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PORT OPERATIONS f anyone still doubts the critical importance of dependable, secure and robust terminal communications within today’s

Secure Wireless

Imodern container terminal, then the news that the world’s frst fully automated container terminal in Melbourne, Australia is up and running should give those contrarians some serious

Communications pause. Kalmar and Navis – both part of the Cargotec group – re- cently delivered a turnkey automation solution to International

Streamlines and

Container Terminal Services Incorporated (ICTSI) at the Port of Melbourne, Australia. Unspoken in all of that is the need to securely communicate with all that remotely operated equip-

Protects Modern ment, in real time and with absolute reliability in a 24/7 mode.

Todd Rigby, Director of Sales at Rajant Corporation, says that the answer is quite simple, feld proven in the toughest

Box Terminals of conditions and ready now to meet the needs of tomorrow’s global supply chain. Getting the waterfront to wrap its arms around the futuristic, cutting edge communications solution will, however, be another thing altogether. When that happens,

Having access to mission-critical the route to automated and highly effcient terminals will have information helps port ofcials, become much shorter.

inspectors, employees and

Industrial Wireless Comms 101 tenants perform their tasks more

Rajant is a technology company with a focus on deliver- ing wireless network solutions that address the challenges productively as they move around of modern day Wi-Fi. The Philadelphia-based Rajant team the seaport. Rajant’s wireless implements wireless network infrastructures that deliver re- liable, scalable and secure communications in industrial set- solution delivers military grade tings, while delivering on the promises of today’s IIoT. comms to vulnerable supply chains

Incorporated in 2003, Rajant’s Kinetic Mesh networks are made up of intelligent nodes called BreadCrumbs which are – just in time.

powered by its proprietary InstaMesh protocol. These net- works have been successfully deployed across the globe and

By Joseph Keefe offer customers sustainable investments that change the way 54 Maritime Logistics Professional September/October 2017 | |