Management

Enterprise IT and service providers can now deliver wireless access everywhere by using a combination of infrastructure that can include WiFi access points, mesh devices, point-to-point and even WiMax products. The AirWave Wireless Management Suite™ software makes the "Everywhere Network" completely manageable from a single console, delivering the critical functionality needed to monitor, configure and control the complex networks of tomorrow while extending the useful life of existing wireless infrastructure. The AirWave Wireless Management Suite is designed for ease of use for the entire IT or NOC staff, from the first-level helpdesk to the most experienced network engineer. All components of the AirWave Wireless Management Suite (including the Airwave Management Platform and Visual RF location module) are fully interoperable with Aruba infrastructure. For more information about AirWave solutions go to www.airwave.com

AirWave and Aruba

As WLANs become more mission-critical, enterprises need sophisticated monitoring and reporting capabilities across their entire infrastructure, including their state-of-the-art Aruba equipment as well as their legacy "autonomous" access points and third-party products. This is particularly true in "early adopter" industries, such as education, retail and healthcare. With AirWave, Aruba's sophisticated identity-based security features can be extended to legacy access points, and can be provided via an overlay structure in larger deployments. The addition of the AirWave Wireless Management Suite enables administrators to monitor and manage the entire wireless network - legacy and Aruba - from a single point. This eases administrative overhead and provides a consistent user experience, regardless of part of the wireless infrastructure that is being used.

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Amigopod was incorporated in 2006 after it's founders, working professionally in various areas of the IT sector, saw growing needs for simplified visitor network access solutions. With customers demanding solutions and nothing in the market place satisfying their requirements, amigopod took the initiative and embarked on designing a Visitor Management Appliance; the first dedicated platform for unified visitor management.

With offices in Sydney, Brisbane and Madrid, amigopod is well positioned to serve the Australian/Pacific and European markets through its growing network of channel partners. amigopod's team have a track record of providing network solutions for major corporations world wide and a strong history of success in the high tech sector having worked extensively for both start up and established blue chip companies.

Amigopod and Aruba

Simple secure management of external visitor access to your WLAN.

With the increasing number of external guests and visitors to a company network, per-user authentication and tracking is becoming a must to ensure security. Some companies have created a single shared visitor key or account, which is inherently insecure. Others have created individualized temporary accounts which require onerous management and consume limited resources. In either scenario, tracking and auditing is painful at best.

amigopod´s unified visitor management solutions provide customers with the most intuitive and flexible way to manage external visitors to an Aruba wireless network. Visitor accounts created and managed through the amigopod vma (visitor management appliance) are linked directly to security policies configured in the Aruba controller. This ensures that IT administrators are in control of the underlying security policy related to visitor network access, while non technical staff can easily and securely control the day-to-day administration of managing visitor accounts. The solution also provides powerful logging and reporting capabilities enabling companies to keep an audit trail of visitor network access.

Wavelink Corporation is a leading provider of multi-vendor mobile application development and mobile infrastructure management software solutions that keep mobile businesses moving. Wavelink's technology solves the unique challenges involved in deploying, managing and controlling RFID and auto-ID data collection, facilitating peak performance from frontline staff. Wavlink products that are interoperable with Aruba infrastructure include the Avalanche Mobility Center. For more information, please visit the company's Web site at www.wavelink.com.

WaveLink and Aruba

Aruba architecture tightly integrates with Wavelink's Avalanche Mobility Center (MC) to ensure secure, reliable connections as well as comprehensive management of each element of the mobile system. The combination ensures undisrupted operation of mobile applications, regardless of device type. When adding new access points, controllers, handheld devices and peripherals, Avalanche MC automatically discovers the hardware and applies the initial configurations/profiles, and provides a single unified console that manages both Aruba equipment and other connected mobile. The integrated Aruba and Wavelink solution delivers a cost-effective migration path from obsolete wireless infrastructure and legacy mobile devices, enabling the enterprise to phase out older devices without a disruption in mobile applications. This is particularly vital for industries such as retail, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and hospitals, as well as smaller remote locations.

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WildPackets develops innovative, easy-to-use solutions that enable organizations to monitor, troubleshoot, and secure their networks. The OmniAnalysis Platform gives network engineers intelligent, real-time, 24x7 visibility into every part of the network - simultaneously from a single interface - including Ethernet, Gigabit, 10GbE, Wireless, VoIP, and WAN. For more information about WildPackets, visit www.wildpackets.com

WildPackets and Aruba

Leveraging the extensible nature of WildPackets' OmniAnalysis Platform, Aruba and WildPackets have worked together to develop an integrated solution that lets Aruba air monitors feed 802.11 packet captures directly into WildPackets' OmniPeek software, allowing network engineers to identify, quantify and analyze both common and out-of-the-ordinary wireless network issues. Using a single management interface, the Aruba RF Director, network engineers can quickly transition one or more APs from network mode to capture mode, eliminating the need travel to the trouble area, and eliminating the need for complex and expensive overlay sensor networks. Effective troubleshooting requires immediate access to packets, both at the wireless source and on the wired network segment. With this solution, packet captures can be started the instant a problem is reported, both at the wireless source and on the wired network segment, allowing network engineers to capture critical network data as the problem is occurring. Save time, save money, extend your reach.

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