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Wireless Network Controlers

Wireless Management Suite

       

Access Points                     

The Enterasys Wireless solution optimizes distribution of the processing load between Access Points (APs) and wireless controllers to deliver exceptional performance while remaining easy to manage. Complex, time-sensitive functions such as QoS, encryption, policy enforcement, rate limiting, and dynamic channel selection are handled by the AP, while global functions like configuration, roaming, security management, and policy control are centralized at the wireless controller or the Enterasys Network Management Suite (NMS) console. In addition, the innovative Enterasys Wireless solutions-oriented architecture is able to determine how to forward traffic for the highest performance and reliability for each application. The result is a flexible and dependable WLAN infrastructure that can easily be leveraged to deploy VoWLAN and new high-performance solutions such as HD video.

• Enterasys Wireless Access Points provide:
• Enterasys access points provide full 802.11n 3x3 MIMO functionality using standard 802.3af PoE
• Easy and cost-effective migration path to 802.11n
• Comprehensive wireless security services for authentication, encryption, IPS, and NAC
• Flexible architecture supports centralized and/or distributed traffic forwarding for voice/video/data applications
• Policy enforcement and rate limiting at the AP support diverse deployments
• Unified wired/wireless role-based access control with guest networking.

Wireless Controllers

The award-winning Enterasys Wireless Controller family provides a scalable range of solutions that are ideal for managed WLAN deployments supporting demanding voice/video/data applications. Our Wireless Controllers are simple to deploy and manage, yet provide advanced functionality to allow organizations to define how wireless voice/video/data traffic is processed without architectural constraints and in accordance with the business needs.

The Enterasys Wireless Controller portfolio includes:

• The C20 supporting up to 64 Access Points (APs).
• The C25 supporting up to 96 APs.
• The C4110 supporting up to 500 APs.
• The C5110 supporting up to 1050 APs.

The C25, C4110, and C5110 are covered by Enterasys’ controller Lifetime Warranty offering the lowest TCO in the industry. Enterasys Wireless Controllers provide role-based management for users, devices, and applications with individualized services including Quality of Service (QoS), call admission control, secure access policies, network access control (NAC), captive portals, rate limiting, multicast, filtering, and traffic forwarding. These WLAN services are enabled by the unique and flexible Enterasys Wireless solutions-oriented architecture, easily provisioned, and simply managed by an intuitive web interface.

Each controller supports mixed mode deployments of 802.11n and 802.11a/b/g APs along with the ability to seamlessly roam between access points and controllers, providing scalability and ease of deployment. For large deployments, Enterasys Wireless further simplifies the management of thousands of APs by creating mobility zones that extend the WLAN services across multiple wireless controllers. Mobility zones maintain the service definitions and the individual policies throughout the entire mobility zone, ensuring that policies follow the user regardless of physical location.

Enterasys Wireless provides an easy, low cost way to deploy 802.11n solutions, delivering cost-effective pricing, wired/wireless integration, and low TCO while openly supporting a broad range of mobile voice, video, and location-based applications to drive enterprise productivity and reduce the overall cost of mobility. With the ability to deliver both centralized and distributed traffic forwarding by application, Enterasys Wireless Controllers enable a flexible, cost-effective path to deploying 802.11n for the enterprise. Backed by industry-leading global support and services, Enterasys Wireless solutions enable customers to leverage existing investments and avoid forklift upgrades.

Wireless Management Suite

The Enterasys Wireless Management Suite (WMS) is a powerful centralized management platform for the Enterasys Wireless portfolio, consolidating management information from across the entire WLAN to provide a global network perspective. The solution is enhanced by the WMS Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS) option which provides sophisticated wireless intrusion prevention and location assessment capabilities.

Enterasys WMS aggregates network and usage data from multiple Enterasys Wireless Controllers and Access Points to provide IT managers with an extensive set of historical reports. Thresholds can be defined for easy identification and resolution of pending scalability or performance issues. Events and alerts are consolidated in a dashboard, complemented by easy-to-read charts, statistics, and reports that detail information about users, devices, and traffic.

The Wireless Management Suite WIPS centralizes all WLAN security events detected by access points and optional sensors. With WIPS, the same access points that provide wireless service can be used as permanent RF scanning sensors, or be configured for periodic scans, adding even more efficiency to network operations. WIPS can take automatic action upon detecting security events to immediately block and accurately identify the location of rogue access points and clients, allowing their prompt removal while the threat is contained through RF countermeasures.

Successful WLAN deployments require optimum placement of access points and RF sensors in order to ensure maximum performance. WIPS greatly facilitates this task by providing visual “heat maps” that enable network managers to assess signal strength and identify weak spots. In addition, built-in troubleshooting capabilities offer step-by-step instructions on how to detect and address bottlenecks and failures.

Many business environments must comply with government or industry regulations. The WIPS Reporting option automates this task by generating comprehensive pre-defined compliance and custom reports.

The Enterasys Wireless Management Suite ensures that the deployment of any Enterasys Wireless network is easy and consistent with the business objectives of the enterprise.

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