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Chapter 6: Advanced Configurations

Thischapterprovidesinformationaboutadvancedsettingsyoucanconfigure

fortheCommunicator.Thesesettingsarenotnecessarytousethe

Communicator,butprovideadditionalwaystocustomizeyournetwork

transmissionandcommunication.

Thefollowinginformationisprovided:

• ConfiguringZones

• AddingChannels

• AddingDeviceGroups

• ConfiguringHotKeys

• UsingtheKeyHelper

• AssigningDeviceAudio

Eachofthetasksrequiresthatyoudeploytheupdatedconfigurationstoyour

mobiledevices.Thesettingswillalsobeappliedifthemobiledevicechecksin

totheAvalanchesystem.

Configuring Zones

AZoneisamulti‐caseIPaddressthatallowsyoutosegmentyournetwork

communicationbeyondthesimplenetworkprofiles.Youcancreatemultiple

zonesbasedonthetransmissionareas.Youcan configurethefollowing

optionsforzones:

• Name.Indicatesthenameofthezone.Youcannamethezoneanything

basedonhowyouwanttodistinguishbetweeneachzone.

• IPAddress.TheIPaddressmustbeamulti‐castaddress.

• TTL(TimetoLive).Referstothenumberofhopsthetransmission willtake

fromroutertorouter ,decrementingby1eachtime.The highertheTTL

count,themorelikelyapacketmaybedelayedordropped.

• Networks.DisplaystheavailablenetworkstoaddtotheZone.Becausea

networkassociatestheZonetothedevicesIPaddresses,youmusthavea