Firetide, Inc.'s high-performance HotPort mesh network received the “Best of Show” award for wireless technology at the 2005 Interop conference held in Tokyo this week. The award is given to the most innovative leaders in 14 categories representing products, solutions, or services that change the landscape in network environments.

The HotPort high performance mesh network system allows standard voice, video and data applications to operate both indoors and outdoors over a high capacity wireless mesh backbone. The HotPort mesh network includes a hardware platform, mesh management software and advanced networking features that maximize performance, scalability, and ease of use.

HotPort networks are designed to be ideal for environments such as hotels, airports, convention centers, municipalities, warehouses, and other campus environments where structured wiring such as Ethernet or fiber cabling is too difficult or costly to install.

“Receiving this award is validation that wireless mesh networking is a global trend,” said Bo Larsson, CEO of Firetide. “Customers can now run their businesses more efficiently, can offer Wi-Fi capabilities anywhere, and can provide video mesh services for security or webcasting in any location. This is truly a new generation of technology that moves us closer to anywhere, anytime networking.” 

Firetide has also received Red Herring’s 2004 “Top 100 Innovators Award”, was a finalist for Best of Interop at N + I in 2004, and was awarded Wi-Fi Planet's “Best of Show” in 2003.

HotPort Mesh Network Overview