Incident-area communications

PacketHop provides incident-area communications in the form of ad hoc networks for backhaul. We provide police communications and mobile ad hoc networks for EMS, fire, and tactical personnel as well. We know police communication has different needs than fire communication, but we also know that sometimes the different agencies need to be able to share a mobile ad hoc network between them.

Police and fire communications

Fire communication and police communication systems will need to be in use during utilities failures, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, traffic accidents and other situations where lives are on the line. Decisions matter - and the information you need to make those decisions can be securely shared through PacketHop's peer-to-peer networks. Make sure your tactical team and officers have the GPS positioning they need via server-less applications to allow information to be shared securely in real time. A DynaMesh peer-to-peer network is secure in 4.9 Ghz band for your police communication system. We'll give you public safety bands over a portable ad hoc network with our wireless mesh technology.

 
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PacketHop 802.11s Mesh Datasheet

The PacketHop 802.11s Mesh implements the draft IEEE 802.11s standard. The draft is projected to be finalized by the end of 2009. With its heritage as an innovator in mesh communications and as a member of 802.11s standards body, PacketHop is in a unique position to deliver a fully functional product today for OEM customers who need wireless mesh capability today.

The PacketHop Mesh is available as a standalone embeddable firmware module or as a part of a fully functional 802.11 product such as an Access Point (AP) or a client (STA). It is easily integrated into existing systems that require wireless mesh network functionality. It supports and seamlessly co-exists with legacy 802.11 networks and installations.

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Packethop Mesh

Use cases supported by PacketHop mesh include:

Enterprise networks deployed in office, factory floor, and warehouse environments to support line of business applications.

Home networks used for entertainment, games, Internet access.

Metropolitan area networks implementing backhaul and access capability for residential and business subscribers.

Industrial networks used for surveillance, public safety and security, sensors, process control, telematics, and industrial applications such as robotics.

Legacy support is available to support connectivity to the mesh of standard 802.11 stations (STA) or mesh connecting to standard 802.11 access points (APs) as a station.

Product Highlights:

Core Services include the functionality needed to implement the basic Mesh Point. These are the Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP), peer link discovery and state management, and interworking.

Security includes enterprise level authentication with 802.1x EAP with RADIUS support for interoperability with standard AAA servers.

Performance Optimization services are provided for enhancing service for specific use cases. Congestion control and synchronization enables operation of high throughput applications such as video and voice. Channel agility and transmit power control improve reliability in the presence of interfering sources (such as radar) and reduce interference with existing users on the same channel. The power save operation conserves battery life for portable devices.

Management applications enable configuration, monitoring, control of the mesh operation. These applications can be stand-alone or integrated with other applications. Various flavors can be supported: CLI, Web, and SNMP.

Product Features:

Standards Support
Compliant with the IEEE 802.11s Draft Standard and the upcoming WiFi Alliance Mesh Interoperability Profile

  • Future proofs products against obsolescence
  • Assures interoperability with other vendors products
  • Reduces costs
  • Allows use of COTS hardware

Portability
ANSI C implementation with small footprint

  • Easy to port to different operating systems
  • Easy to integrate with existing products such as 802.11 access points (APs), clients (STAs), embedded systems, sensors, video surveillance systems, process controls

Chipset Support
Atheros 802.11 chipset support

  • Allows operation in the unlicensed ISM (2.4GHz, 900MHz), U-NII (5.2-5.8GHz), DSRC (5.9GHz), Public Safety (4.9GHz, 700MHz), Licensed (2.7-3.7GHz) frequency bands
  • Other standard 802.11 chipsets can be easily supported

Operating Systems
Embedded and desktop operating system support

  • Linux
  • Windows XP SP2

Planned support for:

  • Windows Vista
  • Windows CE
  • VxWorks

Security
Standard security for mesh authentication and per-link encryption

  • Mesh Security Architecture (MSA) with 802.1x EAP and RADIUS
  • Secure Authentication of Equals (SAE) supports PSK authentication
  • AES 128 bit encryption
  • Support for hardware encryption
Packethop Mesh Firmware

Management API
IOCTL API for configuration, monitoring, and control of the mesh network. Sample management applications are included.

SDK
Development support for integration with existing products or development of new products

  • Object code license includes hardware and OS specific object module, documentation, sample management application source code
  • Source code license includes all of the above plus source code of the mesh module, build scripts, and the simulation environment

Hardware Requirements:

Host CPU

  • MIPS 180MHz
  • x86 233MHz (Geode)

System Memory

  • DRAM 16MB
  • FLASH 4MB

For More Information

For more information, please email us at sales@packethop.com, visit our website at www.packethop.com or call 1.650.292.5005.