Strix Professional Services for wireless mesh network deployments
As the leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking, Strix Systems extends its carrier-grade Pro/One professional services organization, its range of technical services and Strix Power/One training to provide a complete turnkey service in the U.S and worldwide for the deployment of Strix’s Access/One® Network Outdoor Wireless Systems (OWS).Strix and its Channel/One™ partners have designed and deployed the largest and most diverse operational wireless mesh networks in the U.S. and the world utilizing Strix Professional Services. Strix Systems expertise, relationships and experience helps our partners transform their business for increased profitability and competitiveness, and enables them to more rapidly adapt to changes in the market.
Strix Professional Services designed, deployed and optimized the the city of Tempe, Arizona, the largest and most successful operational wireless mesh network in the U.S., with more than 3,000 radios deployed in only 120 days. Adjacent cities of Chandler and Gilbert, when complete, will serve a wireless mesh area of 200 square miles.
| Strix Professional Services enabled this network for public safety including police, fire, emergency medical transport and hospital communications as well as providing | |
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access to public works employees for applications such as building inspection and meter reading. Mobile surveillance, command vehicle communications and homeland security applications were also and important part of the services delivered. Simultaneously businesses and residents are provided free and paid Internet access services. |
Strix Systems highly skilled team provides professional services including: technical assessment, design, integration and deployment for the largest U.S. and International service providers delivering not only internet access, but enterprise-class services over wireless mesh networks delivered to businesses, residences and mobile users. And in Asia, the Strix Professional Services is assisting partners to deploy the world’s largest wireless mesh networks in one of the world’s most populous cities.
“The rapid global growth of the wireless mesh market and the increasing number of service providers deploying our systems require us to use our professional services team to offer integration services to our customers,” said Tom Mooreland, Vice President of Strategic Sales and Development. “Wireless mesh networks are a new technology, and deploying them requires a tremendousamount of overall knowledge. Strix is the first to truly master this knowledge, and our level of expertise is the best in the industry. We’ve gained carrier-class experience from the world’s largest-scale deployments, and we’ve developed a well-oiled services machine. Now we’re using that experience to help customers around the world deploy our networks and to train their engineers to maintain and expand them.”
Support Ranges from Design to Fine Tuning
The Strix professional service organization gives customers the technical support they need, from design and deployment to fine-tuning wireless mesh networks before they become operational and/or optimized. The organization also provides ongoing support for customers on an as-needed basis and helps plan and install expansions to existing OWS networks. Strix’s turnkey service includes configuration, integration, deployment, and fine-tuning of OWS mesh networks to help service provider customers achieve their technical and business goals on time.
“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’s 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 service organization has worked closely with KDN as we ramp up our mesh networks, and it has more than lived up to our expectations.”
“Tempe was the first city to roll out its wireless mesh network, and Strix played a strategic role in enabling that to happen,” said David Heck, Deputy CIO of the City of Tempe. “Strix’s engineering talent and dedication meant that the city was able to bring up its network quickly and expand it beyond Tempe.” |
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“Strix’s support organization is great; my calls were answered quickly, and if follow up was required, the same person called me back,” said Francisco Cuellar, network engineer at iPortUSA, which has deployed a Strix wireless mesh network in the Gas Lamp section of San Diego. “I really felt that there was a person in the company’s support group who was serving me.”
Strix Professional Services is state-of-the in the design and deployment of wireless mesh networks:
- Technology Assessment: Assessment of technological and business objectives and careful meet the defined set of objectives. This includes the use of Strix optimal multi-radio access and backhaul technologies to gain the highest throughput, lowest latency and meet short as well as long-term cost savings objectives.
- Network Planning and Design: Identification and definition of requirements, link budget analysis, preliminary interim and final designs, frequency planning, performance, capacity estimates and assess alternative options to aid in the development of the final network design.
- Network Integration and Deployment: Site survey, RF exposure analysis, link budget analysis, frequency planning, traffic analysis, performance and capacity estimates, network deployment support, antenna placement and alignment.
- Network Optimization: Network performance, frequency and capacity planning, handoff parameter and system performance analysis, capacity /handoff/ drop/ block performance review, drive testing, single site and cluster testing.
Strix Technical Services provide customers with the care needed on an as-needed basis to help plan and install expansions to existing OWS networks. This turnkey service includes configuration, integration, deployment, and fine-tuning of OWS mesh networks to help service provider customers achieve their technical and business goals on time, every time.
| To immediately take advantage Strix Professional Services for your wireless mesh network please call 1-877-STRIXSYS or send your request to sales@strixsystems.com |  |
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