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Features and Benefits

The PacketHop Wireless Video System delivers superior video quality of service and performance for a variety of situations, including:

  • Where wiring is impractical or too expensive.
  • Accessing video from CCTV or digital video surveillance systems to provide first responders and security agencies with video from inside a building or vehicle.
  • The ability to share video and information between multiple organizations or agencies.
  • Deploying ad hoc or fixed video surveillance systems to monitor events and provide security.
  • Use cases where a secure, authenticated, private network is required.

The PacketHop Wireless Video System offers a variety of benefits beyond those provided traditional video systems.

Video multicasting

  • Protocols optimized for video streaming.
  • Optimized QoS (Quality of Service) for video transmission and multicasting.
  • View multiple videos from multiple sources over multiple connections in the network.
  • Multicasting greatly reduces the required bandwidth for every camera.
  • Performance: Proactive routing provides dependable network performance reduces latency and increases data throughput.

Standards-based design

  • Industry Standards: Works with standard off-the-shelf 802.11 a/b/g, 4.9 GHz and cellular data radios.
  • Reduces cost: Freedom from expensive infrastructure deployments substantially reduces costs.
  • Easy to deploy: Installs on standard laptops and servers. Does not require towers or wireless access points to deploy and operate.

Video multicasting

  • Compatibility: Works with readily available IEEE 802.11a and 4.9 GHz commercial off-the-shelf radios to substantially reduce costs.
  • Future flexibility: Designed to be compatible with future standards such as 802.11s, 802.11n and WiMAX.
  • Reduces cost: Freedom from expensive infrastructure deployments substantially reduces costs.
  • Easy to deploy: Installs on standard laptops and servers. Does not require towers or wireless access points to deploy and operate.

Multi-Layer security

  • Industry standard WPA2 authentication.
  • AES encryption and secure tunneling (VPN).
  • Application layer security with role-based user permissions.
  • Designed to be NIMS and FIPS 140-2 compliant for strong security.

Instant broadband mesh network for mobile access

  • Highly scalable: The network becomes more resilient as new nodes are added. There are no practical limits on the geography, number of users or agencies on the network.
  • Self-forming: For mobile access, mesh network forms instantly and adapts automatically as users come into range.
  • Survivable: Provides communication without network infrastructure being required.
  • Excels at mobility: User connections can come and go during communication.
  • Autonomous: Works with or without connections to the Internet.

Works with existing WiFi infrastructure and cellular data networks

  • High & low bandwidth remote participation: Cellular data (via optional external USB devices) or WiFi infrastructure, such as municipal WiFi, can be used to provide backhaul, allowing remote users to participate in a local mesh as if they were there at the scene.
  • Can be used to backhaul data when a backhaul connection is available. Connection to backhaul is not required for local mesh connectivity or networking.
  • Remote participation: Remote personnel can participate as if they are on scene.
  • Provides redundant connectivity over multiple backhaul networks.

Interoperability

  • Agencies providing mutual aid or interested in accessing or sharing video can use PacketHop to interoperate, streamlining processes and communications and making personnel more effective.