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Motorola vs. The Competition

Competitor Products: Solution Offered

Tropos
Inexpensive meshed infrastructure product with excellent RF performance (advertise 1W) that connect with off the shelf devices. Product have battery backup, PoE, and Surge Suppression, Excellent Channel Partner Program & PR machine.

BellAire
Platform has dedicate backhaul to improve throughput, Attractive Housing, and Enterprise WLAN feature set.

Strix Systems
Ability to Add Radios, Multi radio Meshing provides for more throughput.

Cisco
Strong presence in the IT domain, Product based on light-weight architecture to reduce costs/price, talk about support 4.9 backhaul with an upgrade, indoor outdoor solution.

Competitor Products: Highlighting Their Deficiencies

Tropos

• Single radio design limits throughput – Just announce 4.9GHz

• No high speed motion, No client ad-hoc

• NO Mobility – Requires 3rd party S/W

• Spanning tree protocol results in slow re-convergence time upon node failure

BellAire

• NO high speed motion, No client ad-hoc

• NO Mobility – Requires 3rd party S/W

• Spanning tree protocol results in slow re-convergence time upon node failure

Strix Systems

• No high speed motion, No client ad-hoc

Cisco

• Centralized architecture (WCS) means there is a single point of failure and the backend is expensive

• NO MOTION/MOBILITY/Ad Hoc

• 4.9 is low power appears to be an afterthought

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