Definition of a Mobile Strategy is a top Enterprise IT Issue

• Although CIOs are trying to control mobile access, many existing and new applications are converting to wireless. These include email, CRM and sales productivity, GSM/WiFi, voice, video, RFID, monitoring, surveillance, location, and others
• At the same time mobile devices are quickly evolving-cell phones, laptops, PDAs, VoWLAN phones, and dual mode phones. There is a growing expectation that the new devices will be able to transparently roam across networks.
• New requirements are emerging to control and manage these applications

The Extreme Networks Advantage

• Complete suite of wireless LAN products providing highly scalable, secure voice grade performance.
• Flexible deployment models enable economical and easy-to-manage configurations, whether you need to deploy WLAN in a large facility, a medium sized building, or multiple branch offices across the world.
• Extreme has the advantage of being able to design, deploy, and manage an integrated wired and wireless solution–using its complete line of award-winning switches-with comprehensive security, Quality of Service (QoS), and management. This provides simplicity throughout all phases of your wireless solution lifecycle, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership.

Summit^® WM200 and Summit WM2000 are the next generation platforms for advanced wireless services, including support for IEEE 802.11n access points. The modular architecture of Summit WM200 and Summit WM2000 controllers offer the scalability and flexibility required in the fast changing wireless environment. Summit WM 200 and Summit WM2000 are modular in design with field replaceable service blades. The controller includes redundant and hot swappable power and fan modules. Summit WM200 and Summit WM2000 offer single-system scalability up to 200 access points for coverage of large enterprise campuses down to small branch offices. In addition, an organization can install multiple Summit WM systems to support deployments of thousands of access points. Summit WM200 and Summit WM2000 controllers enable unified services and policies across wired and wireless networks, which reduce network complexity and simplify management.

Summit WM100 and Summit WM1000 controllers deliver a high-performance wireless LAN solution that is easy to use and is secure. In today's enterprise environments, dedicated resources are rarely available to build and operate the wireless network. By focusing on ease of installation and management, the Summit wireless mobility solution from Extreme Networks' helps IT organizations simplify the task of mobilizing their users without sacrificing security or performance.

Altitude 350-2 is a dual-radio access point (AP) that supports simultaneous operation of 802.11a and 802.11g/b wireless networks. Used with Summit WM series controllers for centralized management and control, Altitude 350-2 is ideal for large-scale wireless deployments where high-performance voice-grade cross-subnet roaming and availability are required.

Features

• Ease of configuration and operation with Plug and Play installation, access domains for multiple access types and dynamic Radio Frequency (RF) management
• Voice-grade performance with high availability to meet voice service expectations, end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) and high-speed, cross-subnet roaming
• Comprehensive security with a rich set of authentication and access control options, directory-integrated link security for simplifying user access management and detection of unauthorized Access Points (APs) and wireless clients

Architecture

To better support growing amounts of wireless users, emerging applications and convergence in the Enterprise environment, Extreme Networks offers a secure and standards-based wireless LAN architecture that benefits from centralized management, the distributed processing of critical functions such as dynamic RF management and encryption, along with capabilities that make Voice over Wireless high performing while simple to install and support.

Wired-Wireless Integration

Extreme Networks offers its customers the choice of an integrated WLAN solution or an overlay solution for maximum flexibility. In either case, you can configure security, QoS, and other parameters to optimally work together across the network. In addition, Extreme Networks provides a common view into the network with its EPICenter^® management platform.

Security

Extreme Networks offers comprehensive, end-to-end security capabilities that ensure worry-free wireless communications, operation, and management against network threats.

• Wired network and corporate infrastructure capabilities throughout its wired edge and core switches
• Wireless LAN with options for browser-based login, MAC address verification, or 802.1x Enterprise AAA identity management. Privacy options range from unencrypted communication, shared key, to WPA-v1, and WPA-v2
• Best-in-class wireless IDS/IPS solution through partnership with AirTight Networks

Guest Access

Extreme offers several types of authentication that can be used for guest access, such as AAA (802.1x), EAP and PEAP. A typical guest access deployment uses a browser-based logon screen ("Captive Portal") and filtering rule policies. Filters can be applied to limit the guest access rights and/or to put the guest into a "walled garden", allowing them access only to the outside Internet and corporate homepage.

Performance and Scalability

Extreme Networks WLAN solutions offer large scale, voice-grade performance. This is possible with a scalable architecture, high-Speed Cross-Subnet roaming, end-to-End QoS, and dynamic RF Management.

Additionally, Extreme Networks uniquely offers Branch Office mode capabilities. A controller can be centrally located in the HQ while access points can be economically placed in remote locations. User traffic can be tunneled back to the controller but for better performance and resiliency from WAN failures, Branch Office mode allows traffic to be bridged and tagged to a local VLAN.

Availability

All aspects of Extreme Networks WLAN solutions provide enterprise-grade high availability. This includes at the radio level, with controller availability and against network link failure. Extreme Networks also offers a number of wired high availability features—such as EAPS—to provide a more resilient network.

VoIP Support

Extreme Networks solutions have been Tolly Group proven to provide fast roaming across multiple controllers. Extreme Networks partners, such as Avaya, SpectraLink, and Vocera have tested and proven that their voice solutions perform transparently as voice users roam from AP to AP.

Design and Deployment

Extreme Networks offers both product and service capabilities that facilitate the design and deployment of WLAN systems. From a product perspective, WLAN solutions from Extreme Networks^® can be deployed anywhere within an IP network, regardless of existing topology.

For pre-installation site surveys, Extreme Networks offers several options. For customers who wish to do their own site surveys, Extreme Networks offers its RF Manager planning tool. Most customers, however, choose to have a site survey done for them. Extreme Professional Services (EPS) provides wireless site surveys that are combined with customized wired infrastructure designs and services for a complete infrastructure service offering. EPS has personnel with many years of enterprise network experience as well as Ph.D-level of RF expertise.

Monitoring and Management

Extreme Networks provides a graphical, web-based configuration, monitoring, and management interface. Support is provided for SSL, SNMP v2, FTP, RADIUS accounting, statistics, syslog, and Secure Shell (SSH). For monitoring multiple WLAN and/or wired switches, Extreme offers its EPICenter management platform. Support for SNMP v2 MIBs, enables management, monitoring, and reporting from third party platforms such as HP OpenView. Finally, Extreme Networks partnership with AirTight Networks enables wireless monitoring, detection, classification, and prevention of threats. In addition to wireless IPS capabilities.