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Applications Verticals

Logistics

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.

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.

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.