Cisco Wireless Network Enhances Cargo Management for Real-Time Monitoring at Vladivostok Container Terminal

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Tue Apr 7, 2009 8:00am EDT 

  MOSCOW, Apr 07 (MARKET WIRE) -- 
A new Cisco Unified Wireless Network has allowed the Vladivostok
Container Terminal (VCT) to set up an advanced cargo management system
that now monitors all arrivals, departures and movement of containers in
real time, as well as register railway, truck and maritime transportation.

    The container terminal operations required data transfer through an
802.11g wireless network with full coverage of the VCT territory, high
resilience and the shortest possible outages. LANIT DV, a Premier
Certified Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) Partner and an experienced company in
wireless network implementation, set up the new Cisco Unified Wireless
Network with minimal delay and packet loss in a difficult radio frequency
environment, where significant interference is caused by metallic
containers piled up to 14 meters high.

    "The new system has enhanced business capabilities such as cargo tracking
and has exceeded our expectations, with coverage of about 98 percent of
our territory," said Sergei Protopovich, CIO, VCT. "The wireless network
helped reduce the volume and frequency of radio communications and data
entry, accelerating the speed of business and boosting the quality of
customer service."

    The VCT wireless access network uses Cisco Aironet wireless access points
and adaptive monitoring and management systems that offer intelligent
wireless network management, transparent integration inside and outside
the offices, automatic set up of access points, and more secure outdoor
wireless access. The solution uses dynamic algorithms to support automatic
tuning, optimization and troubleshooting which is critically important for
enabling reliable and secure business applications.

    "It is essential that we offer solutions tailored to each customer's
unique needs and allow them to be up and running as soon as possible,"
said Andrei Mushatenko, head of the telecommunications department, LANIT
DV. "After benchmarking against alternative solutions, Cisco's solution
proved that it could deliver on the high-performance demands of the new
management system."

    About the Vladivostok Container Terminal

    VCT is a major container operator which continuously extends the
throughput of existing berths. VCT is located at Kilometer One of the
Trans-Siberian Railway which makes it an important transport node linking
Russia, CIS and Europe with South-East Asia (Korea, China, Vietnam),
North America, as well as Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and Chukotka.

    About LANIT DV

    LANIT DV has been operating at computing, networking, telecommunications
and information technologies markets since 1996. It is a major network
integrator of the Russian Far East. More information about its activities
and projects is available at: www.lanitdv.ru.

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