1. Competitive Matrix
December 6, 2006

2. Approaches To Mesh Networking
All mesh should be self-configuring, self-tuning, and self-healing - But all mesh is not the same
Single Radio
Dual Radio
Multi-Radio
High Level Design
Single Radio for mesh backbone and client access
Single radio for mesh backbone, single radio for client access
Dedicated radios for ingress and egress in mesh backbone, dedicated radios for client access
Scalability
Extremely limited
Limited
Maximum
Latency over Hops
High
Medium High
Low
Throughput over Hops
Real Time Applications Support

3. Mesh Competitive Matrix
Performance
Scalability

4. Mesh Competitive Matrix

5. Competitive Overview Strix Tropos BelAir SkyPilot Cisco Motorola
Nortel
Mesh
Algorithm
Strix DMA™
WARP (IP Routing)
Spanning Tree
IP Routing and Spanning Tree
MeshConnex
High performance multi-radio mesh
Yes - dedicated radios for high performance backhaul
No dedicated radio (s) for backhaul shares single channel
Yes – requires manual configuration
No – single radio access, single radio backhaul
No- Single radio, b/a only on single channel for mesh
Coverage
Metro-Scale Mesh
Outside-In Coverage
Enterprise WLAN Extension
Metro-Scale
Modular Hardware
Yes No
Radio Technology
a, b, g, j, 4.9GHz A & C mask
a, b, g
a, b, g, 4.9GHz
up to 6 Radios
Yes – up to 6
No – 2
2 or 4 Max
No - 2
No – 1 or 2
Technology for Mesh backbone
802.11a, b or g
802.11b or g
5GHz
802.11a
802.11b or a

6. Competitive Overview Strix Tropos BelAir SkyPilot Cisco Motorola
Nortel
Fully Integrated System
Yes
No– requires external wired backhaul every 3-5 nodes
No - Requires Additional SkyPilot Gateway product
No – Requires Cisco Centralized Gateway Product
No – requires Motorola Canopy gateway
No – Requires Nortel Centralized Gateway Product
-98 dBm Receive Sensitivity No
Non Line-Of-Site
EIRP
27dBm
(EIRP increases/decreases with antennas)
36dBm
(EIRP includes antenna)
14-36dBm
Claim 26dBm to 44.5dBm (EIRP)
24 to 26dBm
36dBm (EIRP) NA
Lightening Protection
Maximum
Limited
Yes - B200
External Antenna Support

7. Competitive Overview Strix Tropos BelAir SkyPilot Cisco Motorola
Nortel
Support Standard Wi-Fi Clients
Yes
Session Persistent Client Mobility No
Metro-Scale Mobility
1000+ Node Scalability
Yes (P2P & P2MP)
Multi-Use Networks

8. Competitive Overview Strix Tropos BelAir SkyPilot Cisco Motorola
Nortel
Quality of Service
Yes- Priority/One™
Limited No
Support for broadcasting multiple BSSIDs and mapping to VLANs
Yes – individual MAC addresses per SSID no
SpectraLink Voice over WLAN support
Yes- SVP implemented in Strix code
Yes

9. Competitive Overview Strix Tropos BelAir SkyPilot Cisco Motorola
Nortel
Security
WEP, WPA, WPA2
WPA
N/A
WPA2
802.1x authentication support
Yes No
No- no client support
TKIP
AES
Yes – in mesh and to clients
Only for mesh backbone
802.11i ready
Strix
Tropos
BelAir
SkyPilot
Cisco
Motorola
Nortel
Fully Distributed Control
Yes No
Net Mgmt
SNMP, Radius, Web, CLI
SNMP, CLI
SNMP, Web, CLI
Mgmt Included
Must Purchase Management
Purchase (Gateway & NMS)