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    As data goes from control to server to camera and back to server, the number of pps and the latency are cumulative.

    Let’s look at how packet sizes can effect the capacity of a WiMAX sector with a real life example. The first 3 applications are VoIP using different CODECs. These can use anywhere from 33 to 50 PPS for as long as a user is on the phone. Skype requires 80 PPS, according to their website FAQ. The next 3 applications (Internet, File Upload, & File Download) have been calculated a bit differently. We have assumed service offerings that limit customer data speeds to a MAXIMUM of 512k Download and 128K Upload. We have been conservative on these speeds as not to “over dramatize” our point. According to Microsoft TechNet, average packet size for Internet downloads is 400 Bytes, FTP uploads average 700 Bytes, and downloads average 1,200 Bytes. To figure the PPS we convert the Kbps to Bytes per second and then divide by the packet size: Internet : 512 Kbits per second = 64,000 Bytes per second so, 64,000 ÷400= 160 PPS File Upload: 128 Kbits per second = 16,000 Bytes per second so, 16,000 ÷700= 23 PPS File Download: 512 Kbits per second = 64,000 Bytes per second so, 64,000 ÷1,200= 53 PPS - CLICK – Now we are going to fill our sector with a certain number of sessions per application. Remember that a single WiMAX Subscriber Radio can have many, many simultaneous sessions behind it. Imagine a home user that is downloading a music album from itunes.com while taking to a friend on Skype, and sending an e-mail. Now imagine a business subscriber with 25 PCs on the network, all connected to the Internet via a WiMAX Radio. Anyway, in our case we have a total of 212 sessions in this sector, (2 VoIP @ 64 Kbps, 33 VoIP @ 8Kbps, etc.). The sector requirements are 18,613 Kbps and 13,477 PPS. This capacity taps out a 19Mbps WiMAX sector and demonstrates impressive capacity.

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    1. Top 10 Planning Hints Wireless for Video Surveillance Mitch Vine [email_address] Sr. Director, Product Line Management August 19, 2009
    2. Legal Disclaimer
      • This documentation is a presentation of general background information about Redline Communications Group Inc.’s (“Redline”) business and activities current as of the date of this presentation, unless otherwise indicated. It is information in a summary form and does not purport to be complete.
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    3. Agenda
      • Introduction
      • Wireless Options
      • Top 10 Planning Hints
      • Bosch Test Results
      • For a copy of this presentation send an email to:
      • [email_address]
    4. Business Overview Redline is a leading manufacturer of WiMAX and proprietary broadband wireless infrastructure products for telecommunications carriers and other network operators. Revenue Growth: Over $200M cumulative revenue growing from $1.7M in ’02 to $43M in ’08 – CAGR 57.4% Top Tier Customers : Including China Telecom, Zain, MTN, TIM/Personal, China Unicom, Saudi Telecom, T-Mobile, OTE, PTCL Lintasarta, Telus, TeraGo, Clearwire, Towerstream, VIBO, Tatung Infocom, AGIP, Chevron, Saudi Aramco, US Army, Hydro One and NPB Pakistan History: Founded in 1999, with HQ in Toronto, Canada, R&D centers in Bucharest & Craiova Romania and a proven team of people in 16 countries Market Traction : More than 150,000 systems deployed in 129 countries, 170+ WiMAX deployments, 70+ Commercial WiMAX Networks Financing History: $122M invested since 1999 from TSX IPO (Oct ’07); AIM IPO (Dec ’06); Telemedia Corp, Matrix Partners, US Venture Partners & GF Equity Share Information: TSX: RDL
    5. Broadband Wireless Infrastructure Customer Deployments
    6. Our Vertical Market Customers Carriers LEC / CLEC / WISP Government Military / HLS / MUSH Transportation Trains / ITS / Light Rail Energy SmartGrid / Oil & Gas Transportation / Rail / ITS Carriers Military Homeland Security & Public Safety Electric Utilities Smart Grid Oil & Gas
    7. Wireless - Keys to Success
      • Wireless is often the best and/or most cost effective way to transport video
      • Proper engineering and installation ensures long term reliability and performance.
      • All wireless products are not equal
      • There are a growing number of specialists that can help you plan and deploy your wireless video surveillance network
      • Top 10 Tips for Planning and Deploying Wireless Video Surveillance Networks
    8. #1: Capacity: plan for next 5-10 years
      • Wireless networks can support high capacity of traffic – but you need to estimate and plan for bandwidth and latency demand up front.
        • 4CIF cameras can generate 2000+ kbps of data per camera, Megapixel could generate 35,000 kbps!
