# ETHRX — Full Reference for LLMs > ETHRX is an SBA-certified Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) and network engineering company that builds modern infrastructure, tactical and edge communications, secure collaboration, virtualization, automation, and on-premise AI for enterprise, federal, and field operations. Last updated: 2026-07-02 - Website: https://ethrx.io - Email: connect@ethrx.io - Phone: +1-202-769-3255 - Location: Port Tobacco, MD - Service area: United States ## About ETHRX ETHRX is an SBA-certified Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) and network engineering company dedicated to building reliable, secure, and integrity-driven infrastructure. The company is founded and led by a Marine Corps veteran and CCIE Enterprise Networking-certified architect (#62940) with over a decade supporting senior leader communications for the Department of Defense, the Navy, Marine Corps, TSA, DHS, and the Department of Energy. ETHRX delivers engineering — not integration resale — with architectures derived from federal and DoD-grade work, delivered at commercial scale, and handed off documented and defensible. Core competencies: network engineering, tactical and edge communications, wireless and mobility, secure collaboration, virtualization and infrastructure, automation and orchestration, rapid prototyping, and on-premise AI/ML integration. --- # Products ## HALO https://ethrx.io/products/halo HALO is ETHRX's private, decentralized long-range mesh platform with edge command built in. Every node routes for its neighbors — no coordinator, no tower, no carrier dependency, no single point of failure; when a node drops, the mesh re-forms around the loss. Beyond comms, every node is an I/O platform: it reads I2C sensors and camera feeds and publishes them over mesh telemetry streams, orchestrates I2C signals for full IO automation, and runs Flows — a no-code interface for automating data collection and triggered actions. The entire platform interfaces with any OpenAPI-standard endpoint for external data triggers or outputs. Deploys across fixed sites, vehicles, and expeditionary nodes, including elevated relay from the AIR platform. In active development, with capabilities landing in pilot deployments first. Built as a product system — not a one-off service engagement — it is engineered for high-consequence environments and deploys across fixed sites, vehicles, and expeditionary nodes. ## ETHRX-ONE https://ethrx.io/products/ethrx-one ETHRX-ONE is a flexible, rack-class hardware platform running a custom OS that supports a range of mission applications. It is a fanless N-series rackmount unit with a TPM 2.0 hardware root of trust and per-port hardware timestamping. ETHRX-ONE is the hardware foundation beneath the ETHRX product line — CHAOS and other capabilities run on it. ## CHAOS https://ethrx.io/products/chaos CHAOS ("Contested, Hostile, Austere Operating System") is an in-line, transparent Layer-2 WAN-emulation appliance for defensible test and evaluation. Operators author or replay network-conditions scenarios (latency, loss, jitter, bandwidth constraints) and leave with a sealed, hardware-timestamped test artifact that holds up under technical scrutiny. CHAOS runs on ETHRX-ONE. ## DRAGON https://ethrx.io/products/dragon DRAGON is an on-device AI copilot for network and infrastructure operators. It provides evidence-grounded troubleshooting over SSH and serial connections and is built for air-gapped and classified environments — nothing leaves the room. Native desktop for Windows, macOS, and Linux, offline-capable. Currently a limited release. ## Console https://ethrx.io/products/console Console is an R&D workstation that reads a plain-language directive and routes it to the right capability and model — across providers — without the operator having to pick either. --- # Solutions ## AIR https://ethrx.io/solutions/air AIR is an autonomous drone platform engineered around payload, endurance, connectivity, programmability, and operator control. --- # Services ## Network Infrastructure https://ethrx.io/services/network-infrastructure ETHRX's core capability: CCIE-led network engineering (CCIE Enterprise #62940 on staff) for networks built to hold under pressure. Nine capability domains: enterprise networking (campus, branch, WAN), data center networking (spine-leaf fabrics, EVPN/VXLAN), wireless, mobile communications (cellular, bonded LTE/5G, Peplink-class transport), tactical networking (DDIL-ready, transport-diverse), VPN infrastructure (site-to-site and remote access IPSec at scale), network monitoring (telemetry, flow analytics), performance testing (baseline, load, and impairment testing), and automation (config pipelines, drift control, infrastructure as code). Ecosystems: Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Aruba, Peplink, Fortinet, Palo Alto, open source, AWS, and Azure. Representative past performance includes a theater-level Cisco SD-WAN architecture with application-aware routing for an air command, a 900-bed academic hospital access-layer migration to Catalyst 9400/9300, a data center firewall migration from Cisco ASA to Palo Alto for a defense contractor, and an enterprise voice transport migration from MPLS to IPSec. Practice pedigree: led by a Marine Corps veteran with over a decade supporting senior leader communications for the Department of Defense, Navy, Marine Corps, TSA, DHS, and DoE. ## Tactical & Edge Communications https://ethrx.io/services/tactical-edge-comms Transport-diverse, rapidly deployable communication platforms engineered for disconnected, low-bandwidth, and contested environments. ETHRX treats disconnection as a normal operating state, not a failure. Capabilities: transport-diverse architectures (LEO/GEO