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November 08, 2007
Strix Systems Tapped For Deployment Of First Wireless Mesh Network In Greece
Municipality of Galatsi Uses Strix Access/One OWS in Network that Serves Businesses, Residents, and City
CALABASAS, Calif., May 30, 2007 – Strix Systems, the leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking, today announced that the municipality of Galatsi is using Strix’s Access/One® Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) to deploy the first wireless mesh network in Greece. Galatsi will provide fee-based broadband services to residents and businesses, free Internet access to students, and free Internet access and VoIP service for municipal employees. BGM Ltd., a wireless networking company based in Galatsi, has tested and deployed the Strix system, which covers an area of 4 sq. km. in the city center.
In fall of 2006, BGM deployed the first phase of the network. Due to the topology of the region, Strix OWS 2400 Series and OWS 3600 Series are particularly well suited to provide coverage over long distances and around buildings, hills, valleys, and forested areas. Galatsi is densely populated with 50,000 people, adding to the difficulty of providing wireless coverage in the city center and outlying areas. However, the combination of Strix’s high power output, directional and sectorization techniques, and Strix Dynamic Mesh Architecture ™ (Strix DMA™), which optimizes mesh networks, maximizes coverage areas to a radius of 300 to 400 meters.
The network’s primary high-speed connection in the city center enables high throughput in all nodes in the network; Strix Access/One nodes can achieve throughput of over 100 Mbps. The OWS 3600 Series nodes act as the central nodes for the network while the OWS 2400 nodes are mounted on buildings around the municipality.
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