Firetide this week unveiled tri-band capability of its HotPoint access points and HotClient clients. Firetide equipment now operate over the 2.4, 4.9 and 5 GHz bands.
According to Manish Chandra, the company’s product manager, more municipalities are investing in wireless surveillance over the licensed 4.9 GHz public safety band, as seen in deployments in Dallas, Boston, Phoenix, and West Palm Beach, Fla. The system was developed to support high-bandwidth communications, such as 20 Mb/s wireless offloads of recorded in-car video.
The tri-band capability lets law enforcement redirect all available bandwidth to public safety communications and enables municipalities to expand the capabilities of public safety video surveillance networks by adding access for the mobile workforce, he said.
Customers can also use the mesh infrastructure to select either 2.4 or 5 GHz access. The system’s management and control application lets network managers provide several levels of service by type of traffic—either video, VoIP or data—based on the client device.
The access points cost $695 (indoor)/$995 (outdoor), while the HotClient costs $295 (indoor)/$595 (outdoor), Chandra said.
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