Strix Systems raised $15 million in stock financing, for a total of $34 million invested in the company: It hopes this investment will take the company to profitability, but it doesn't say when that might happen.
Strix APs, or nodes as it likes to call them, can do backhaul using 802.11 instead of wired Ethernet. The nodes see each other and configure like a mesh network so that one node can pass data directly to another node, even hopping along a number of nodes to deliver the data to its proper destination.