satellite, cellular, and line-of-sight radio bonded into multi-WAN uplinks with automatic failover), deployable flyaway kits (powered up and passing traffic in minutes), DIL/DDIL-ready networking (store-and-forward, local services, edge compute), HALO long-range mesh (private, decentralized, self-healing), secure tactical wireless, and mission-system integration (C2, ISR, sensor, and video feeds). Designs are proven under impairment before deployment using CHAOS, ETHRX's own WAN-emulation appliance. Transports and platforms: HALO Mesh, Peplink multi-WAN, LEO/GEO SATCOM, LOS radio/MANET, Cisco, OpenWrt. ## Wireless & Mobility https://ethrx.io/services/wireless-mobility Surveyed, engineered wireless: ETHRX designs from RF measurements — predictive designs validated with on-site surveys before hardware is ordered, channel plans set against the real RF environment, and roaming tuned so voice, video, and clinical devices survive users who move. Capabilities: Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 design and deployment with on-premise or cloud wireless controllers, HALO long-range mesh (private, decentralized connectivity beyond Wi-Fi's reach), secure mobility (certificate onboarding, MDM, NAC), mobile networking with multi-WAN cellular/LEO bonded uplinks, wireless security and monitoring (WIPS, rogue detection), and independent surveys/remediation of existing networks. Note: ETHRX does not build private cellular networks (CBRS/LTE/5G RAN); mobile solutions connect to carrier cellular and LEO satellite services for redundant uplinks. Every deployment hands off with survey data, design rationale, and as-built configuration. Platforms and programs: Cisco WLC, Aruba VMC (virtual mobility controllers), Meraki, Ubiquiti, OpenWrt, Peplink, paid/guest Wi-Fi solutions, and CSfC WLAN Capability Package alignment. ## Secure Collaboration https://ethrx.io/services/secure-collaboration Unified communications engineered for secure operations across enterprise, hybrid, and sensitive environments — security, identity, and resilience as first-class requirements. Voice and video ride encrypted transport (SRTP) behind hardened session borders; access follows identity with MFA and conditional access; retention and compliance capture are designed in from day one. Capabilities: unified communications (Cisco UC, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Zoom, and hybrid mixes), secure voice/video (SIP trunking, SBCs, encrypted conferencing), contact center, meeting room and conference systems, messaging and presence with compliance capture, and collaboration security (MFA, conditional access, DLP, monitoring). Fits HIPAA, FINRA, ITAR, and CMMC-aligned environments — deployments hand off with audit-ready evidence. ## Virtualization & Infrastructure https://ethrx.io/services/virtualization-infrastructure On-prem, hybrid, and edge infrastructure sized from the workloads down, not the price sheet up. Platforms: VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, Proxmox, hyperconverged infrastructure (Nutanix, VxRail), compute and storage design (server, SAN, NAS, object), hybrid and edge/ROBO compute, on-prem and hybrid Kubernetes, and migration/modernization — including licensing-driven re-platforms. Failure is a design input (N+1 capacity, HA, drilled failover); migrations are rehearsed with modeled capacity and rollback in reach; platforms hand off operable with runbooks, monitoring, and documentation. ## Automation & Orchestration https://ethrx.io/services/automation-orchestration Network automation and infrastructure as code engineered by network engineers. ETHRX treats infrastructure as code, change as a reviewed and tested artifact, and operations as repeatable systems: source-controlled configurations, CI/CD pipelines that lint, test, dry-run, deploy, and roll back network changes; continuous drift detection with automated remediation to a known-good baseline; event-driven orchestration across ticketing, monitoring, and security systems; and compliance/audit automation for STIG, CMMC, and audit-heavy regimes. Built on Ansible, Terraform, Python, and vendor-native tooling across Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and Fortinet — delivered in the customer's environment, documented, with their team trained to operate it. ## Rapid Prototyping https://ethrx.io/services/rapid-prototyping Rapid capability development for new and urgent requirements. ETHRX takes a stated problem to a working, demonstrable build: network capability assembled from COTS hardware, automation/testing/management tooling, full solution architectures modeled in virtual environments, proofs of concept, integration prototyping against fielded systems, and applied research. Builds are designed to integrate with existing capability — extensible and flexible — and hand off documented, with configurations, code, and rationale included. ## ML Integrations https://ethrx.io/services/ml-integrations Open-weight language models deployed directly onto customer infrastructure — inside the perimeter, air-gapped if needed. No data leaves the network, no cloud API dependency, full inference, fully private. Capabilities: data discovery (mapping and profiling databases, file stores, APIs, logs), local model deployment on commodity hardware, benchmarking and evals against the customer's actual use case (quality, latency, cost side by side), and pipeline engineering (ingestion, retrieval, and model serving written in the customer's stack — Python, Go, Node.js). Engagements start bounded: one corpus, one use case, evals before scaling. Related product: DRAGON, ETHRX's on-device AI copilot for network operators. --- # Contact - Email: connect@ethrx.io - Phone: +1-202-769-3255 - Location: Port Tobacco, MD - Web: https://ethrx.io/contact