Applications for Wireless Video, Data, and Audio Transmission
From mining operations and construction sites to college campuses and business parks, Azalea's True Layer-3 Wireless Mesh Networking is uniquely positioned to enable seamless video surveillance and wireless broadband access. Through state-of-the-art wireless mesh technology Azalea can deliver a powerful, scalable network that can serve almost any business.
Application Specialties
Video Surveillance
The Azalea broadband wireless network infrastructure provides wireless video surveillance like you’ve never seen before. The Active Video Transmission™ system delivers the best available video quality for ordinary 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. Learn More »
Azalea Advantages:
• Dynamic, distributed routing purpose-built for multi-radio wireless networks delivers scalable capacity with sustained performance
• Active Video Transmission technology delivers industry-leading "high definition" video quality
• Seamless roaming enables both cameras and monitoring/recording equipment to be mobile
• The use of directional links improves long-distance coverage in large geographies
• Support for DiffServ, 802.11e and VLANs provides full control over quality of service for converged wireless networks that carry voice, video and data traffic
Wireless Broadband
As the global economy continues to expand, so does the demand for information. This information needs to be abundant, diversified, instant, scattered and mobile, all at the same time. These mounting demands have proven difficult for existing network capacity, coverage and range. And, this reduces an organization’s ability to evolve with changing business and workforce needs. Wireless mesh networks are best suited to meet these challenges because they are resilient, scalable, mobile, and most of all cost-effective. Learn More »
With superior scalability, high transmission speed, convenient deployment and minimal maintenance, Azalea Networks' state-of-the-art technology makes wireless broadband a reality. Azalea wireless mesh routers facilitate a seamless network with high-speed, high-quality data, voice and video communication, even when users are on the move.
Telecom Applications
Azalea wireless mesh technologies give telecom operators a more cost-effective and application-competitive network — one which integrates other networks and helps to easily expand the business. With self-management and self-healing capability, Azalea wireless mesh reduces the cost of deployment, management, maintenance and resource requirements.
Even with strict wireless network requirements, Azalea’s wireless mesh technology makes deployment easier than ever. The Azalea design enables companies to expand their network coverage to a large area in a very short time. This eliminates complicated network layout as well as lengthy testing periods.
As telecom evolves, wireless mesh has the ability to change with it. Operators can make use of the rich bandwidth supplied by wireless mesh to implement high performance, low-cost voice services. In the future, Azalea will introduce new services such as: wireless live TV, wireless video ordering, wireless network games and wireless video phone calls.
Broadband Applications
With proprietary, multi-level QoS and telecom-grade roaming technology, Azalea wireless mesh delivers superior stability and service quality for mobile VoIP. Even on a very large scale, Azalea provides seamless roaming, providing access to data, video and voice.
Azalea wireless mesh technology provides higher bandwidth for companies with ever-increasing service demands. Operators can immediately gain access to bandwidth much higher than 10Mbps, and in turn, convert rich broadband resources into a real customer benefit. At the same time, multi-level QoS and telecom-grade roaming mechanisms, combined with advanced routing technology, offer telecom operators reliable, high-speed transmissions at a lower cost than competing network solutions.
Azalea broadband applications also offer e-map and localization services. With Azalea, users do not need to purchase expensive localization equipment, pay extra amounts for software systems, bear expensive annual fees, or worry about the influence of weather on service performance.
