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Firetide Unveils New Non-Line-of-Sight, 'Smart Adaptive' Wireless Infrastructure Mesh
Jun 29, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) --
Firetide, a provider of wireless infrastructure mesh networks, announced the new HotPort 6000-900 non-line-of-sight wireless "Smart Adaptive" infrastructure mesh solution - the company's first product to operate in a 900 MHz spectrum to enable high bandwidth applications in challenging environments.
Target markets include utilities, public safety, transportation and industrial, wherever clear line-of-sight cannot be obtained.
"The new 900 MHz solution addresses the need for non-line-of-sight applications in our core public safety, transportation and industrial markets. It also opens up a new market opportunity for us with utilities that can now use the Firetide infrastructure mesh architecture in difficult environments," said Bo Larsson, chief executive officer of Firetide. "This is our first step in addressing Smart Grid opportunities where we see Firetide's unique infrastructure mesh providing an attractive price and performance network for Smart Grid applications."
Firetide stated that with the new HotPort 6000-900, users with non-line-of-sight locations can now deploy multi-hop, fully meshed networks and receive its benefits of redundancy and load balancing, thereby improving the reliability of their network and avoiding any single points of failure. The product enables bandwidth intensive applications such as video surveillance and broadband access traffic and extends mesh reliability, performance and services into these difficult environments. The HotPort 6000-900 also delivers the industry's highest throughput, according to the company, up to 26 Mbps, depending on line of sight conditions.
HotPort 6000-900 mesh is designed for noisy 900 MHz spectrum and introduces Firetide's Smart Adaptive Mesh technology to mitigate the effects of interference that typically bring down wireless throughput and reliability in this band. For example, Firetide's noise-aware data path and noise filtering algorithms enable mesh to better handle interference from other 900 MHz devices, as well as from adjacent frequency bands taken up by cellular and 3G traffic. Tools such as the spectrum analyzer, which is integrated into the product, allow a network administrator to remotely monitor the health of the network and take actions to further optimize the network performance.
The HotPort 6000-900 mesh is part of and fully compatible with the HotPort 6000 series of mesh nodes that provide reliable Ethernet connectivity over a high-performance, self-forming wireless mesh backbone. All HotPort nodes have multiple Ethernet ports for connecting network devices or other networks to the wireless mesh. With HotPort 6000 nodes, the company said that users can build a single infrastructure for voice, video and data traffic, reducing capital investment in the wireless backbone.
The 900 MHz product features a dual radio solution with the capability of operating in the 900 MHz spectrum on one of the radios, while operating in the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz or 4.9 GHz (public safety) frequency bands on the other. The solution is available immediately in both indoor and outdoor configurations.
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