[April 15, 2004] Former HUD Secretary and Vice-Presidential Candidate Jack Kemp to Head Tropos Networks Advisory Board SAN MATEO, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- April 15, 2004 -- Washington Veteran to Help Tropos Promote its Cost-Effective, Industry-Leading Metro Wi-Fi Solution Tropos Networks, a leading supplier of equipment used to build metro-scale Wi-Fi networks, today announced that Jack Kemp will chair the company's Advisory Board. Mr. Kemp currently serves on the Boards of several leading technology companies, including Oracle, InPhonic, EZGov, and SmartCOP. He will take an active role with Tropos, assisting in high-level sales and business development activities. "The tremendous price-performance and ease of use of Tropos metro-scale Wi-Fi products represents an enormous opportunity for our nation's cities and towns," said Mr. Kemp. "Metro-scale broadband will significantly improve public safety by bringing broadband security applications such as crime databases and video surveillance to police officers on the street. Additionally, the Tropos solution will enhance economic development in both urban and small town areas throughout the country." "We are extremely excited to have Jack's involvement with our company," said Ron Sege, Tropos Networks President and CEO. "He will enhance the tremendous momentum developing behind Metro-Scale Wi-Fi, as prospective customers increasingly become aware of the ease of deployment and low cost to own and operate these networks." Mr. Kemp is co-founder of Empower America, a non-profit organization dedicated to the exploration of public policy solutions that foster economic growth, individual responsibility, free trade, and free enterprise. In addition, Mr. Kemp currently serves as Chairman of the Board of FreeMarket Global, a global merchant banking, trading and investment company, Founder of Kemp Partners, a strategic consulting firm, and on the Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity, for whom he is Chairman of the More Than Houses campaign. Previously, Mr. Kemp was elected to nine terms in the United States House of Representatives, from Western New York. He served in the Cabinet of President George H. W. Bush as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, a post which he held for four years. In 1996, the Republican Party named Mr. Kemp its vice-presidential candidate, with Senator Bob Dole. Prior to Mr. Kemp's career in public service, he was a professional football quarterback. His football career spanned 13 years, mostly with the Buffalo Bills and San Diego Chargers. He led the Bills to two AFL championships and, in 1965, was awarded the AFL's Most Valuable Player Award. Additionally, he co-founded the AFL Players Association, to which he was elected president five times. Tropos products deliver city-wide mobile broadband access via a scalable, reliable and secure Wi-Fi infrastructure. The heart of the Tropos solution is a new class of product called a Wi-Fi cell, which layers patented routing intelligence on top of 802.11 standard Wi-Fi cells to form an economical, self-configuring and self-healing wireless broadband data network that forwards client data through a mesh along the highest throughput path to a wired network. The result is a high performance, large scale Wi-Fi deployment that costs a fraction of competing broadband systems to own and to operate. A Tropos system can be deployed at a multi-square-mile scale in a matter of days, providing an outdoor mobile broadband experience that is indistinguishable from indoor wireless and wired experiences. About Tropos Networks, Inc. Tropos Networks, Inc. is a leading supplier of systems used to build metro-scale, outdoor Wi-Fi networks. Tropos unique Wi-Fi cells, along with the first element manager to control large Wi-Fi networks, enable public agencies and service providers to deliver ubiquitous, city-wide mobile broadband to users in any locale. These carrier-class IP networks are low cost and easy to install and scale. The Tropos cellular mesh architecture and use of optimized open-standard radios dramatically reduce the need for wired backhaul while eliminating expensive proprietary clients and complex software. Using the patented Predictive Wireless Routing Protocol(TM), Tropos solutions deliver maximum bandwidth to the user regardless of conditions, at unprecedented Wi-Fi network scale. Tropos Networks is headquartered in San Mateo, California. For more information, please visit www.tropos.com, call 650-286-4250 or write to [email protected]. Tropos Networks and Tropos are trademarks of Tropos Networks, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holder(s). [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]