"We chose to partner with ICOP for a number of important reasons including its established market presence within law enforcement, its vision for community-wide surveillance and security and its best of class surveillance products and solutions," stated Bruce Brown, Chairman and CEO of Strix Systems, Inc. "ICOP and Strix each share the same commitment for empowering communities with real-time, multimedia, mission-critical communications and situational awareness. Collaborating on our respective marketing efforts will compound our collective success."

Strix Systems is the worldwide industry leader in carrier-class wireless mesh networks noted for offering the highest performance and greatest flexibility for the lowest total cost of ownership. Strixs Access/One(R) wireless mesh products enable the quick deployment of network infrastructure to deliver reliable, resilient, self-configuring high-speed voice, video and data services for real-time multimedia, mission-critical communications and situational awareness for agencies and first responders. The Access/One products are ideal for a wide range of solutions including: security, surveillance, asset tracking applications, voice and video convergence, extended IT network infrastructure, emergency services, transportation systems and mobile connectivity. Its carrier grade performance enables deployments for city-wide metropolitan, country-wide infrastructure, public safety, state and federal government applications, transportation systems, harbors and ports, airports, corporate enterprise, hospitals, hotels and apartment complexes, universities and schools, hot-spots and hot-zones, as well as large scale service provider deployments to residential and business market.

In August 2007, Strix certified ICOP products - the ICOP Model 20/20-W(TM) and the ICOP Guardian(TM) stationary IP camera - as "Wireless Mesh Ready" and interoperable with Strix Access/One products. All products certified by Strix must meet key criteria to support Strixs native high throughput, low latency and failover characteristics and will work together with all other certified and interoperable equipment.

"The underpinning value of the ICOP Solution(TM) is enabling community leaders and first responders with the ability to access and benefit from real- time, situational awareness of any crisis or crime-in-progress. Partnering with the worlds leader in wireless mesh networking provides ICOP with yet another important arrow in our quiver, helping us to provide communities with a cost effective wireless alternative for rapidly deploying essential public safety networks capable of supporting our solutions," stated Dave Owen, Chairman and CEO of ICOP.

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