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Campus Settings

With the widespread use of laptops, iPhones and PDAs, the need for wireless broadband access anytime, anywhere has dramatically increased. This is especially true in campus settings.

Traditional wireless networks, based on conventional technologies, have limited value on campuses. These include functional restrictions, an inability to upgrade resources, higher expenses associated with maintenance and, most importantly, a lack of secure access. And, traditional GSM and CDMA networks can only offer wireless Internet service at a rather low speed, which fails to meet the degree of service most people expect from broadband service.

Today's wireless campus must:
  • Function as a high-speed, reliable wireless education broadband
  • Remain stable under a variety of challenging situations
  • Simultaneously support multiple applications and large numbers of users
  • Provide seamless multi-node roaming of multiple applications by multiple users
  • Ensure excellent network quality through QoS
  • Provide secure access that users can count on
  • Enable low cost network construction, operation, management and inter-connectivity between campus areas
  • Allow for network expansion as needed
  • Feature building-friendly, non-destructive deployment
Azalea Networks enables wireless mesh campus networking with scalable, easy-to-use, efficient routing technology. No complex networking layout, no complicated wiring and no need for large up-front infrastructure costs. With Azalea Wireless Mesh technologies, wireless campus networks can serve as a multi-function information platform, enabling the campus to more efficiently utilize resources, improve management and enhance the user's experience.

Wireless education broadband
Azalea provides high-speed broadband for the entire campus, supports multiple applications by many users and seamlessly enables roaming among routers. These features significantly optimize coverage and efficiency of resources, improve education methods and help avoid the repetitive construction needed to expand service. Through this network, management, teachers and students can be authorized to download, upload and search through information of interest. This means students can participate in specialty lessons anytime, anywhere, and teachers can assign homework and implement open exams remotely.

Mobile campus administration
Efficient, informed and enabled administration is critical to a successful campus. By adopting Azalea wireless mesh technology, administrators can conduct campus administration duties with precision. Furthermore, Azalea can access sensors, providing multi-aspect surveillance, and even automatic self-management.

Campus safety
From public security to fire control – safety is critical on all campuses. Traditional technologies suffer from high networking costs, limited network flexibility and poor self-healing capabilities. In turn, these result in inefficient safety management, and administration blind spots.

Azalea provides a full-coverage, easy-to-manage, flexible, multi-functional solution. This technology can simultaneously provide safety surveillance based on video, fire control based on wireless sensor mesh networks and public health surveillance based on the interaction of health inspection equipment.

Campus communication – instant, convenient and economic
Azalea wireless mesh technologies deliver internal VoIP communications capable of telecom-grade seamless roaming and multiple-layer QoS with highly-sensitive and adaptive wireless routing.

24-hour online mobile library
With excellent stability, Azalea wireless mesh provides 24-hour library access, without complex regulations or high costs. The library can serve teachers and students anytime, anywhere, even when they are on the move.

Case Study: Capital Normal University (1.5 MB)
The Azalea Advantage
Azalea Networks' wireless mesh technology solves the problems associated with wired and alternative wireless networks.

Support existing standard Wi-Fi terminals to protect investments
With Azalea mesh networks, existing investments in Wi-Fi technologies such as terminals, routers, and handsets can continue to be used without any system modifications.

Offer secure access
Azalea wireless mesh routers support any existing standard VPN tunnel, thus enhancing flexibility and security for different corporate internal network visits.

Experience technical superiority & focus
Azalea‘s proprietary technologies deliver high-speed broadband and video access over long distances. Wireless mesh is more affordble and easier to deploy, making it a compelling mode of transmission. In addition, Azalea can deploy routers in remote settings with no power by adding solar panels to router towers.

Enhance the distribution/customer relationship
Azalea operates through and supports distributors, resellers and system integrators. This allows customers to maintain existing, trusted relationships.

Take advantage of a cost-effective structure
Azalea engineering and production teams are a blend of U.S. and China-based expertise, combining the best technology at the greatest value to the customer.

Eliminate the need to deploy countless wire lines
Historically, networking an environment meant deploying a large number of wires. With Azalea wireless mesh solutions, often only one wireless mesh router is physically connected to the wired network, saving both time and money. With Azalea's routable genuine mesh technologies, network topology is completely flexible, allowing users a choice in wired gateway placement for maximum cost effectiveness.

Expand or optimize coverage — anytime, anywhere
With Azalea, there is no need to implement an entire network in just one step. Azalea technology enables the coverage of key areas first and can be easily expanded to other areas as appropriate. Azalea is able to raise the ratio of network usage, reduce the difficulty of network deployment, and lower the initial investment.

Ensure maximum network reliability with genuine mesh technology
Azalea wireless mesh is self-healing through Azalea patent-pending AWR™ routing mechanisms. This makes the mesh network fully routable and flexible. If any radio link fails, another route will automatically be created. With Azalea, no one single point of failure will affect the network performance, unlike most commonly used tree topologies from other vendors.

Maintain continuous network service
Azalea’s patent-pending Motrix™ roaming algorithm supports high-speed roaming in a Layer-3 implementation. This allows individuals to use Wi-Fi terminals for high-speed Internet access while on the move. An automatic roaming algorithm ensures that there is no disruption to voice, video, or data transmission.
 
Supports enterprise-class security
All Azalea wireless mesh equipment supports existing 802.11i standards such as Open, WEP, WPA-TKIP, and WPA-AES. Adhering to enterprise-class standards ensures that data transmitted over the airwaves remains secure.
 

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