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Another mesh company launches ... Meshhopper

A company with a good claim to be the true pioneer of wireless meshing will be exhibiting its "Meshhopper" technology at the WLAN Event; technology which, it says, it has been shipping for the past eighteen months.

But where rival LocustWorld mesh designs are aimed to be self-configuring and even flexible, allowing a community to share WiFi wireless links, BPO Solutions is more concerned to fill in "shadows" in a wireless site where reception would otherwise be lost. According to its press release, BPO Solutions Ltd, the launch of its new proprietary fixed-mesh routing technology for WLAN microsites will be announced at today's Wireless Lan Event at Olympia, London.

The company has also promised to follow this with even more startling announcements at the show.

"Until now, some WiFi industry observers and potential public sector and private sector customers have questioned whether line-of-sight and signal-in- shadow problems associated with WLANs could be overcome – both technically and at an affordable price. The BPO Solutions fixed-mesh offering successfully addresses these concerns," says the announcement.

Andy Coney, Chief Financial Officer of BPO, said, "Our proprietary technology is OEM compatible, easy to deploy and works with any standard WiFi components needed for a WLAN microsite."

BPO Solutions has almost concluded extended field test trials of a rural microsite deep in the UK countryside. The fixed-mesh technology delivers broadband connections beyond the commercially viable reach of telecoms and cable businesses. Using the BPO solution, connections are fast, robust and come at a fraction of the price charged by what are increasingly being seen as traditional wire and antennae mast operators.

BPO says it is currently negotiating second-round development funding for post-fixed mesh launch expansion and to launch other proprietary mesh technology in the coming weeks.

The company has also been exhibiting at CeBIT America in New York 18-20 June.