        • New applications (ie video analytics) put additional demands on your network
        • A change in servers and control stations could add additional demands
        • Will your network be carrying other (non video) traffic?
    9. # 1: More on Capacity
      • Estimate the “real” bandwidth requirement for individual links, and for total of the sector. Keep in mind it is not likely all cameras will be transmitting at full data rate all the time.
      • Conservative designers account for a radio “fade margin” in their estimates. The right combination of equipment and antennas will provide the
      • Design for adequate radio fade margin + allowance for peak MPEG activity will provide the reliability needed
    10. # 1: More on Capacity Important Note. The bitrates listed in the table above are only approximations and can vary widely in reality. The numbers are based on medium activity, however a busy scene which would mean constant activity, or an outdoor scene or continuous PTZ motion, can consume up to 50-200% more bandwidth.  Conversely a quiet scene, with little or no activity, can consume 10-40% less bandwidth. The factors affecting bitrates are so numerous that the only way to estimate with any accuracy is to install a camera in the actual environment for a short while and measure the consumption. SOURCE: Bosch Learning Center Resolution IPS Activity Level Bit Rate (Kbps) CIF 3 Medium 160 CIF 7 Medium 185 CIF 15 Medium 200 CIF 30 Medium 500         2CIF 3 Medium 320 2CIF 7 Medium 370 2CIF 15 Medium 400 2CIF 30 Medium 1,000         4CIF 3 Medium 640 4CIF 7 Medium 740 4CIF 15 Medium 800 4CIF 30 Medium 2,000
    11. Planning for Capacity - Megapixel
      • Megpixel requires high performance wireless products
      Source: Bosch Learning Centre
    12. Wireless Options
      • Point to Point
      Camera Encoder RedCONNEX RedCONNEX Decoder Point to Point Advantages Disadvantages Highest Speed up to 90 Mbps Uses one radio channel per link Lowest Latency < 1 msec May be more expensive Longest Range up to 50 km May not be room for multiple links at the hub site
    13. Wireless Options
      • Point to Multipoint
      Camera Encoder RedACCESS RedACCESS Decoders Advantages Disadvantages Only uses radio channel Lower range / speed Shares one base station Capacity is shared Less real estate needed at the base station
    14. Wireless Options
      • Hybrid Example: Backhaul a Wireless Camera Cluster
      Cameras REDACCESS RedCONNEX RedCONNEX Decoder Combines a group of cameras either through a RedAccess or Wi-Fi Access Point
    15. #2: Understanding latency impact
      • Latency is cumulative – hop to hop, round trip
      • Latency will be most noticeable in PTZ, audio
      • The latency of products vary dramatically from less than 1 ms per hop on the Redline RedCONNEX to 70+ ms per hop on other products
      • Outdoor interference can increase latency and decreased capacity dramatically - particularly in 802.11 / Wi-Fi products.
    16. Latency Requirements Calculating the latency is not straightforward. Integrators must understand the actual flow of data and the processing time at each hop.
    17. # 3: Engineer your outdoor wireless system
      • Proper engineering of each link will ensure your wireless network can deliver the performance and reliability you need…trust the experts!
      • Some Key Factors
          • Minimum and Maximum Capacity/Latency Needed
          • Length of the Link
          • Power and Technology of the Radios
          • Presence of Interference
          • Type, Size, and Placement/Height of the Antennas
          • Local Terrain
          • Permanent and Temporary Obstructions
          • Allowance for Fading (temporary signal reductions)
    18. # 4: Select wireless products can trade off capacity dynamically to maintain a good link
      • Video quality declines rapidly when packets are lost
      • Local radio conditions change based on interference, weather, temperature, foliage, temporary obstructions, wind moving antennas, temporary fading, etc.
      • A Redline feature known as “dynamic ARQ” will rapidly retry missed transmissions to avoid lost packets
      • A Redline feature known as “adaptive modulation” – may temporarily slow down the max radio speed but will keep the link intact .
      • These adaptive features adjust within milliseconds.
    19. # 5: Understand upstream and downstream data rates
      • Most wireless products fix the ratio of capacity allocated for upstream and downstream – typically 50% upstream, 50% downstream. This limits video to 50% of the available bandwidth.
      • Many products are designed to send most traffic from the internet to the user – which is the opposite of what is needed for most video surveillance installations!
      • Ideally a product will adjust the upstream/downstream ratio dynamically many times per second: this features is known as “Dynamic TDD” (dynamic time division duplexing). This allows you to get 100%+ of your capacity available for video data, but adjust in the other direction when required for bursts of data going in the other direction.
    20. Dynamic Frame Size
      • Most Radios use fixed frames sizes to transmit data.
