Trango introduces HD Mesh™,
a high-density metro-scale network backbone
The new HD Mesh™ system provides an innovative self-healing hi-speed backbone ring for improved reliability and broadband speeds that traditional mesh platforms cannot match.
The system incorporates multiple frequency bands, including the 4.9 GHz licensed band for safety personnel, first responders and homeland security applications.
Trango's HD Mesh wireless backbone radios are available in 4.9, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.8 GHz frequency bands. Each HD Mesh micro cell base station includes an environmentally controlled enclosure with thermostat controlled heater and fan, nine port router, and can support up to six additional Ethernet devices (cameras, access points, etc.). HD Mesh is also designed to support WiMAX-ready radios and 802.11g for WiFi hotspots. This highly flexible and scalable system is built to grow with the needs of any network and like all Trango equipment, HD Mesh is designed for easy installation and maintenance.
Trango's HD Mesh vs. Typical Mesh
Competitors Approach
A common objective of all mesh systems is to provide system redundancy in order to ensure up time. However, most mesh systems on the market take that objective to the extreme.
Some manufacturers' mesh systems are so complicated, interconnected and expensive that transmission speeds and reliability actually suffer. Typical mesh networks rely on the vailability of 'point-to-point-to-point' wireless repeating. Thus, the bandwidth available to each node of most mesh systems must be shared between providing Internet access or bandwidth for that node and providing the backbone link for other nodes. The more nodes you add, the lower the performance. This inefficient approach is costly to deploy and maintain. Furthermore, sending VOIP, surveillance video or other triple-play services over such complex networks is next to
impossible.
Trango's Approach
Trango's approach is different. To avoid the aforementioned downsides of mesh technology, Trango has developed a simpler mesh that maximizes up time reliability, while minimizing
the constraints on actual data throughput. We focus the fail-safe functions at the most important element of the network, the backbone . Maintaining a robust, hi-speed and redundant mesh backbone is the most critical aspect of the network. The result is that HD Mesh provides system performance and reliability well beyond that of competing technologies. |
