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DropZone Networks, Inc.

Product Name

IntelliEdge Wireless Server

Market Segment

Funding

$300,000 investment from founder and initial private seed investor, who is serving as chairman and Seed Stage CEO. Launching a Series A VC round at DEMOmobile.

Competitors

Basic connectivity mesh network equipment vendors playing in the municipal market, but not others. Markets we are targeting include Tropos, Belair, and Skypilot.

Product Description

DropZone’s IntelliEdge Platform enables wireless mobile broad-band applications anywhere. IntelliEdge defines a new prod-uct class by combining a multi-protocol, self-powered wireless router and an application server in one package. By enabling running of intelligent applications and services on the edge of the network and operating on solar power, IntelliEdge address-es mesh network architecture latency and multi-hop deteriora-tion issues and opens up new strategic vistas and value propo-sitions for metroWLAN, WVoIP, ruralWLAN, and outdoor WLAN networks.

Market Opportunity

IntelliEdge addresses multi-billion dollar market opportunities by enabling applications that are not dependent on AC power, providing an alternative to enterprise rural security applications that require expensive backhaul and power infrastructures, and empowering service providers to provide wireless mobile high ARPU services, and rural VoIP, that drive faster ROI.

Demo Says

DropZone Networks would be interesting enough as a rapidly and cost-effectively deployed metro-area mesh network. A location-aware network in which each node has built-in GPS, DropZone Networks enables a range of edge-of-network applications that combine location and sensing to deliver new capabilities. It is the applications that build on the DropZone network that make this technology beyond interesting.