Multicast With Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs) And Lightweight Access Points (LAPs) Configuration Example
White Papers Before Cisco Unified Wireless Network Software Release 3.2, when IP multicast was enabled, the controller delivered multicast packets to wireless LAN (WLAN) clients by making copies of the multicast packets, then forwarded the packets through a...
[January 11, 2008, 23:00]
Colubris Touts Next-gen Wi-Fi Access Point
News When moving to 802.11n you're going to multiply the performance of your access points by a factor of four or as many as eight times, so a customer using one of those centralised switches is going to have to… either remove and replace the central...
[May 14, 2007, 11:46]
Deployment Guidelines For WLANs
News All of these solutions should be considered proprietary, and will only become an issue if mixed controller vendors are involved. Two general choices are possible: One option moves the security back to a local controller with full authentication...
[May 19, 2004, 12:30]
Ruckus Mixes Meshing With 802.11n
News The company's SmartMesh technology was unveiled on Monday, along with a "smart wireless LAN (WLAN) controller" called the ZoneDirector 3000 and a remote management tool called FlexMaster. The company, which has traditionally serviced mid-sized...
[April 21, 2008, 17:42]
Cisco Patches Wi-Fi Vulnerabilities
News In a second advisory, Cisco alerted IT managers to multiple vulnerabilities in its Wireless LAN Controller (WLC), routers and access points that could leave systems open to denial of service (DoS) attacks, information disclosure, access control...
[April 13, 2007, 14:37]
Managing And Monitoring A Primary Wireless Network
White Papers Our design includes a controller-based architecture, centralized management, template-based configuration, and a redundant, self-healing network. Intel IT designed a highly automated approach to managing an enterprise primary wireless LAN, with a...
[September 6, 2007, 0:00]
University Moves To New Wireless Network For Improved Student Life
White Papers Cisco Access Points and Wireless LAN Controller with Support for 802.11n provide predictable, high-speed access for multimedia applications. The university wanted to use the wireless network to expand educational applications in the classroom...
[December 2, 2007, 23:00]
Mount Saint: Joseph High School Success Story
White Papers The school chose an end-to-end 3Com solution which includes 3Com Switch 7700; 3Com SuperStack 3 Switch 4400; 3Com Wireless LAN Managed Access Point 2750; 3Com Wireless LAN Controller WX4400; and 3Com Network Supervisor.
[December 3, 2007, 23:00]
Product Specs: ProCurve Access Control Server 745wl
White Papers The ProCurve Access Control Server 745wl, working in conjunction with either the ProCurve Switch xl Access Controller Module or ProCurve Access Controller 720wl, provides a specialized, highly secure wireless access solution for demanding client...
[October 8, 2007, 0:00]
Cisco Targets Tiny Businesses
News Although the UC500 only provides a single wireless access point, another key product in the suite is the Mobility Express wireless LAN controller, which provides 12 access points. According to Ian Waters, Cisco's unified communications marketing...
[April 3, 2007, 16:46]
Cisco Secures Switches
News NAC software on the Cisco wireless platforms, including Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless LAN Services Module (WLSM), Cisco Aironet access points, Cisco Aironet lightweight access points, and Cisco Wireless LAN Controller platforms are available...
[October 18, 2005, 12:50]
Wireless Deployment At Enterprise Level
News The move toward centralisation has resulted in a corresponding move away from more "intelligent" WAPs and towards so-called "light" access points (also called Wireless Termination Points or WTPs) that are controlled by a centralised controller in...
[September 14, 2006, 15:40]
AMD Seeks Wi-Fi Alchemy With New Chips
News The Am1772 is a two-chip product incorporating a baseband and a medium access controller (MAC). The AMD Alchemy Solutions Am1772 Wireless LAN chipset and mini-PCI card reference design kit will be the first products to carry the AMD Alchemy brand...
[November 4, 2002, 15:34]
Cisco Flaw Threatens Wi-Fi Networks
News Cisco has a software update available for the WLAN controller to fix the vulnerability. A security bug in Cisco's wireless LAN controllers could enable an attacker to send malicious traffic to a secured Wi-Fi network.
[November 3, 2005, 11:05]
HP Targets Cisco Dominance With Core Switch
News ProCurve on Monday also launched the Wireless Edge Services zl Module, which is a wireless LAN controller. Controllers manage a wireless network in terms of maintaining security policies and governing RF propagation.
[September 10, 2007, 14:35]
HP Takes ProCurve To Branch Offices
News HP also plans to launch an Access Controller Module in April to fit into the 5300 chassis switch. This update of the standalone 720 Access Controller increases the number of access points that hang from one chassis to "hundreds", said Wetherall.
[February 22, 2005, 17:20]
Birmingham Students Get Wi-Fi Freedom Of Speech
Articles Virtual-cell technology gets around both of these issues by allowing all the access points to run on one channel; the access points don't interfere with each other because they are managed by a central mobility controller which gives times slots...
[April 14, 2008, 15:34]
