Motorola Canopy is a wireless networking system designed for wireless Internet service providers to provide Internet access

Internet access

Many technologies and service plans for Internet access allow customers to connect to the Internet.Consumer use first became popular through dial-up connections in the 20th century....

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Product are available in point-to-point and point-to-multipoint

Point-to-multipoint

Point-to-multipoint communication is a term that is used in the telecommunications field which refers to communication which is accomplished via a specific and distinct type of one-to-many connection, providing multiple paths from a single location to multiple locations.Point-to-multipoint is often...

 configurations. It includes both the original Motorola-designed products using the Canopy protocol and the PtP backhaul

Backhaul (telecommunications)

In a hierarchical telecommunications network the backhaul portion of the network comprises the intermediate links between the core network, or backbone, of the network and the small subnetworks at the "edge" of the entire hierarchical network...

s that were rebranded from Orthogon Systems which Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

 acquired in 2006. Cambium Networks was created when Motorola Solutions sold the Canopy and Orthogon businesses in 2011.

A typical Canopy setup consists of a cluster of up to 6 co-located standard access points

Wireless access point

In computer networking, a wireless access point is a device that allows wireless devices to connect to a wired network using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or related standards...

 (APs), each with a 60 degree horizontal beamwidth

Beamwidth

In telecommunication, the term beamwidth has the following meanings:1. In the radio regime, of an antenna pattern, the angle between the half-power points of the main lobe, when referenced to the peak effective radiated power of the main lobe....

 antenna, to achieve 360 degree coverage.