Jogja Ponsel

Siemens Monday is announcing a management application for its HiPath Wireless line of WLAN gear, and a new version of its systems software with expanded support for voice traffic.

Also new is a group of APIs that let third-party software vendors plug their applications into a HiPath WLAN deployment. All three changes are aimed at improving HiPath capabilities in enterprise wireless LANs, where customers look to run both data and voice applications.

Siemens’ WLAN line includes 802.11a/b/g access points and controllers, based on technology acquired from the former Chantry Networks.

The new HiPath Wireless Manager is intended to be the core of an expanding set of management functions, added as modules. One module, announced in April, is the HiGuard wireless intrusion detection/prevention application, based on code originally licensed from AirTight.

Wireless Manager is a Windows Server 2003 application. For the first time, HiPath net administrators can see an overview of the entire net, now encompassing hundreds of controllers, and thousands of access points, according to Luc Roy, vice president of product planning for Siemens Communications, Boca Raton, Fla.

This kind of capability has been a standard feature for rival vendors such as Aruba Wireless Networks and Trapeze Networks.

Previously, administrators could only log into each controller individually, via the onboard Web interface. The new application lets administrators group controllers, such as all the controllers in the Boca Raton headquarters, and configure and manage them, and the attached access points and their users, as a unit.

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