Seattle Police Department Monitors Mardi Gras Festivities With Wireless Video Surveillance...

Seattle Police Department Monitors Mardi Gras Festivities With Wireless Video
Surveillance Network From Azalea Networks

Public safety efforts benefit from fast-deploying wireless video solution
offering broadcast-quality video at low-cost-of-ownership

MILPITAS, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Azalea Networks, a leading
innovator in wireless network equipment and technology, today announced a
milestone for law enforcement in the City of Seattle, Washington. The Seattle
Police Department successfully deployed Azalea's wireless mesh network to
establish a flexible video surveillance operation during the annual Mardi Gras
celebration in their historic downtown neighborhood known as Pioneer Square.

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Facing the need to see and control potentially dangerous situations as they
developed during the event, the Seattle Police Department sought a solution
that would provide the advantages of additional views of the area quickly and
cost effectively. Azalea's wireless mesh solution provided the necessary level
of video throughput over multiple hops within the network, something the
Seattle PD had not been able to achieve with a previous network deployment.
Semaphore Corporation, a leading network integrator in the Pacific Northwest
and an Azalea Mesh360 partner, managed the installation of the wireless
network.

Azalea's wireless network connects a series of cameras that provide streaming
video over a 12-square block area. Deployed in just a matter of days, the
wireless network offers speeds of up to 30 Mbps for backhaul of video to
Seattle police headquarters where the video is recorded, then sends that
streaming video over the 4.9 GHz licensed public safety spectrum to a mobile
police command center, where each camera view is monitored and controlled.
"The video feeds into a central server and is shared with the command center
and our officers on the street," reported Seattle Police Detective Monty Moss.
"Finally the technology has arrived that lets us do the type of work we need
to do to provide the best possible protection for our community," he added.

Officers on patrol are also able to control the angle and zoom level of each
individual camera using handheld multi-media devices. These devices,
leveraging the 2.4 GHz spectrum, provide the officers with the ability to
modify the scene from each camera and gain a bird's eye view of their
surroundings, particularly useful in high density crowds.

The wireless network technology that provided the Seattle Police Department
with high-quality video surveillance was developed by Azalea Networks.
Azalea's Adaptive Wireless Routing(TM) (AWR) technology operates at the
Layer-3 routing level, ensuring the most efficient path for traffic over the
network, enhancing the network's reliability and scalability. "With AWR, the
network maintains reliability by routing traffic over the most efficient path
in the network, ensuring the best possible performance and reliability even if
one or more points in the network are not functioning," said Brian Carlson,
vice president and general manager of North America for Azalea Networks.
Azalea also offers public safety officials the benefits of its Motrix(TM)
technology, which allows mobility within a network, even at high speeds,
maintaining a continuous connection as the user moves through the network.

The clarity of the video and reliability of the Azalea network allowed Seattle
police officials to provide the public safety they needed without incurring
the costs of adding expensive infrastructure. The temporary wireless network
was designed to provide the flexibility of removing or repositioning the
cameras, routers, and antennas as needed to expand or move the network. "With
the wireless solution from Azalea, we are able to respond to and control
numerous situations that arise during these types of events," commented Moss.
"The flexibility to easily scale this network wherever and whenever needed
helps us become more efficient and effective in our quest to save lives and
make the entire community safer," he added.

Additional information on the Azalea wireless mesh video surveillance solution
can be found at http://www.azaleanet.com/Applications/Video-Surveillance/.

About Azalea Networks
Azalea Networks, headquartered in Silicon Valley, California,
(www.azaleanet.com) is the first company to provide network intelligence to
its broadband wireless mesh infrastructure through an innovative wireless
routing technology that sets new standards in price and performance. Azalea's
solution is ideal for service providers, government agencies, and industrial
enterprises that need the superior high performance, scalable capacity,
quality of service, seamless mobility and other advantages made possible by
true, intelligent network routing.

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respective owners. Azalea Networks and the Azalea Networks logo are trademarks
of Azalea Networks in the U.S. and various countries. (C)2009 Azalea Networks,
Inc. All rights reserved.

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Paul Gassett, Director, Worldwide Marketing Communications of Azalea Networks,
+1-314-842-1716, paul.gassett@azaleanet.com