The AirWave Wireless Management Suite - Management for the 'Everywhere Network'
New technologies make it possible for enterprise IT and service providers to deliver wireless access everywhere -- indoors and outdoors, in vast warehouses and small remote offices. These new 'Everywhere Networks' require the use of multiple wireless technologies and architectures, encompasing literally thousands of infrastructure devices:
- WiFi access points to provide wall-to-wall coverage in buildings.
- Mesh to extend the wireless network in buildings where it is impractical or too costly to pull cable €“ or even to blanket campuses and entire towns with outdoor wireless coverage.
- WiMax products enable affordable wireless broadband delivered over many miles.
The new AirWave Wireless Management Suite software makes the Everywhere Network completely manageable from a single console. The 5.0 release extends the market-leading capabilities of the AirWave software used by 400+ organizations today, delivering the critical functionality needed to monitor, configure and control the complex Everywhere Networks of tomorrow:
- Up to 75% reduction in wireless problem resolution time
- Up to 40% reduction of overall wireless LAN support calls
- Elimination of misconfigured and 'rogue' wireless access points
- Support for current generation and legacy products to extend hardware lifecycles
- Scalability to 25,000+ devices
- Easy to use for network engineers, Help Desk staff, auditors, executives and more
- Eliminates single-vendor dependency.
The AirWave Wireless Management Suite supports hardware from leading wireless vendors, including Aruba Networks, Avaya, Cisco (Aironet and Airespace), Colubris Networks, Enterasys, Juniper Networks, LANCOM Systems, Nomadix, ProCurve by HP, Proxim, Symbol, Tropos, and many others. The core components of the AirWave Wireless Management Suite are:
- AirWave Management Platform (AMP) wireless network management software
- VisualRF location and RF mapping software module
- RAPIDS rogue access point detection software module
- AirWave Master Console and Failover Servers for scalability and high-availability
