A Brave New Wireless World
The world of wireless mesh networks is undergoing a technological renaissance. As the high costs of burying fiber and deploying traditional wired networks in municipal and industrial enterprise deployments continue to skyrocket, it has become critical to consider wireless solutions, particularly in hard-to-access outdoor applications.
The wireless challenges of the past are being overcome by the technological breakthroughs of today. Case in point, Azalea's patented wireless mesh routing solution is delivering on the promise and potential of broadband wireless with superior performance and the lowest cost of ownership in the industry. How? Azalea is setting these new standards with “intelligent” wireless routing technology that delivers high-quality voice, video, and data communications while offering the ability to expand, grow or modify a network as needs change. That means end users, from public safety officials operating a video monitoring center to ISP's wishing to extend or add services to more customers, can now do so with minimal cost and maximum throughput.
Delivering Wireless Video with Integrity
The technological breakthroughs by Azalea are particularly evident in wireless video applications. Our unique AVT™ solution maintains spectrum integrity to transmit video packets with minimal loss, leading to less jitter and greater throughput, even over multiple hops. In fact, we've successfully tested our video transmission solutions at speeds over 60 mph for mobile purposes and over 10 miles for fixed video applications. If you haven't seen our video demonstration, visit http://www.azaleanet.com/Applications/Video-Surveillance/. It's truly wireless video like you've never seen before.
Azalea's solution provides tremendous opportunity for applications in municipal and industrial deployments including public safety, oil and gas operations, shipping ports, distribution centers, business and education campuses, and more.
We invite you to contact us and discover the difference between typical wireless offerings, which have come up short in the past, and new advanced solutions capable of handling higher throughput at a lower cost of ownership. We look forward to keeping you updated on where the world of broadband wireless is headed in future editions of Fresh Air.
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Azalea Helps Lakewood Center Mall Keep an Eye on Things
Recently, Azalea completed deployment of a wireless mesh network at Lakewood Center Mall in southern California. Management needed to provide video surveillance coverage for a handful of restaurants and stores and link the video to its centrally-located surveillance center. Normally not a problem, but these stores and restaurants happened to be located across a busy street from the mall. Trenching was not an option due to both municipal regulations and the enormous costs of digging up streets, sidewalks, and running wires. Not to mention the inconvenience and traffic problems that would certainly be part of any digging operation. They sought a cost-effective, reliable solution that would not disrupt business for their tenants.
The Solution
Azalea's experts developed a wireless mesh network design that would provide video coverage for these stores and restaurants utilizing 13 video cameras linked by 10 Azalea routers. The system covers approximately five city blocks, leveraging Azalea's Active Video Transport™ (AVT) technology that provides clear, jitter-free video with minimal frame loss. The Azalea solution routes video traffic from each camera to the video surveillance center in the mall in the most efficient manner, ensuring that video quality and reliability are never compromised.
The Azalea wireless mesh network covers a number of mall tenants across a busy street with the video surveillance center at the Lakewood Mall.
Azalea's wireless mesh network at Lakewood Center Mall provides reliable, consistent throughput over multiple hops.
Azalea's topology accommodated an abundance of trees and building structures that prevented clear line of sight but did not diminish the quality of the video signal.
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Azalea Aids First Responders with its Emergency Response Wireless Network Solution (ERWN)
First responders are a unique group of people. They, including military forces, fire fighters, police and special crime task forces are always meeting potentially dangerous scenarios head-on while everyone else is usually running away from these situations. Public safety issues such as fires, earthquakes, active crime scenes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, snow storms or avalanches require these first responders to rapidly deal with critical situations while being able to gather information from multiple first responder agencies operating from multiple locations. Needless to say, this presents a number of immediate communications challenges.
Azalea Networks provides a high performance, high-bandwidth, low-latency mobile wireless network that is an ideal solution to cities and government agencies looking for instant wireless communications in the aftermath of these public safety issues. The Azalea solution creates a robust, mobile wireless broadband network that provides high-quality real-time voice, video and fast data transmissions.
Azalea Network routers can be used to set up and maintain communication channels throughout the emergency situation and enable the first responders to successfully deal with the emergency effort. Wireless networks deployed across the affected area can help displaced people and emergency workers stay connected to each other and the rest of the world.
The Azalea Network MSR Family enables multiple solutions that increase the safety for the first responders and, after a disaster, provide a rapid return to normalcy for the community (read about how Azalea has helped the thousands of victims of the Sichuan earthquake in China). Solutions enabled by the MSR Product Family are deployed along with third-party products that can include medical monitoring equipment, IP Video Cameras, an IP satellite communication system, and a push-to-talk IP voice communication system.
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Medical Networking: Some emergency situations require immediate medical attention and usually these situations suffer due to lack of proper medical facilities. The wireless network supports communication with doctors, healthcare professionals, and remote specialists for consultation, or ordering of medical supplies.
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Law Enforcement for Public Safety: In active crime scenes, it is challenging to enforce law and ensure public safety. VoIP and video surveillance are significant applications of wireless networks that can help with real-time monitoring and management of key areas. This ensures the safety of the public as well as the law enforcement officers responding to an incident.
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Internet Access: During and after a natural disaster, outdoor wireless networks provide uninterrupted high-speed internet access, enabling displaced people to communicate with other community members via voice, video or email.
For fast, mobile, wireless communications needed during or after a disaster, Azalea’s Emergency Response Wireless Network solution can help increase public safety and save lives. Learn more at www.azaleanet.com/erwn.
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Azalea Networks Showcases its Wireless Mesh Technology at ASIS 2008 and ISC East conferences
ASIS 2008 – Azalea was the buzz at ASIS 2008 held in Atlanta, Georgia in September. The event featured a demo network setup in Azalea's booth and provided a first-hand glimpse at the superior performance of Azalea's AVT™ video solution, even over multiple hops. Attendees saw live video from a moving Segway scooter that was ridden throughout the show floor. Azlaea's Hoptimizer™ video solution proved a huge hit with attendees, who saw first-hand the advantages of Azalea's wireless mesh solution with superior performance, reliability and scalability.
Above: Attendees swarmed the Azalea booth to watch the video demonstration.
Right: The Hoptimizer roaming video Segway.
ISC East – At the ISC East conference in New York City in October, Azalea again showcased its wireless network, this time focusing on attendees shooting basketballs from distant booth across the conference hall. Azalea CTO Felix Zhao spoke to the crowd about the future of video surveillance over wireless mesh, and Frederick Harris held seminars about Azalea for VAR's and integrators.
Azalea's booth featured a wireless network showing video from a distant partner booth across the show floor
Azalea CTO Felix Zhao addressed the crowd on the topic of the future of video surveillance over wireless mesh
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Azalea Unleashes Mesh360 Channel Partner Program
If you represent a VAR or integrator in the wireless networking channel, we want to hear from you. We are seeking partners to represent a revolution in wireless networking technology that is a significant step above the mesh wireless solutions of the past. Now, there is a new technology that focuses on “intelligent” routing of traffic over a wireless network that permits you to offer your clients the benefits of extending and enhancing networks, wired or wireless, existing or new, with superior:
- Performance
- Scalable capacity
- Seamless mobility
- High-quality video
- Manageability
… that puts your wireless solutions ahead of what anyone else can offer in the wireless networking industry.
Download a Mesh360 brochure (1.7 MB)
Apply to become a Mesh360 Channel member here
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