PRODUCTS

Tropos provides a complete line of market leading outdoor wireless broadband mesh network solutions that provide customers with the reliability, performance, scalability, and security needed to build Smart Cities and Smart Grids. 

Routers
Tropos’ wireless broadband mesh routers combine the industry's most sophisticated mesh networking intelligence with purpose-built hardware. Each router includes one or more open-standards-based 802.11 a/b/g/n radios optimized for outdoor usage.  The router enclosures are ruggedized and weatherized to withstand extreme weather conditions.  Fixed and mobile nodes are available and can be mixed on a single network to create a mesh with dynamic coverage areas.

Tropos Mesh OS
The Tropos Mesh OS ships as an integral part of each Tropos router and was designed from the ground up to optimize throughput and reliability in a dynamic outdoor wireless environment.  The Tropos Mesh OS creates a self-organizing and self-healing wireless mesh network and intelligently selects the optimum path through the mesh.  It leverages the router’s on-board intelligence to monitor and maximize performance, minimizes network congestion and adapts in real-time basis to changes common in an outdoor network environment. 

Network Management
Tropos’ network management solutions are designed to provide network administrators with the visibility, information, analysis, and reports for all aspects of management, monitoring and controlling a Tropos wireless broadband network.  .  It is Powerful control and analysis tools, allowing network administrators to perform a range of critical functions to configure, monitor and operate the network.  This includes over-the-air configuration and software updates of Tropos mesh routers; real-time end-to-end network performance monitoring and statistical capture; data mining, trend analysis and client connectivity monitoring.

Tropos System Architecture
Tropos’ products utilize the Tropos System Architecture which is based upon industry standards and designed for superior capacity, resiliency, security and scalability.  It is a decentralized, highly flexible architecture that enables each Tropos router to make coordinated routing and airtime management decisions in real-time, maximizing bandwidth and system performance by eliminating the latency and overhead associated with a centralized architecture. It eliminates single points of failure by automatically rerouting traffic around problems, minimizing downtime. Multi-layer standards-based security protects the network, data and users. Tropos line of routers and network management platform are FIPS 140-2 certified. The Tropos System Architecture easily scales from tens to hundreds and even thousands of routers participating in a single mesh network with fixed and mobile nodes. Tropos has been granted 30 patents and has more than 29 in-process related to mesh networking technologies that have been integrated into the Tropos System Architecture.

Tropos has developed two network architectures based upon the Tropos System Architecture:

• MetroMesh is Tropos’ network architecture for Smart Cities, providing a single metro-area wireless broadband network for many municipal applications over a single network.
• GridCom  is Tropos’ network architecture for Smart Grids, enabling utilities to build a WAN aggregation network that easily scales to handle multiple applications over a reliable, secure wireless broadband network.