Strix Systems Access/One® - Indisputable Quality and Performance
Strix Systems is the worldwide award winning technology and global market leader in the wireless mesh broadband industry according to Infonetics, In-Stat and Heavy Reading, having the greatest number of radios shipped, supporting the widest range of applications and the greatest number of deployments for small to large-scale, strategic, tactical, transit, rural, municipal and metropolitan areas.
Strix Access/One was specifically designed to support high quality voice, video, and data in both fixed and mobile applications in large-scale deployments. Sold globally to service providers and municipalities in conjunction with its partner ecosystem, Strix Access/One solutions have been deployed in hundreds of networks worldwide, outdoor and indoor, in metropolitan, public safety, government, homeland security, medical, energy, industrial, transportation, hospitality, education, enterprise, and residential markets.
Strix Systems’ market leadership is derived from the strength of its products and by Strix commitment to enable the success of its municipal and service provider partners. Strix state-of-the-art multi-radio mesh networks are being deployed globally in a number of countries and in a variety of applications. Some notable examples include: Brookline Massaschusetts public safety and commerical access, The Sameer Group's Kenya Data Networks deployment of Strix Access/One into the largest four (4) cities in Kenya and forty two (42) sub-saharan countries in Africa, NTT West deployment of Strix Access/One family of products for enterprise and other customers in Japan. Lyfestyle Networks Ltd. installation of over one thousand (1000) radios in Mumbai India for competitive broadband access, Korea Telecoms integration of Strix Access/One into Beijing Public Security Bureau for mobile live streaming video surveillance, command and control for 2008 Olympic venues and more...
Not just an equipment provider: Strix Systems goal is to make our partners successful.
Strix Access/One carrier-class wireless mesh platform has been designed from the service provider perspective: to support multi-service business models, to make deployments easy and to make them cost efficient. This best-of-breed wireless mesh platform is coupled with the industry’s finest tier 1 professional services and an ecosystem of Systems Integrators and application partners to comprise Strix top to bottom approach. The Strix management team has pioneered the municipal WiFi market and is ready to assist municipalities and service providers in the full range of planning, footprint acquisition, design, and deployment undertakings
Strix Systems is a company that customers can depend on.
“Strix promised exceptional performance, and unlike many other vendors, delivered onits promise,” said Bill Bryant, Director of Sales, Datel Systems. “Once we tested Strix products, it was clear that only the Strix OWS could support Coaster’s demanding applications. In fact, we were able to implement more applications than we originally envisioned. Installing a Strix OWS is nearly as easy as installing a home wireless system. The entire Coaster OWS network was up and running in only three months, and that included setting up poles and getting power for the signaling equipment.”
“Planning and deploying wireless mesh networks in four large cities is a massive undertaking,” said Dr. Kai Wulff, Managing Director of Kenya Data Networks. “Strix support capabilities, plus its ability to help us determine a deployment roadmap as we expand throughout Kenya, were thus major factors in our decision to work with the company.”
“The Korean market has begun to be impressed with the seamless roaming, free mobility, and other benefits that mesh networks can offer,” said Henry Jung, Marketing Director, Broadwave. “KT chose Strix because its performance and reliability have been proven worldwide, and we expect the installation at the Westin Chosun Hotel Busan will lead to the deployment of Strix mesh networks in other cities.”
“Strix Systems wireless products have allowed our group to deploy rock solid data platforms capable of expanding in almost any direction. We needed wireless architecture based on “future proof” interoperable hardware for enterprise class IP video surveillance demands” said Will Ferris, CEO of Dotworkz Systems. “Strix outdoor wireless system architecture integrates seamlessly with our video surveillance solutions and is in use today for our municipal and public safety rollouts. We are happy with all things Strix and will continue to be a part of Strix distributed IP Video surveillance solutions for robust wireless network designs.”
Enabling Successful Deployments and Business Models
The Strix Systems platform advantage
Successful municipal networks must be capable of supporting multiple services in a rapidly evolving market; maximizing revenue, minimizing cost, and incorporating new technologies over a 5 to 10 year time horizon. The ability to support the rapid growth in voice services and multimedia video streaming in addition to enterprise-class data applications is essential. Furthermore, field upgradeability to accommodate subscriber density fluctuations, radical changes in service mix (e.g., cellular convergence) and new technology is critical to the success of the network.
Strix Access/One platform is designed to meet all these needs. The platform is based on the Strix DMA™ (Dynamic Mesh Architecture) and patented design: a layer 2 intelligent media-rate switching architecture with multiple radios available for subscriber access and 2 radios dedicated to backhaul. This 3rd generation architecture, unique in the industry, provides the robust high quality transport to carry voice, data and video traffic for up to an unparalleled 10 hops with minimal latency and little reduction in throughput. By contrast, first and second generation single and dual radio platforms are incapable of carrying traffic for more than a few hops without significant reduction in throughput and high latency. The Strix architecture has been incorporated into the product family of carrier class outdoor products, enterprise products and CPE.
