Tropos Networks joins WiMAX Forum

Tropos Networks, the leading supplier of equipment used to build metro-scale broadband wireless networks, announced today it has become a Principal Member of the WiMAX Forum(TM), a non-profit corporation formed to help promote the IEEE 802.16 standard and certify the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless access equipment. Tropos Networks is the first metro-scale Wi-Fi mesh networking systems vendor to join the WiMAX Forum, embracing the emerging 802.16 standard as an important technology for evolving metro-scale wireless broadband networks.