GigaBeam Corp. and Tropos Networks announced on Wednesday that GigaBeam has become a preferred solution partner of Tropos, and that both have installed portions of the municipal Wi-Fi network in Mountain View, Calif. GigaBeam installed WiFiber wireless fiber for the backhaul, and Tropos installed its MetroMesh Wi-Fi product for the Wi-Fi mesh.
“We are excited to be working with GigaBeam, the global leader in 70-80GHz technology,” said Ron Sege, president and CEO of Tropos Networks. “Their 1gbps WiFiber throughput substantially increases the capacity of a Wi-Fi mesh network, enabling service providers to deliver multimegabit services and support bandwidth intensive applications for a very large number of subscribers on a metro scale.”
GigaBeam WiFiber products operate in the 71GHz - 76GHz and 81GHz - 86GHz radio spectrum bands. The company's technology, utilizing these large blocks of authorized contiguous spectrum, enables multi-gbps communications through use of gigabit Ethernet and other standard protocols. The current speed achieved by GigaBeam’s WiFiber G-1.25 product series is full duplex at 1gbps, which supports GigE protocol. GigaBeam recently announced its WiFiber G-2.7 series, to be released this year, which will operate at 2.7gbps. The protocols to be supported by the G-2.7 product series include 2 x gigE (2gbps x 1gbps), OC48/STM-16 (2.488gbps), SMPTE 292M (1.485gbps) and both 1gbps and 2gbps fiber channel. GigaBeam also plans deployment of future products capable of 10gbps, utilizing either the 10gigE or OC192 protocol standards.
GigaBeam’s WiFiber technology is similar to terrestrial fiber in terms of speed and reliability for deployment in MANS. However, WiFiber has a substantial advantage over terrestrial fiber because WiFiber can be deployed in a day and costs less to deploy than terrestrial fiber. Terrestrial fiber can take months to deploy and also require significant regulatory and environmental approvals prior to installation.
MetroMesh enables carriers, municipalities and public safety agencies to deliver citywide fixed- and mobile-multimegabit connectivity for IP-based voice, video and data applications.
GigaBeam Corp. www.gigabeam.com
Tropos Networks www.tropos.com
