With the uptick in municipal wireless, Tropos Networks is on fire this week. Oklahoma City announced an award of $3.8 million to outfit the entire city and public vehicles with Tropos equipment, creating a 400 square-mile network for use in public safety communications. The Wi-Fi project is part of an overall $78 million bond to replace the current communications system.
Tropos will provide the city with about 600 fixed wireless base stations mounted on light poles throughout the city and about 700-750 of Tropos' new 4210 mobile Wi-Fi cells installed in police and fire vehicles. With Wi-Fi's greater bandwidth, police and fire officers will have access to high-resolution photos, incident video feeds, crime databases, mapping systems and structural plans from their vehicles.
(Thanks John!)
