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Tropos announces multiband capability

Published Thursday, August 17, 2006

Wireless mesh-networking vendor Tropos Network today announced a new family of MetroMesh routers that represent the company’s foray into the multiband market. Traditionally operating in just the 2.4 GHz unlicensed band, the new Tropos 5320 MetroMesh router also includes a 5.8 GHz radio that supports 802.11a connections. With the two radios in the router, network designers have greater flexibility connecting nodes in the mesh, said Bert Williams, Tropos’ senior director of marketing. “If used efficiently—and that’s the key—it can be used to provide additional capacity to a network,” Williams said. “You can see a 50% increase in performance ...

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