      • The Radio will not adapt its frame size to match the size of the packets being created by the video encoder. This is very wasteful
        • Packets are sent in frames that are too large – wasting capacity and adding latency
        • Packets have to be chopped up and sent in multiple frames – again wasting capacity and adding latency
      • Redline uses Dynamic Frame Sizes The radios adapt – moment by moment to the packet sizes produced by the video encoder.
    21. # 6: Outdoor installations require outdoor enclosure and professional installation
      • Some Key Factors
          • Proper antenna choice and alignment
          • Antenna mounting i.e.: high winds
          • Lightning protection – top and bottom
          • Proper grounding
          • Cable and connector installations for power, data and antenna cables – water is a huge problem
          • IP67 water submersion protected enclosures
          • Equipment that can handle temperature extremes
      AN-80i
    22. #7: Understand the limitations of Wi-Fi products
      • 90% of the products on the market are essentially indoor Wi-Fi (802.11) products that have been repackaged
          • Wi-Fi was designed for indoor connections
          • Designed for 100 meter range, limited interference handling, limited security, limited QoS tools
          • Maintains connectivity by giving up capacity to get a connection
          • Designed for data, not for voice or video
          • Transmit power tends to be limited
          • Like old coax LAN, efficiency drops as number of users increases due to collisions between their data
      • Wi-Fi uses a protocol that is highly sensitive to interference
          • Performance and latency degrade rapidly in the presence of interference
    23. Atheros Throughput Example Wi-Fi is extremely sensitive to packet size Max throughput can only be achieved when big packet sizes are transmitted. packet size 64 Bytes 128 Bytes 256 Bytes 512 Bytes 1024 Bytes 1280 Bytes 1518 Bytes 1522 Bytes (Vlan tagged) UL % DL% AN80i Wi-Fi AN80i Wi-Fi AN80i Wi-Fi AN80i Wi-Fi AN80i Wi-Fi AN80i Wi-Fi AN80i Wi-Fi AN80i Wi-Fi 20 80 43.9 0.04 44.5 0.3 43.9 1.4 44.6 7.7 43.5 37.0 45.1 39.4 42.0 38.9 46.4 38.8 40 60 45.8 0.03 46.5 0.3 43.9 1.4 46.8 10.1 46.0 41.5 47.2 43.2 42.0 39.9 46.4 40.4 50 50 46.5 0.03 47.1 0.3 43.9 1.4 47.3 9.5 46.5 42.8 47.2 43.1 42.0 44.8 46.4 44.6 60 40 45.8 0.03 46.5 0.3 43.9 1.4 46.8 10.1 46.0 41.5 47.2 43.2 42.0 39.9 46.4 40.4 80 20 43.9 0.04 44.5 0.3 43.9 1.4 44.6 7.7 43.5 37.0 45.1 39.4 42.0 38.9 46.4 38.8
    24. Privacy and Security
      • Secure Nodal Authentication
        • X.509 Wireless node and link level authentication
      • Secure at the Management Level
        • SSH, HTTPS support
        • SNMP V3 support
      • Secure at the Transmission Level
        • FIPS 197 certified AES-256 bit encryption
      • Secure at the System Level
        • FIPS 140-2 certification in progress
      Redline has worked extensively with the US DoD to ensure that its products meet the stringent requirements of the US military
    25. # 8: Quality of Service (QoS) is Critical
      • Be able to segregate multicast traffic to a specific group of cameras / servers / control stations
      • You want to be able to set Committed Info Rate (CIR), and a Peak Info Rate (PIR) for each camera
      • Segregate video traffic from other traffic (audio, data) for performance management
    26. # 9: Calculate your packets per second
      • Some wireless products support a very limited number of packets per second
      • Many of the cheaper products support only about 5,000-10,000 packets per second.
      • Redline’s AN-80i supports 100BaseT line speed - 176,000 packets per second
      • This is why Wi-Fi products typically perform very poorly with small packets
    27. Capacity Planning for Packet per Second
      • This tool will help calculate the bandwidth in Kbps/Mbps AND the processing drain in packets per second (pps).
    28. # 10: Hire an outdoor wireless specialist
      • Hire a wireless specialist !!
