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Wireless Infrastructure Mesh for

Transportation

Agenda

� Why wireless?

� Wireless options

� Wireless mesh for security and surveillance

� Case studies

� Transit security; Wireless off-load; Port security; Airport

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� Transit security; Wireless off-load; Port security; Airport

Security; Mobile video

� Critical success factors

� Firetide product portfolio

� Q & A

Why Wireless?

� Cost savings

� Deploy virtually anywhere

� Mobility and flexibility

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� Mobility and flexibility

� Extend or back-up wired

infrastructure

Wireless Options

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Network Topologies

� Point to Point

� Point to Multi-Point

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� Multi-Point to Multi-

Point (Mesh)

Self-Forming, Self-Healing

Permanent ObstructionTemporary Obstruction

� Wireless mesh is

self-healing

� Redundant links

eliminate single

points of failure

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points of failure

� Multiple paths

overcome line-of-

sight

Understanding Firetide

Wireless Infrastructure Mesh

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Wireless Infrastructure Mesh

Imagine a Traditional Wired Switch

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(Wired Ethernet infrastructure)

Now, Give Each Port Wireless Capability

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(Wired Ethernet infrastructure)

Separate the Ports…

(Wired Ethernet infrastructure)

Bingo, a Virtual Ethernet Switch!

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�District 4

�District 5

Linear Mesh

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�District1

�District 2

�District 3

�District 4

�n Miles

Video Quality Equivalent To Fiber

• Chicago OEMC

• Boston MBTA

• Steveston Harbor, BC

• O’Hare Airport

• Midway Airport

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� Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept

• Midway Airport

• Yuma, NV Airport

• Temple, TX Airport

• Dallas PD

• Phoenix PD

Case Studies

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Transit Security

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Wireless ‘Look-in’: MBTA, Boston

• 300+ busses, 8 cameras each

• Mobile-to-mobile surveillance

• Passenger and operator safety; liability protection

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Outdoor Surveillance: Columbus, OH

� Parking lots

� Transit stations

� Tunnels

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� Roadways

Wireless Off-load

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Veolia, Malmo, Sweden

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Port Security

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Steveston Harbor, BC, Canada

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� Overt surveillance

� Fixed and PTZ, megapixel cameras

Airport Security

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Airport Security

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Mobile Video

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�Internet

Seoul Subway

� World’s first subway install with high-bandwidth, real-time

video to & from train cars moving at 50 mph

� High throughput: 20 Mbps; no dropped packets

� Linear mesh topology

� Extremely harsh conditions

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Burgundy Estate, Cape Town, S. Africa

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Planning a Wireless System

Applications

RequirementsFuture growth

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Site survey

Network design

RF engineering

Firetide Product

Portfolio

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Portfolio

Infrastructure Mesh & Access

HotPort 6000 Series

� Single or dual radio backhaul

� 2.4, 4.9, 5 GHz selectable

� 900 MHz (HotPort 6000-900)

HotPoint 4000 Series

� Indoor & outdoor

� 2.4 GHz

� ‘Fat’ & ‘lightweight’

HotView Pro

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900)

Infrastructure Mesh /

“Distributed Ethernet

Switch”Access Points & CPE

Mesh & AP Management /

One Interface

Firetide Mobility Controller

Firetide WLAN Controller

CPE 2000 Series

� Indoor & outdoor

� 2.4 GHz

Integrated Video Solution

� Simplifies project integration and installation

� Camera, storage/encoder, mesh and/or fiber transceiver

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Firetide IVS-100

Available

exclusively

though Anixter

MIMO-based Mesh (802.11n)

� Throughput, reliability and security of fiber

� Fiber-equivalent performance at 400 Mbps; latency .9 ms

� Greater reliability: interference mitigation intelligence

� Easier deployment: integrated spectrum analysis

� Flexible configuration

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� Dual configurable radios:

2.4. 4.9, and 5 GHz

� Indoor and outdoor

� Available in Q3 2009

Firetide HotPort 7000

Firetide Snapshot

� Leading provider of infrastructure mesh networks

enabling concurrent transmission of real-time video,

voice and data over wireless Ethernet

� Sold exclusively through solution providers

Headquarters in Northern California

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� Headquarters in Northern California

� Over 2,000 installations in 30 countries

Wireless Saves Time, Money

Buffalo, NYRockford, IL Denver / DNC ‘08

LA County Sheriff’s Dept.

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Buffalo, NY

Dallas, TX

Downtown Chicago

Rockford, IL

NASA Dryden

Denver / DNC ‘08

Yuma Intl Airport

Thank You!

www.firetide.com

See case studies at:

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See case studies at:

www.firetide.com/casestudies