Tropos 5320 Outdoor Mesh Router

Tropos? System Architecture delivers the
maximum scalability, high capacity, reliability,
and security demanded by customers. Tropos
Architecture combines the innovative and
patented Tropos Mesh OS, the industrys
most sophisticated metro-scale mesh routing
intelligence, with Tropos operation and
optimization tools, which provide centralized
visibility, analysis and control, and purposebuilt
Tropos routers with peerless 802.11
radio performance. Tropos complete solution
enables city-wide fi xed and mobile multimegabit
connectivity for IP-based voice, video
and data applications.
The Tropos Mesh OS, including the Predictive
Wireless Routing Protocol (PWRP?) is the
industrys most scalable mesh routing
algorithm. The Tropos 5320 outdoor mesh
router is a dual-radio router that uses 802.11a
and 802.11b/g links to form the mesh and
uses 802.11b/g to provide client coverage and
connectivity. Utilizing the embedded PWRP,
the Tropos 5320 creates a self-organizing and
self-healing wireless mesh that intelligently
selects the optimum end-to-end data path
through the mesh. Because the Tropos Mesh
OS never requires more than 5% of available
bandwidth, networks can be scaled to many
thousand nodes without client throughput
or network capacity degradation. Tropos
Mesh OS dynamically uses 5 GHz links to
improve performance while not unnecessarily
increasing the router density or sacrifi cing
reliability. In this
way, the Tropos
5320 and Tropos
Mesh OS combine
to leverage
the benefi ts of
using additional
spectrum
to increase
capacity while
eliminating the
pitfalls of the
5 GHz, line-ofsight,
spectrum.
The Tropos 5320 maximizes return on the
investment, as the software, management
and hardware combine to enable the
operation of multiple independent networks
on a single metro-scale mesh infrastructure.
Individual departments can operate
independently on the network, segregating
information access applicaations, and access
levels.
Tropos routers require only power and can
be deployed anywhere it is available. Each
router provides wireless connectivity to
standard 802.11b/g clients and extends
the coverage area of the metro-scale mesh