Strix Systems Wins VON Magazine Innovator Award

Strix Systems today announced that it has received a 2008 VON Magazine Innovator Award, which is the foremost listing of innovative companies that represent the future of the Internet Communications industry. Strix Systems has been named to the list due to the technical achievements of its Access/One Edge Wireless System (EWS) complementing the innovations of Strix Outdoor Wireless System (OWS).

Strix Systems is the manufacturer of the Strix Access/One wireless mesh network family of modular outdoor, edge, indoor, and high-speed mobile system products designed for U.S. and International service providers, city-wide deployments and outdoor mobile enterprise markets. Strix patented innovations in mesh networking have allowed Strix Access/One products to achieve the industry's highest performing modular multi-radio outdoor and indoor mesh, edge access and mobile wireless broadband systems on the market for IP communications.

Supported by outdoor wireless mesh networks comprised of Strix Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) nodes, Strix Systems Edge Wireless System (EWS) 150 powered by Strix Edge is the enabler for high performance end-user subscriber wireless broadband access. The EWS is a multi-megabit, multi-RF, multi-channel mesh extension delivering the highest performance with a ~forty-fold~ increase in power in comparison to laptops and other CPE. The EWS sets the standard for low-cost, high-powered CPE achieving the greatest range and offering a host of features including dual diversity, multiple VLANS with defined Quality of Service (QoS), the greatest number of VLANS over a single SSID, VLANS over Ethernet and enhanced VLAN management, and configurable minimum and maximum data rate and range for enhanced control for network performance engineering.

"The VON Magazine Innovator Awards recognizes the Internet Communications industry's best and brightest companies, and we're pleased to include Strix Systems as an inaugural winner," said Doug Mohney, editor-in-chief of VON Magazine and Chairman of the VON Innovator Awards Program. "Companies like Strix Systems should take pride in their accomplishments, because the selection committee unanimously felt as though Strix Systems stood apart from the large field of companies that participated in the nomination process."