. The company has won more than 20 awards, including Technology of the Year (Wireless Networking) from InfoWorld magazine, Business Product of the Year from the WSA, and Investors’ Choice/Most Likely to Succeed at the Technologic Partners’ Wireless Ventures conference. For more information about NetMotion Wireless or its products, please visit www.netmotionwireless.com, call (206) 691-5500, or write 701 N. 34th Street, Suite 250, Seattle, Wash. 98103.
About Tropos Networks, Inc.
Tropos Networks is the proven leader in delivering truly ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems. We deliver the fastest, lowest cost and simplest wireless broadband solutions, as demonstrated by the world’s largest installed base of metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networks. Our innovative and patented MetroMesh™ architecture allows public safety agencies, municipalities and service providers to quickly and easily deliver city-wide mobile broadband connectivity to users in any locale. With more than 10x better price/performance than alternative technologies, Tropos solutions provide standards-based access to any IP application, including voice, data and video. 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.
Tropos Networks, Tropos, MetroMesh, PWRP and Metro-Scale Mesh Networking Defined are trademarks of Tropos Networks, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder(s).
