PacketHop to Launch Mobile Broadband Communications Solution

August 13, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - PacketHop, Inc announced it has signed a joint marketing agreement with Nortel Networks (nortelnetworks.com), the industry's first supplier of wireless networks operating in all advanced radio technologies and the only end-to-end provider of all next generation wireless solutions.

Under the agreement, the companies will co-market their combined mobile communications solutions and will initially target the US$11 billion homeland security market to facilitate the rapid deployment of a secure, ubiquitous mobile communications network among law enforcement and public safety agencies.

"The Nortel Networks relationship is a critical element in PacketHop's go-to-market strategy as we prepare for the commercial launch of our secure mobile mesh networking products," said Michael Howse, president and CEO of PacketHop.
"PacketHop's mobile mesh system will further optimize and extend the value of our Wireless Mesh Network solution to homeland security customers," said Mark Whitton, general manager, Wireless LAN Solutions at Nortel Networks.

To meet the demands required to support homeland security applications in mere seconds, Nortel Networks and PacketHop are offering a solution that brings secure wireless broadband communications to emergency response teams in times of crisis through attributes of flexibility and rapid deployment.

The PacketHop applications deliver truly distributed video, whiteboarding, mapping and messaging functionality and do not require a centralized server.

Nortel Networks Wireless Mesh Network portfolio consists of Wireless Access Point 7220, Wireless Gateway 7250 and Nortel Networks Optivity* Network Management system. This solution is intended to deliver secure, wireless broadband services that can provide a cost-effective method for extending wireless LAN coverage more broadly into business and end-user markets and enable indoor and outdoor access.

PacketHop develops mobile broadband networking products that deliver high network availability, enhanced coverage, security, quality of service, efficient cost performance, and real-time peer-to-peer communications to serve a wide range of markets. PacketHop's secure mobile mesh networking software loads easily onto virtually all standard IP radio equipped devices like laptops, PDAs and tablets enabling a mobile broadband network to be created instantly.