Rocket Access Point

Upload large files quickly and reliably.

Mission-critical digital media—video and images—is expanding exponentially. Video has become vital for evidence and safety. However, the challenge is to get digital media from vehicle videocam systems to network storage quickly and reliably—with an indisputable chain of custody. Our technology quickly transfers large video data files from the vehicle to our access points, and gets your officers and field crews back out to the field to do the work they were hired to do.

Benefits

 

Benefit from practical solutions.

We understand the operational and communications challenges you face. Our practical and reliable end-to-end solution solves the video upload challenges facing our first responder and utility customers.

 

Avoid the “Million-dollar Parking Lot”.

You hired your officers and field crews to be out on the street doing work—not sitting in a parking lot babysitting a slow WiFi data upload. The collective labor cost of slow video upload idle time is millions of dollars per year for a large organization. Video data has to get from the vehicles to video storage servers quickly and reliably—with a solid chain of custody. With fast video upload time, personnel can get out of the parking lot and back on the job.

 

Eliminate manual update processes.

Replace cumbersome, manual mapbook, engineering standards, and safety manual page replacement processes by wirelessly downloading complex GIS, building layouts and safety handbooks as well as other large data files to any vehicle. Your field staff needs to work safely and efficiently on the tasks that make a difference to citizens and customers.

 

Optimize load balancing between multiple Access Points.

With multiple Access Points in a parking lot, Rockets in multiple vehicles will perform load balancing. Each Rocket will negotiate and choose the “least busy” Access Point to upload data.  Load balancing ensures that simultaneous data uploads from multiple vehicles are completed as quickly as possible, so your officers and field staff can get back to performing the work they were hired to do as quickly as possible.

 

Connect on multiple wireless frequencies.

Our Access Points and Rockets support the 5GHz frequency band as well as standard 2.4GHz WiFi. Avoiding the crowded 2.4Ghz WiFi band allows much faster data uploads. Our experience is 5GHz provides the faster upload capability by far.

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Technical Specs

 

Tap into easy-to-manage technology that “just works.”

Our solutions will not create additional technical challenges on top of the operations challenges you already face. Our technology is rugged, reliable, and does not depend upon a human being to do anything to make it work.

 

Multiple Frequency Bands and Protocols

  • The Rocket Access Point (RAP) uses a combination of industry standard frequencies and protocols plus Rocket messaging to provide ultra-high speed data upload capability. 
  • The RAP and Rockets automatically negotiate to maximize data throughput, security, and reliability.

Dynamic Load Balancing with Multiple Rocket Access Points

  • Each Rocket will negotiate with multiple Rocket Access Points when it enters a parking lot, and will connect to the “least busy” Rocket Access Point.
  • During a file upload, the Rocket will seamlessly and dynamically switch the file upload to a “less busy” Rocket Access Point.
  • Load balancing works between Rockets and Rocket Access Points—but not with other vendor wireless access points.
  • Load balancing minimizes file upload time for multiple vehicles uploading video from the parking lot, thereby minimizing the “Million Dollar Parking Lot” problem.

Durable

  • Weatherproof enclosure
  • Shielded internal antennas
  • Non-conducting fiberglass and carbon fiber casing is less attractive to lightning strikes
  • Purposely designed to not attract attention from vandals

Network Connectivity

  • 1GB Ethernet port for maximum throughput to the enterprise network
  • MIMO for maximum wireless throughput
  • Antenna diversity for maximum wireless throughput

Power over Ethernet

  • Standard 48v Power over Ethernet (PoE)—no need for a separate power connection
  • Dedicated RJ45 cable for power and separate dedicated RJ45 cable for 1GB Ethernet
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