Strix Access/One is the industry’s most cost effective wireless mesh platform delivering up to 3x more radios per square mile at a lower overall cost (TCO) than any other system.
The platform is deployed in mesh sectors of up to 100 nodes from a single Internet backhaul location. This materially reduces site acquisition time, cost and complexity, substantially reduces time to market and results in the industry’s lowest TCO. No other platform can match this capability.
The industry’s only modular (chassis-based) system: delivering the largest capacity, highest throughput and lowest latency to support voice, data and video applications.
Strix OWS is field upgradeable to six (6) radios in a compact chassis with a variety of antenna options. Up to four radios can be dedicated to subscriber access: thus enabling a substantial increase in in-building penetration (with sector antennas) and supporting a 3x increase in subscriber density. In addition, the introduction of new technology (WiMAX, 4.9 GHz) is easily accomplished, without a fork-lift upgrade.
The Strix platform is proven in large scale deployments and by independent test labs. These tests conclusively show Strix as the industry’s best performing wireless mesh network platform; maintaining continous throughput of 35 Mb/s over multiple hops, supporting substantial VoIP call volumes with excellent quality ratings (MOS=5) in the presence of high-bandwidth data. In addition, mobility handoff is below the 50 millisecond delay stipulated by telecom operators, thus enabling full mobility as well as high speed rail deployments exceeding 200 mph.
“Strix demonstrated the strength of its multi-radio solution in all of the areas we tested. Its OWS received four and five star ratings in each of the tests, the maximum allowed by Iometrix," said Bob Mandeville, President of Iometrix. “Strix took on the industry’s first wireless mesh test and posted a solid set of results that service providers, municipalities, and outdoor enterprises should certainly take note of.”
The platform is designed for zero-configuration and scaling for country-wide deployments. Easily managed, Strix graphical and command-line interfaces (CLI) enable quick visual management and detailed statistics to provide complete network awareness. Strix products provide hardware-accelerated automatic AES encryption between wireless nodes and Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) security for client access.
Future Convergence
With the introduction of WiFi phones and dual-mode Cellular/WiFi phones, the increased use of video surveillance and other video and interactive multimedia content, convergence is just around the corner. Strix Systems is uniquely qualified to address the converged services opportunity with its robust high performance architecture that enables true multi-service broadband access with 100% reach-ability and 100% mobility without boundaries.
The Features and benefits
Industry’s Highest Performance
Independent tests (Iometrix) prove Strix Systems leadership as the industry’s highest performance wireless mesh network system.
Benefit: The delivery a broad range of high performance voice, video and data services with minimal infrastructure costs.
Industry’s Lowest Latency
Proven through independent testing and customer deployments, Strix Access/One is the industry’s lowest latency wireless mesh network system.
Benefit: The industry’s lowest latency supporting the largest-scale deployments of timing sensitive applications such as voice over ip at the highest achievable quality.
Any Radio, Any Configuration
Strix Access/One is the industry leader in wireless network technologies enabling any radio technology in any configuration in a modular chassis-based system.
Benefit: Flexible deployments using any radio, any technology, any channels in any configuration for wireless backhaul and client access.
Greatest Multi-hop Coverage
Strix Access/One offers the highest performance and range to achieve the greatest number of wireless hops with the industry’s highest sustained throughput.
Benefit: Strix Access/One maximizes the revenue potential and minimizes the cost of network infrastructure and operations for the industry’s most compelling total cost of ownership (TCO).
Highest Capacity and Scalability
Up to 6 radios can be added to a node, each serving a unique purposes—ingress or egress in the mesh backbone and access for clients.
Benefit: Unparalleled performance across vast wireless hops and scaling to up to 6 radios per node increasing user or backhaul capacity with fewer wireless nodes required per square mile.
High-Speed Fast Roaming
Strix Access/One is the only wireless mesh network solution to support high-speed mobile roaming.
Benefit: Roaming from node to node in excess of200MPH. High speed, high quality voice, video streaming and data access for even the fastest transportation systems.
Carrier-Class Quality Of Service
Strix Virtual/Strix™ and Priority/One™ enable each wireless mesh link to be fine tuned and groomed, increasing the value and revenue potential of the network.
Benefit: Hardware accelerated performance; encryption and QoS priority assignment enables defined classes of service.
Highly Resilient Mesh Networks
Strix Access/One is the industry leader in modular wireless mesh networking technologies enabling automatic mesh configuration, self-tuning and carrier-class resilience.
Benefit: Strix Access/One is the industry’s only “in-field” modular solution enabling the fastest network deployments, quick customer turn-up, application grooming and unequaled long-term cost efficiencies
Successful worldwide deployments prove Strix technology leadership and top to bottom approach. Strix is committed to enabling the success of its municipal and service provider partners.
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