Strix OWS Delivered Highest Performance Exceeding Evaluation Criteria for Streaming High Bandwidth Megapixel Video While Moving at High Speed Over Long Distances
Strix Systems today announced that state-run Korean Highway Corp. (KHC) selected Strix Access/One® Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) as the winner for the intelligent highway infrastructure test bed, the multi-phase, multi-year nationwide highway project between Korea’s two largest cities of Seoul and Pusan.
The purpose of the projects is to determine a cost effective method, in contrast to legacy cellular services, for Korea’s intelligent, interactive, digital highway infrastructure to deliver multimedia applications to a wide range of end-user, vehicular and other Wi-Fi enabled devices. The system will enable the delivery of video surveillance and voice streamed to and from public safety and commuter vehicles and provide the architecture for a simplified communications infrastructure for traffic control and related systems.
The test bed is located on the Kyungbu highway at a 31 kilometer stretch between Pangyo and Osan. Key criteria for the tests included the ability to achieve continuous fluid 8 Mbps end-to-end connections for streaming video, voice over IP and multimedia applications at speeds reaching 100 km/hour.
TTA, Korean public standard organization, hosted the benchmark tests performed by WLAN highway project of Korean Highway Corp. All major wireless/Wi-Fi mesh network equipment manufacturers have been represented. Broadwave Inc., a Strix Systems distributor in Korea, working closely with its partners POSDATA and Hyundai HDS, submitted Strix Systems Access/One OWS for the evaluation.
Strix OWS wireless mesh nodes were installed every 1 km with an average 3 or 4 hops from wired backhaul and mobile mesh nodes were installed in vehicles. The test results proved Strix Access/One wireless mesh network equipment yielded the highest performance over any competitor with the highest throughput, lowest latency and continuous robust performance successfully exceeding the base-line results which were not achieved by any other manufacturer. In fact, Strix Access/One OWS achieved more than double the backhaul throughput of any vendor at 18Mbps over 4 hops while the moving vehicle tests also proved Strix Systems ability to maintain an average high-density megapixel video streaming of 8~10 Mbps at not only the defined maximum test threshold of 100km/h, but exceeding 180km/h.
