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Tropos Networks has announced Tropos Insight 2.0, adding sophisticated new business analytics to its advanced MetroMesh analysis and optimization system. Tropos Insight 2.0 features essential new business analytics enabling operators to more effectively manage their networks, ensure a great user experience, deliver the applications that users want and enable new revenue streams.

With Tropos Insight 2.0, providers of citywide wireless service and municipalities with larger advanced networks have, for the first time, 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 business analytics used by Tropos Insight 2.0 are derived from statistics gathered from each router in the citywide mesh.

Uniquely, the collected data is pre-processed on each mesh router using Tropos’ patented Correlated Mesh Data Protocol (CMDP), ensuring minimal airtime usage during transfer over the network.

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

Because Tropos Insight 2.0 provides granular information about usage, times and location, advertisers can also determine the potential eyeballs on their ads at any given moment.

Municipalities can also better gauge the satisfaction of field workers by making sure 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. The new business reports provide executives with 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 Insight 2.0, part of the family of MetroMesh analysis and control tools that also includes Tropos Control and Tropos Drive, will begin shipping in March. Customers with valid Tropos support subscriptions can obtain updated software for their existing Tropos Insight at no additional cost.