Strix Leads Wireless Mesh

CALABASAS, Calif. -- Strix Systems, the leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking, today announced that it has shipped more mesh radios than any other vendor in both 2005 and 1H2006, according to Wireless Mesh Equipment Market Tracker published by Heavy Reading, the research division of Light Reading, Inc. The company has shipped a total of 32,100 radios: 16,000 in 2005 since it began shipping the Access/One® Network Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) in April 2005, and another 16,100 in the first six months of 2006.

The Wireless Mesh Equipment Market Tracker report noted that worldwide sales of wireless mesh equipment are expected to grow by more than 100 percent in 2006, and that the market's cumulative revenue will approach $1 billion by the end of 2008. As the market grows, it is shifting from sales to small WISPs, municipal authorities, and enterprises to carriers, which will account for 40 percent of the market in 2008.

"As large-scale mesh deployments increase and mesh technologies advance, radios shipped will increase in importance as an indicator of system capacity and vendor success," said Patrick Donegan, Senior Analyst at Heavy Reading and creator of the Wireless Mesh Equipment Market Tracker. "By shipping a high capacity, multiradio, product in significant volume from day one, Strix has taken a leadership position in terms of that market share benchmark."

"We are pleased to be the market leader in the wireless mesh network market," said Nan Chen, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Strix. "It reflects the market's rapid adoption of the third-generation multi-radio wireless mesh architecture, which dedicates separate radios to access and backhaul of ingress and egress. Single- and dual-radio approaches are limited in scalability and performance and offer no practical support of real-time applications such as voice and video. As the market leader, it's our responsibility to continue to provide our customers with the industry's most scalable, flexible, and future-proof solution, which only a multi-radio, carrier-class system can provide. Strix Access/One operates in any carrier environment and provides capabilities crucial to carriers as they become a dominant force in the wireless mesh network market."

Strix Systems Inc.