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Metro and Rural Networks

Access/One® Network OWS enables the deployment of 802.11 networks across large urban areas, rural counties and entire regions-ideal for government agencies, service providers, and mobile users who want uninterrupted service on a citywide basis. Unlike traditional access points that offer limited coverage within predefined hot spots, or single radio/single RF mesh solutions that won't scale, Access/One Network OWS provisions wireless hot zones that can extend over hundreds of square miles. The Access/One Network OWS delivers a high performance structured wireless mesh network infrastructure that delivers intelligence, scalability, security and unrivaled performance for large scale metro and rural networks.

OutDoor Network

Public Safety:

Police, fire, and other public safety departments have long been using wireless systems to provide network access for their employees. However, high costs of deployment and ongoing ownership with per use billing, and low data rates on the networks meant the networks were expensive to deploy and operate and resulted in only limited functionality. With the Access/One Network OWS, the public safety markets can deploy secure and manageable wireless networks in unlicensed spectrums that deliver the performance required to make the networks useful for voice, video, and data applications.

Public Access:

The public is clamoring for high speed internet access, so service providers and city governments are looking for ways to deploy that requested access to residents, businesses, and guests. Whether it is providing broadband access to underserved rural areas or competing with traditional wire line options, the Access/One Network is ideally suited for providing high-speed broadband access across large geographic regions. Access/One Networks can be installed for a fraction of the cost of more traditional high speed internet access options, and in far less time. Equally important the Access/One Network is capable of delivering high system capacity and low latency across the network, making it suitable for data, voice, and video applications.

Mixed Use Networks:

Wireless infrastructures in rural and urban environments are no longer limited to a single application, function, or user group. With the Strix Access/One Network governmental agencies or service providers can deploy wireless infrastructures to meet a number of usage scenarios. A single Strix Access/One Network can support multiple user types, such as police, fire, private city employee access, and public resident access. The ability of the Access/One Network to deliver significant bandwidth and low latency across the network, and securely segment and prioritize the varying types of user traffic, makes the network ideal for deploying these types of mixed use networking scenarios.

Strix Advantages:

  • Multi-radio nodes deliver performance - up to 6 radios per node, each dedicated for a specific function (ingress, egress, or client access) make the system capable of delivering high performance and low latency
  • Multi-channel and multi-RF support - radios operating in both the unlicensed 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz spectrums allows the network to separate user access and the mesh backbone, allowing the network to better adapt to interference
  • Voice, Video, and Data - Using the Virtual/Strix and Priority/One features the Access/One Network can support mixed use deployments where multiple user types securely share the same network, with traffic being priorities based on user class or traffic type
  • A High Multi-Hop Mesh - All the self-configuring, self-tuning, and self-healing advantages of a mesh network, but the ability to repeat traffic over multiple hops and still deliver high performance and low latency in the network.

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