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Firetide announces 'Fastest' Indoor / Outdoor Mesh gear

Tim Higgins

January 22, 2007

Wireless mesh company Firetide today announced its new HotPort 6000 indoor and outdoor mesh nodes featuring a dual radio backhaul.

The HotPort 6000 mesh nodes feature high-powered radios that support both licensed and unlicensed bands, eliminating the need to purchase and install separate radios for each spectrum. Bandwidth for both radios can be combined to provide 70 Mbps throughput for "fat" point-to-point backhaul links or for high-resolution video surveillance networks. The radios can also be set to deliver a sustained 35 Mbps bandwidth across an unlimited number of hops if a multi-hop or linear network topology is required.

Firetide has multiple patents on the technology that controls traffic on the dual radio backhaul and enables the mesh to be used for a broad range of services and applications. The technologies covered by these patents include radio packet switching, topology balancing, and radio channel allocation.

The HotPort 6000 mesh nodes will be available for delivery by March 1. Pricing was not given.

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