Features and Benefits
- Adopting 802.11 standard, Azalea wireless mesh can reach a bandwidth as broad as 54Mbps. This is much higher than conventional PSTN and 3G data
- Azalea’s unique Layer-3 wireless mesh technology can expand network capacity to theoretically infinite nodes
- The switching speed cross subnet is 50 ms which allows users to realize “continuous connection” with end-user applications
- Azalea wireless mesh networks are dynamic and can perform self-configuration and healing
- Instant networking can be implemented anytime, anywhere as needed and eliminates the need for lengthy and complicated design, deployment, installation or testing
- Intelligent expansion capability makes it simple to increase network coverage and capacity
- Self-management and self-healing capability saves significant management cost
- Unique RFID management with anti-interference capabilities provide flexibility and stability to any optimized environment
- Multi-hop transmission further improves operational flexibility, enables network protection and facilitates network self-healing
- Simultaneously supports multi-path concurrent transmission of high-quality video, voice and data for a variety of operations
- Supplies efficient roaming capability to maintain continuous network service
- Ensures network safety and security
- Supports VPN tunnel with flexible services and convenient management features
- Supplies a powerful network management platform to enable the users to establish and manage their own unique network policies
Public Safety
Public safety applications benefit from Azalea's industry-first network intelligent routing technology that combines mission critical dependability with advanced capabilities, such as high-speed mobility and high-quality video surveillance. With broadband multimedia communications, first responders gain better situational awareness while en route to the incident scene, and command and control personnel benefit from better intra-agency planning and inter-agency coordination. Azalea's Emergency Response Wireless Network (ERWN) can also be used to restore communications for both citizens and government agencies after a disaster. Learn More »
Azalea's broadband wireless network infrastructure with network intelligent routing provides a complete voice, video and data communications solution for public safety applications. Azalea's solution also operates in 4.9GHz spectrum for licensed public safety applications.
Azalea Advantages
- Dynamic, distributed routing purpose-built for multi-radio wireless networks delivers dependable and scalable capacity with sustained performance
- Routing over long-distance directional links substantially increases coverage in large geographies
- Seamless roaming facilitates high-speed mobility with "session persistence" for any IP-based application, including voice and video surveillance
- Active Video Transport technology delivers industry-leading "high definition" quality for video surveillance using ordinary cameras and monitors
- Use of licensed spectrum combined with rigorous authentication, strong encryption and other security provisions ensures network integrity
Municipal Buildouts
With the advantages of Adaptive Wireless Routing, can extend network intelligence beyond what is currently possible without sacrificing quality or control, especially in areas that have limited or cost-prohibitive wired backhaul.
Oil & Gas
Offshore rigs. Remote pipelines. Massive refineries. From upstream to downstream, no industry presents as much of a challenge to communications as does the oil and gas industry.
Wired solutions are impractical. And, wireless alternatives are nearly impossible to implement with acceptable levels of scalability, reliability or cost-effectiveness. Only wireless mesh technology can deliver in this environment. Learn More »
For oil and gas operations, security and safety are of the utmost importance. With video surveillance powered by Azalea routers, it is now possible to monitor even the most remote areas, 24/7. With high-speed broadband capabilities, users can stream video in real time or record it for review at a later date. This technology can be employed to prevent or contain potentially catastrophic events, such as fires and oil spills.
For an oil and gas operation to run successfully, there must be open communication. With Azalea wireless networks, supervisors can communicate with workers in the field with ease. They can contact each other via voice telecomm with no interference, interruptions or security concerns. Or, they can share data anywhere in the network with the help of a laptop or PDA.
The implications for efficiency are as real as they are cost-effective. Deployment is simple, and expansion is even easier. Just attach the router and power it up. The technology is designed to automatically detect, configure and optimize. And, this same feature is useful if there is ever a desire to relocate the network. Simply move the routers to their new location and power up.
The Logistics Industry
Most large-scale logistic centers are in seaports, airports, railways and road traffic centers. Conventional wired technologies cannot satisfy the hefty requirements for data tracking, Internet access, or office automation. And, conventional wireless technology is not practical due to low bandwidth and high-cost disadvantages. Azalea wireless mesh is able to provide seamless broadband coverage across a large area. And, by simply adding additional routers, the coverage area can be easily expanded as needed. Learn More »
Azalea wireless mesh technology enables real-time information exchange, dynamic information analysis, and video monitoring optimized for logistics settings. Adopting Azalea wireless mesh technology will not only yield seamless coverage, but also enable high broadband transmission to challenging environments.
