Motorola announced the HotZone Duo mesh Wi-Fi product. Tropos Networks is developing the product and Motorola is reselling it.



Motorola has teamed up with Tropos to its Wi-Fi industry wide. Motorola teamed up with EarthLink’s deployments in Anaheim, Calif., New Orleans, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Motorola is only selling the technologies only. Motorola is planning to use the Tropos Wi-Fi access points. It is reselling under Motorola HotZone brand to provide wireless Internet access. It uses a Canopy fixed-radio product to aggregate this traffic and send it wirelessly to a backbone Internet network.



Now Motorola has introduced its own Wi-Fi product, HOT Zone Duo. In Tropos equipments, uses one radio to communicate with other access points, while HotZone Duo uses two radios.



The one radio uses the IEEE standard 802.11b/g, which transmits in the 2.4GHz spectrum to provide users with dedicated airwaves for accessing the Internet. The other radio uses 802.11a in the 5.8GHz spectrum, which provides connectivity between devices. HotZone Duo can increase the network by 100 percent.



Philadelphia and Anaheim have finalized the product, but other cities are still planning and testing. Motorola and Tropos are confronting each other but still Motorola is ready to sell the Tropos product.



Via: NEWS