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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Pinellas County Sheriff's Office Deploys Wi-Fi to Assure Inmate Safety
Kirkland, Wash. and Pinellas County, Fla. -The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office today announced that it has deployed an advanced wireless network within one of Florida's largest jail facilities using solutions from Wavelink Corporation, a leading provider of mobile infrastructure management software for the enterprise
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is among the first to deploy a wireless jail management system that assures that conditions for the inmates, deputies and staff are at the highest levels of safety and efficiency at all times. The innovative wireless network supports a variety of handheld devices and applications used by deputies and other staff to monitor inmate health and well-being, provide instant access to inmate records and photos, record location of inmates, and support wireless Voice over IP(VoIP) communications among deputies -- all designed to maximize the safety and efficiency of the day-to-day jail operations.
Network administrators recognized the need for a centralized management solution to keep administrative costs down, while maintaining consistent security and performance across a growing multi-vendor network. The end-to-end management provided by Wavelink Mobile Manager and Wavelink Avalanche has enabled the Sheriff's Office to centrally manage configuration and security profiles, apply software updates, and monitor and respond to network health and performance issues without having to physically access the network infrastructure or wireless devices. Network changes and maintenance that, without centralized management, would have taken several administrators weeks to roll out are now easily accomplished by one administrator in a matter of days.
“With an operation running 24 hours a day, seven days a week supported by a wireless network, it is vital to monitor, manage, update and secure the network at all times,” said Tom Baumgartner, network analyst, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
“Wavelink's Mobile Manager and Avalanche solutions help us maintain consistent network performance and troubleshoot network issues before they become major problems. Wavelink's solutions have allowed us to get the wireless network up and running, integrate multi-vendor infrastructure solutions and assure peak performance, and security with minimal time and resources.”
“Network reliability and security is vital to daily operations within organizations like the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office,” said David Bullis, president and CEO at Wavelink Corporation. “Wavelink's solution helps customers like Pinellas County ensure their network is consistently up and running and secure. And, most importantly, it gives the IT professionals the ability to be proactive and resolve issues before users are impacted and the phones start ringing.”
Wavelink's Mobile Manager enables network administrators to accelerate wireless local area networks (WLAN) configuration and deployment, enhance WLAN security and improve network health and performance by centralizing the management of WLANs and mobile devices. Wavelink offers the most widely-deployed and scalable multi-vendor, multi-platform wireless management solution. Wavelink's ease-of-use, interoperability and scalability allow customers to deploy the best products for their infrastructure, enabling a feature-rich and flexible environment.
Wavelink Avalanche is an industry-proven device management solution ideally suited for managing industrial handhelds, PDAs and laptops in a wide range of applications.
Avalanche provides IT professionals with the tools needed to centrally manage wireless devices, thereby dramatically decreasing the cost of operating and supporting wireless devices, applications and end users.
About Pinellas County Sheriff's Office
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office is a fully Accredited, Triple Crown Award Winning, Law Enforcement agency.
About Wavelink
Founded in 1992, Wavelink Corporation is the industry's leading provider of software solutions for the management of wireless LAN networks and mobile devices and the development of mission-critical wireless applications. Over 5,000 customers in nearly every industry use Wavelink's wireless management and application development software to solve the unique challenges involved in deploying, managing and controlling wireless LAN networks. Wavelink Mobile Manager™ and Wavelink Avalanche™ offer the most widely-used, multi-vendor solutions which solve wireless network and device management challenges by offering complete visibility, effective network management and control over wireless LAN access points and mobile devices. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.wavelink.com or call 425.823.0111.
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