The technology features:
- High-speed mobile, without expensive wireless internet access fees
- Reliable, high-quality video transmission and surveillance
- Wireless voice service with superior coverage
Wireless mesh infrastructure for logistic operations
Azalea can help build a cost-effective, highly-efficient supply chain solution. With wireless mesh technology, logistic enterprises or departments can immediately eliminate the complicated network layouts, heavy workload and large cost associated with installation, deployment and maintenance. The Azalea solution is simple — choose a location, install the routers, power on and upload your logistics management system. This easy-to-implement approach enables logistics operations to experience seamless coverage in seaports, airports, open fields, open-air warehouses and other locations where wired Internet access is not feasible.
Share logistics data anytime, anywhere
Data sharing is crucial for logistic efficiency, and can represent a core competitive advantage. With Azalea wireless mesh technology, logistics enterprises and departments can build a cost-effective wireless information platform covering the whole operation process. By using laptops, PDAs and other terminals, managing and working staff can retrieve information anytime, anywhere, thus maintaining a seamless connection between departments and individuals. Vital information, such as cargo throughput, can be quickly streamed and shared. And, with the right data, organizations can effectively perform critical tasks and analyses. Even in emergency situations, information can be transmitted to all relevant departments throughout the network.
Perfecting process controls
Process surveillance can help logistic enterprises or departments observe real-time operations, ensuring that any in-field situations are resolved in a timely matter. This way, authorized personnel can freely stream video, and leverage one or several monitoring devices to perform multi-directional surveillance when needed. Images can also be shared with relevant departments in real-time or stored for later review. This technology can also utilize inductive surveillance, based on sensors, to transmit a variety of parameters, including temperature, moisture, dust and weight. What's more, departments can conveniently install multiple surveillance devices, and modulate them as needed, without any additional investment or construction.
Convenience and simplicity for internal communications
With Azalea wireless mesh technology, employees can perform group telecom or individual-to-individual directional telecom anytime, anywhere. With wireless mesh, there is no need to worry about telephone bills, malfunctions, privacy, or network overload. Azalea wireless mesh provides a multi-level QoS guarantee and a telecom-grade roaming mechanism. With seamless, stable, high-speed broadband, internal communication is now more worry-free than ever.
Transportation Agencies
Transportation agencies must cover large geographies and support demanding real-time applications, which makes Azalea's intelligent high-speed roaming, "high definition" video and long-range throughput, the perfect solution.
Construction Sites
Construction projects present unusual networking challenges. With the constant pressure to keep the project on time and under budget, construction sites count on reliable, fast, cost-effective communication.
By definition, construction sites are constantly changing. As phases are completed and new contractors start their work, communication needs can change dramatically. This is why wired networks have historically been impractical in these environments. Cables are simply too expensive, not scalable and highly vulnerable to damage. In contrast, Azalea mesh routers provide superior flexibility as the project evolves. Routers can be used indoors and outdoors, are easily moved and configured, and even offer solar panels if electricity is not yet available in a specific area. Learn More »
With the constant threat of theft, vandalism and unproductive activities, on-site video surveillance becomes a vital part of maintaining operations. Wireless mesh networks from Azalea provide the scalability and robustness needed for 24/7 monitoring. Broadband wireless technology is able to deliver high-quality video and audio in real-time, or store it for review at a later date.
Successful construction projects take a team effort. That’s why it’s so important to keep the lines of communication open. Wireless broadband provides architects, subcontractors, and project managers with a secure environment where they can keep in-touch and share important information. Whether it’s CAD drawings of an electrical plan, a work order for supplies, or a simple phone call to report progress, broadband voice and data are essential to today’s construction operations.
What’s more, once a job is complete, the routers can be packed up and moved to the next site.
Campuses
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. Learn More »
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.
Business Parks
Business parks have cropped up everywhere as the demand for high-speed information has increased. Azalea wireless mesh technology can provide a flexible, swift, convenient and economical solution. Azalea wireless mesh delivers seamless coverage to streamline operations and help organizations get the full benefit of information technology.
