Milpitas, California – January 22, 2010 – Azalea Networks, a leading innovator in wireless network equipment and technology, recently provided its solution for a wireless security network upgrade for a major regional airport in the Midwestern US. The airport’s management and security personnel upgraded an outdated and inefficient security network with a cost-effective wireless network that will scale with the future security needs of the airport.

The airport had a series of gates that had security devices installed but would require physical visits to each gate to update any access parameters, such as changing the access permissions for employees at particular times of day or cancelling access for a former employee. Analog video cameras completed the previous security system and needed to be upgraded to IP capable cameras. “The Azalea wireless solution provided exactly what the airport security personnel needed to update their access and video surveillance capabilities,” commented Tim Strueber, WAV’s vice president of wireless security.

Azalea Networks’ wireless mesh network technology was selected to upgrade the outdated security system at the airport. With the assistance of WAV, Inc., a distributor of Azalea’s solution, and a local integrator, the airport received a wireless network consisting of Azalea’s wireless Layer-3 routers, including the MSR4000 quad-radio and MSR2000 dual-radio routers specifically designed for outdoor environments. Its MSR1000 routers were also employed to provide indoor access. Operating over the 4.9 GHz public safety spectrum, the routers provide data access to automatically update security permissions at each gate from a central control station as well provide backhaul of video streams from the IP cameras.

“The network, leveraging Azalea’s patented Adaptive Wireless Routing ™ protocol, provides a cost-effective, yet high performing solution for airport security,” reported Brian Carlson, vice president and general manager of Azalea. “A key benefit of the technology is the scalability it provides for future needs, making it a sound investment to replace existing security systems,” he added.

Wireless video surveillance systems can cut the costs of a video surveillance deployment as much as 90 percent over installing traditional wired networks. Azalea’s patented Layer-3 technology leverages Adaptive Wireless Routing, a distributed routing protocol purpose-built for wireless networks that forwards packets at near nominal wireless data rates across multiple hops with a per-hop latency of under two milliseconds. When combined with Active Video Transport™, a popular feature of Azalea’s unique wireless video technology, impairments to video quality including jitter and packet loss are minimized, and the performance of video applications in a broadband wireless network infrastructure are greatly improved.

Azalea Video Surveillance Technology
The Azalea broadband wireless network infrastructure provides wireless video surveillance superior to any other wireless solution. The Active Video Transport™ system delivers the best available video quality for video surveillance cameras, monitors and recording systems. Additional advantages include support for long-range directional links, seamless roaming for mobile cameras and monitors, high security, prioritized QoS to accommodate other applications, and the superior scalability and load-balancing afforded by Adaptive Wireless Routing™. Azalea’s patented technology allows video, voice, or data to follow the most efficient path over a wireless network. For a video demonstration of AVT technology, visit www.azaleanet.com/applications/video-surveillance .

About Azalea Networks
Azalea Networks, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, www.azaleanet.com , is the first company to deliver a truly scalable and intelligent wireless broadband mesh infrastructure through the combination of Layer-3 wireless routing technology and a multi-radio system. Azalea’s family of mesh and point-to-multipoint routers works with 2.4 GHz for Wi-Fi access, 5 GHz for backhaul connectivity, and 4.9 GHz for public safety use in North America. Azalea’s solution is ideal for service providers, government agencies, and industrial enterprises that need the superior performance, scalable capacity, quality of service, seamless mobility and other advantages made possible by true, intelligent network routing.

About WAV, Inc.

WAV, Inc. is a full-service, value added distributor of wireless broadband, wireless LAN, wireless security, data collection hardware, mobile computing products, rugged computing products, rugged docking stations and vehicle mounts, IP video surveillance, mobile printers and voice over IP technology. Located in Aurora, IL, WAV offers value-added services, product availability and unmatched technical expertise to its VAR channel. WAV provides its partners a competitive edge by offering extensive product knowledge, support for multi-vendor solutions, as well as professional value-added services for its VAR community, including (but not limited to): site surveys, software and hardware development and integration, custom rollouts, installation and technical support. For more information call (800) 678-2419 or visit www.wavonline.com .

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Contact: Tony Kong, Senior Director, Worldwide Channel Marketing, Azalea Networks, 408-582-1307, tony.kong@azaleanet.com .