Customer Deployments - Bonipak

Bonipak




Since 1932, the Ferini and Ardantz families have been farming in Central California. Over 70 years later, and many expansions, Bonita Packing Company is now a leader in the produce growing industry with state-of-the art cultivating, storing, and shipping including an expansive 100,000 square feet of cold storage, a 17,000 square foot staging area where loads are prepared for trucks even before they back into the dock and a refrigerated staging area that accommodates up to 200 trucks each day. Boni-Fresh, Bonipak's fresh cut division, is unmatched in the industry. From planting to harvest to processing, Boni-Fresh products are always under strict Bonipak food safety standards, where there is never compromise for quality or freshness.Bonipak's award-winning farming division, Betteravia Farms, grows nearly 18,000 crop acres of multi-commodity farmland in California and Arizona.

Requirements

  • Resilient Wi-Fi network to run mission critical inventory and order management applications
  • Ubiquitous Tri-mode (802.11a/b/g) coverage across the entire facility
  • Support over 100 client devices including bar code scanners, laptops and Wi-Fi-enabled printers
  • Future proof Wi-Fi equipment to handle new, higher bandwidth applications that will be utilized
  • Use the fewest devices possible to contain equipment, labor, management and installation costs

Benefits
  • Seamless 802.11a/b/g coverage and roaming across the entire facility
  • Efficient, secure, and robust giving an intelligent edge to the network
  • Fewer devices and cabling needed
  • Fully upgradeable to 802.11n

Savings
  • Ratio of Wi-Fi Arrays to traditional APs
        1:6
  • Number of additional access points that did not have to be installed
        20
  • Number of additional cable runs that did not have to be pulled
        20
  • Number of switch ports that did not have to be consumed
       20
  • Average power savings per year (kWh)
        6,833

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