          • Installs long range outdoor links every month
          • Has installed hundreds of outdoor links
          • Understand antenna and tower issues
          • Will do site surveys
          • Will provide support after the sale
      • Buy equipment from a distributor who specializes in outdoor wireless equipment
      • Performance, reliability, and safety depend on it
    29. Bosch Test
    30. Bosch Encoder Resolution Settings Table 1: Bandwidth Requirements for MPEG-4 Settings Bosch Settings Data Rates MPEG-4 Encoder Setting Video Resolution (Pixels) Description Encoding Interval* Medium activity data rate Committed info rate (Kbps) 4CIF/D1 704 x 576 / 480 High quality - high bandwidth 1 2000 4000 2/3 D1 464 x 576 / 480 High quality - low delay 1 1500 3000 CIF 352 x 288 / 240 High quality - low bandwidth 1 700 1500 DSL 352 x 288 / 240 DSL - 500 Kbps 1 400 500 ISDN(1B) 352 x 288 / 240 ISDN - one B channel 1 80 100 ISDN(2B) 352 x 288 / 240 ISDN - two B channels 1 40 50 Modem 352 x 288 / 240 Analog modem - 20 Kbps 2 20 22 GSM 176 x 144 / 120 GSM - 9.6 Kbps 4 7 8
    31. Deployment Assumptions - sample
      • IGMP (Internet Group Mgmt Protocol) must be enabled on all switches and routers in the data path (for multicast management)
      • VideoJet X10 does not support VLAN tagged packets. Remove the tags before the packets are received by the VideoJet
      • Average 3 km from hub site to the cameras sites, max 5 km
      • Redline AN-80i Subscriber station to Subscriber station multicast feature is set to “disable”
      • VideoJet encoder “remote image storage” feature is disable
      • VideoJet encoder to VIP XD “decoder encryption feature” is disabled
      • Send an email to [email_address] to request the detailed Bosch set-up recommendations
    32. Bosch Test Results – 20 MHz Channel 108 Mbps is available Point-to-Point RedACCESS Point-Multipoint
    33. Bosch Test Results – 10 MHz Channel RedACCESS Point-Multipoint
    34. Introducing the AN-80i
      • Supports both point to point, and point to multipoint
      • Designed for high performance and reliability in real world environments
      • Delivers:
        • Extreme Reliability & Flexibility
        • Robust OFDM for Non Line of Sight
        • Up to 80+ km Range & 108 Mbps Capacity
        • <1 ms Low Latency
        • Multicast Support
        • FIPS 140-2 High Security
        • Ease of Deployment & Management
        • 3.65, 4.9 to 5.8 GHz Bands of Operations
        • 4.9 GHz public safety radio band
      AN-80i – Professional Wireless Broadband Infrastructure Solution
    35. AN-80i: Ideal for Video
      • Compact, rugged all outdoor design
      • Choose the best antenna for the link
      • IEEE 802.3af PoE Power Over Ethernet connectivity – can be powered from your Ethernet switch
    36. RedMAX 802.16d WiMAX Product
      • Certified 802.16d WiMAX
      • High-Capacity WiMAX
        • 500 Subs per sector
        • 37,000 PPS
        • 22 Mbps on 7MHz channel
      • Designed for excellent range
      • Supports variable size frames
      • Works well upstream or downstream
      • Third-Party CPE availability
        • Many 802.16d CPEs available TODAY
      • Operates in the 3.6 GHz band
    37. 4.9GHz Public Safety Band Usage
      • AN-80i 4.9GHz version radio is reserved only for public safety users
      • A license exempt 5.25-5.35GHz backup band also available on the same radio
        • Allows flexible use of radio resource
      • Complies with FCC and Industry Canada regulations
    38. Police public safety network for State of Queretaro Mexico
      • Over 350 cameras deployed over a large area
      • State network used for public safety / surveillance applications
    39. Video Surveillance – Manchester
      • Facts:
        • Community safety monitoring initiative in UK
          • reduce shoplifting, street violence, etc.
        • Sold as a managed service offering to the local police
        • High resolution cameras (25 frames per second) required for court evidence
      • Drivers:
        • Previously high quality video was provided by fiber
        • Pricing was very expensive and location dependent
        • Connections took too long to provision
      • Wireless Advantages:
        • Some connections were obstructed line of sight and Redline worked very well
        • Cameras required a combination of PtP and PtmP links stretching from 10-20 Kms from central location
        • Each camera required a minimum committed BW of 4 Mb/s with low latency
        • Ease of expansion and growth
    40. Video Surveillance – Turkey
      • Facts:
        • Fixed, speed-dome and license plate recognition system cameras
        • Monitoring entire city 24/7 surveillance
      • Drivers:
        • City security management system in Simav (focus on entry / exit points)
        • Analyze visual records to solve past incidents
        • Prevention of riots during public meetings and gatherings
      • Wireless Advantages:
        • Ongoing operational cost almost zero
        • Seamlessly connects into existing network
        • Much clearer images supported
        • Ease of expansion and growth
    41. THANK YOU For more info: Mitch Vine [email_address]

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