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Tropos Networks has added sophisticated new business analytics to their advanced MetroMesh analysis and optimization system with the release of Tropos Insight 2.0.

Operators can use the essential new business analytics features of the Tropos Insight 2.0 to more effectively manage their networks, ensure a great user experience, deliver the applications that users want and enable new revenue streams.

Thanks to the new release, the providers of citywide wireless service and municipalities with larger advanced networks now have vital business statistics collected at the very edge of the mesh network, such as location, usage patterns and trends, capacity and performance, subscriber activity and client devices, service levels, and geography.

The Tropos Insight 2.0 uses business analytics that is derived from statistics gathered from each router in the citywide mesh. Using Tropos’ patented Correlated Mesh Data Protocol, the collected data is pre-processed on each mesh router. This ensures minimal airtime usage during transfer over the network.

Different business models and applications are being applied to metro wireless networks worldwide, be they ad- or content-sponsored, subscriber sponsored, private or multi-use services. Thus the ability to mine the network and usage data at the network edge is particularly significant.

“With Tropos Insight 2.0, operators of these networks now have the important business analytics, network history and trend information from the network edge that allows them to plan, support and market their WiFi services to meet their business objectives no matter what business model they are using,” said Ron Sege, president and CEO of Tropos Networks, in a press release.

Sege said that with Tropos Insight 2.0 they have discovered that the typical 10 to 15 square mile MetroMesh network supports 1,550 users each day and 2,640 unique users each week, using 50 - 150 unique device types per day.

“In aggregate, these users download 100GB of information per day, the equivalent of 1 million web pages or 25,000 mp3 files. Importantly, we are able to gather and transmit this business information using a very small amount of airtime because of our Correlated Mesh Data Protocol,” he said.

Advertisers can also determine the potential eyeballs on their ads at any given moment because Tropos Insight 2.0 provides granular information about usage, times and location. Municipalities now have the ability to better gauge the satisfaction of field workers. They achieve this by ensuring that they have enough capacity to map to their usage patterns and at peak times when applications such as automatic meter reading or telemetry are in use.

With new expert-level business analytic reports Tropos Insight 2.0 extends network optimization capabilities thus providing a new class of business and information management capabilities. Executives can use the new business reports to have both macro level visibility and granular detail on key performance indicators from the very edge of the network, such as network usage by clients, client link quality, network capacity and reliability, subscriber activity, service levels and the level of user experience.

Tropos Networks delivers metro-scale WiFi (News - Alert) mesh network systems.

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Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet, covering call centers, CRM and information technology. To see more of her articles, please visit her columnist page.

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