The Xfire Hoptun is a specialized rack-mount VPN tunnel terminator designed specifically for large-scale control channel termination services. Tunneling is a method of using an Internet infrastructure to transfer data for one network over another network. The data to be transferred can be the packets. Instead of sending a packet as it is produced by the originating node, the tunneling protocol encapsulates and encrypts the packet in an additional header. The additional header provides routing information so that the encapsulated and encrypted payload can traverse the intermediate Internet.

The encapsulated and encrypted packets are routed via the Xfire Hoptun, a VPN Tunnel Terminator, between Hopling Technologies devices (Xfire management servers and nodes) over the Internet. The logical path through which the encapsulated and encrypted packets travel through the Internet is called a tunnel. Once the encapsulated and encrypted frames reach their destination on the Internet, the frame is decapsulated and forwarded to its final destination. The Xfire Hoptun manages this entire process (encapsulation, transmission, and decapsulation of packets).

A mesh network is based on a centralized architecture. Unparalleled gateway functionality is provided via the Xfire Hopgate network access controller. Addressing, management, roaming, compression and security of a wireless mesh network based on meshed nodes can be managed using the Xfire Hopman network element manager, Hopling Technologies central management server. Although the mesh network can be run standalone, it is advisable to have a centralized management server when the network grows above a dozen nodes.  Every node requires separate control channel running from the mesh node to the central management server. Through this control channel the management server is able to communicate directly to each node.

As an addition Hopling Technologies offers the Xfire Hopbase network services manager, a web portal that provides functions such as Database-, DNS-, Login-, Radius-, VPN-services, and Bandwidth Control, with the Xnet Mark nodes or Xnet Viper nodes acting as radios and bridges.