With Azalea wireless mesh technology, the complicated network layouts, heavy workload and large cost associated with installation, deployment and maintenance can be eliminated immediately. The Azalea solution is simple — choose a location, install the routers, power on and upload the logistics management system. And, if it’s necessary to expand coverage, new routers will be automatically merged into the existing network. Conversely, if the equipment is no longer needed in a specific area, it can be moved to a new location just as easily. Learn More »
A more powerful office network
With Azalea wireless mesh, corporations can make wireless a reality. That means high-speed Internet access, telecom service and video surveillance in the office environment.
With wireless mesh, employees can access the network even if they are not at their desk. With a laptop or PDA they can easily retrieve information and freely share in-field data with the rest of the company and the outside world.
Enterprise employees also gain access to mobile voice communication, without any phone bills. In addition, they won’t have to worry about problems such as interference or disruption and, since telecom is effectively limited to a certain area, security is no longer an issue. Employees will also be able to easily access video monitoring, including multi-directional surveillance in real time, anywhere within the network.
Accurate process automation and surveillance
Process automation and surveillance are crucial in business settings. It influences cost and quality of products and services, and can impact a corporation’s profits. Higher automation and more precise process surveillance can help corporations gain better production efficiency and quality control.
With Azalea, corporations can deploy a wireless mesh network across their entire organization. Combined with routers and other devices, the network can help improve process automation and realize more precise process surveillance, all in a very cost-effective package.
Temporary networking performed anytime, anywhere
For large-scale outdoor activities or exhibitions, reliable broadband network service is a must. Indoor and outdoor routers from Azalea can provide wireless Internet access, wireless videoconference and wireless VoIP vocal service simultaneously.
RFID identification system
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) uses wireless signals to identify a specific object without any mechanical or optical contact between the identification system and the object. Wireless frequency signals provide a flexible and effective way to transmit this valuable information.
Large-Scale Manufacturing
From automotive assembly to food processing, large-scale operations require open lines of communication to be successful. The wired systems of the past are simply too cumbersome and too expensive to be practical in today’s manufacturing environment. With the constant push for leaner, more efficient methods, organizations should look to wireless mesh for their communication needs. In these environments, wireless mesh can provide a powerful, scalable and cost-effective way to transmit information fast. Learn More »
With Azalea's wireless mesh technology, manufacturing operations can immediately eliminate the complicated network layouts, heavy workload and large costs associated with installation, deployment and maintenance. And, while many operations run 24/7 to maximize up-time, wireless mesh provides easy deployment that will not interrupt day-to-day operations.
The Azalea solution is simple – choose a location, install the routers, power on and upload the logistics management system. This easy-to-implement approach enables logistics operations to experience seamless coverage in locations where wired Internet access is not practical or available.
- With wireless communications, inventory information, including barcode scans and RFID, can be quickly sent from hand-held devices to anyone in the network
- High-quality video and audio can be streamed over wireless mesh broadband, enabling superior surveillance over a wide area. Surveillance can be viewed in real time, or easily stored for later review
- Telecomm voice through wireless mesh broadband delivers secure, reliable communications with no monthly phone bills
Mining & Quarry Applications
Mines and quarries need high-tech excavators, cutting-edge bulldozers and state-of-the-art communications. Unlike other applications, however, mining operations measure size in square miles, not feet. This presents a huge challenge for wired solutions. The cost to deploy wires across such a large area would obviously outweigh the benefit. Plus, mines and quarries are always on the move. A communication solution needs to be flexible, scalable and durable enough to keep up. Learn More »
With wireless mesh technology from Azalea, wireless broadband is a reality, even in the most remote locations. From telecomm voice communications with no service interruptions to wireless broadband Internet access and real-time video surveillance capabilities, operations become more efficient in no time.
The Azalea solution is simple to install — choose a location, attach the routers, power on and upload the logistics management system. This easy-to-implement approach enables logistics operations to experience seamless coverage in locations where communication was once thought impossible.
Routers can be used indoors and outdoors, are easily moved and configured and even offer solar panels if electricity is not yet available in a specific area. Furthermore, once an area is excavated, routers can be packed up and moved to another site, with no complicated installation required.
