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Features and Benefits

The PacketHop Communication System delivers affordable bandwidth, coverage and reliability for a variety of situations where broadband communications are required, for example:

  • Video or other high-bandwidth communications are needed.
  • Accessing video from CCTV or digital video surveillance systems to provide first responders and security agencies with video from inside a building or vehicle.
  • Two or more officers need to quickly share information at a routine situation to multiple agencies converging at a major incident.
  • Mobile Incident Management software and peer-to-peer communication increases officer or worker safety.
  • Autonomous communication is needed.
  • Mesh point mobility is required.
  • Wiring is impractical or too expensive.
  • The ability to bridge multiple networks or provide backup networks is required.
  • Mobile municipal service workers who need to share or get access to information in the field for code enforcement or utilities projects, etc.
  • Ad hoc or fixed video surveillance systems to monitor events and provide security.
  • A secure, authenticated, private network is required.

The PacketHop Communications System offers a variety of benefits beyond those provided by fixed networks or low-bandwidth radio communications systems.

Instant broadband network

  • Self-forming: Mesh network forms instantly and adapts automatically as users come into range.
  • Survivable: Provides communication without network infrastructure.
  • Highly scalable: The network becomes more resilient as new users join. There are no practical limits on the geography, number of users or agencies.
  • Excels at mobility: User connections can come and go during communication.
  • Autonomous: Works with or without connections to the Internet.
  • Performance: Proactive routing provides dependable network performance reduces latency and increases data throughput.

Software-based networking

  • Industry Standards: Works with standard off-the-shelf 802.11 a/b/g, 4.9 GHz and cellular data radios.
  • Reduces cost: Freedom from expensive infrastructure deployments substantially reduces costs.
  • Easy to deploy: Installs on standard laptops and servers. Does not require towers or wireless access points to deploy and operate.

Video multicasting

  • Protocols optimized for video streaming.
  • Optimized QoS (Quality of Service) for video transmission and multicasting.
  • View multiple videos from multiple sources over multiple hops in the mesh.
  • Multicasting greatly reduces the required bandwidth for every camera.

Standards-based design

  • Compatible -Works with readily available IEEE 802.11a/b/g commercial off-the-shelf radios to substantially reduce costs.
  • Future flexibility - Designed to be compatible with future standards such as 802.11s, 802.11n and WiMAX.

Multi-Layer security

  • Industry standard WPA2 authentication.
  • AES encryption and secure tunneling (VPN).
  • Application layer security with role-based user permissions.
  • Designed to be NIMS and FIPS 140-2 compliant for strong security.

Works with existing WiFi infrastructure and cellular data networks

  • High & low bandwidth remote participation: Cellular data or WiFi infrastructure, such as municipal WiFi, can be used to provide backhaul, allowing remote users to participate in a local mesh as if they were there at the scene.
  • Can be used to backhaul data when a backhaul connection is available. Connection to backhaul is not required for local mesh connectivity.
  • Remote participation: Remote personnel can participate as if they are on scene.
  • Provides redundant connectivity over multiple backhaul networks.

Interoperability

  • Agencies providing mutual aid or working on common projects who have disparate radio systems can use the PacketHop Communication System to interoperate, streamlining the mutual aid processes and communications and making personnel more effective.