The City of Colleyville will use the area network primarily to establish a wireless link between the City's fire stations and the Public Works service center to the city backbone network. The network can support secure, high- speed wireless data, high-resolution streaming video, and voice communications to "First Responder" vehicles and will augment the city's existing network. The wireless network will "lay a blanket down" covering the 5 square miles with a mesh "grid".
Jack Harrod, CEO of MeshLinx, says, "We believe this is the first true multi-radio system in Texas and is among just a few deployed in the world today." The network is capable of providing high speeds in excess of 432Mb/sec in the network path connecting to the optical fiber backbone. It can hold that bandwidth with up to 9 node-to-node jumps to the fiber. This significantly reduces network cost by requiring fewer fiber connections while providing enough speed to for a "reasonable" mix of Voice/IP telephone calls, e-mails, and streaming video to anyone under the "blanket".
The MeshLinx Wireless solution incorporates mesh technology using Wi-Fi (802.11 IEEE standards). The network is interoperable with other Wi-Fi 802.11 equipment. As other standards like Wi-Max and 802-11n are approved and cost effective equipment becomes available, it will be incorporated, without disruption, into the network.
MeshLinx currently plans to demonstrate in Colleyville, the following applications going forward:
* Serve as a backbone for two fire stations as well as the ColleyvilleCivic Center and Public Works facilities.
* Provide a wireless "blanket" for first responders allowing high-speed access to the city network and the internet from their vehicle within the coverage area.
* Video Surveillance using wireless cameras and the ability to remotely monitor locations from within a vehicle.
* And others in the future.
What is multi-radio?
According to a company statement, MeshLinx uses three or more transceivers to deliver content. One is dedicated to Uplinking information; the second is dedicated to down linking information, while the third is dedicated to subscribers only. The MeshLinx advantages over single or dual radio systems in the area and other U.S. sites are enormous. MeshLinx needs far fewer wired Internet connections when compared to competitive systems.
The MeshLinx system's ability to transfer data and maintain bandwidth between 9 or more routers is superior to competitive systems. This advantage also gives the city significant cost savings reducing the number of backhaul wired connections to a minimum (MeshLinx needs 67% fewer wire/fiber gateways). MeshLinx Multi- Meshtm was developed to be a high performance wireless broadband network that can do it all, seamlessly integrating voice, video, and data while mobile. MeshLinx delivers a combination of high bandwidth and range that is superior to the MeshLinx competitors MeshLinx systems can handle more users, faster downloads as well as the ability to deliver reliable high bandwidth applications such as VoIP and HD streaming video.
