Datasheet

3COM
®
WIRELESS SWITCH MANAGER DATA SHEET
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Description
CUSTOMIZED, AUTOMATED SITE PLANNING TOOLS
Eliminates time-consuming site surveys and Based on your specific building layout, optimal number and placement of MAPs is determined to optimize
MAP layout guesswork performance of network.
Customized to Your Buildings Requirements Import your building’s blueprints from popular 3D graphics programs.
Planning Tool Factors In Effect of Common Apply attenuation effects of common building structures, based on included extensive library of standard
RF Attenuators building obstacles. Built-in formulas automatically determine optimal MAP location and number, eliminating
countless hours of trial and error.
Automatic Coverage and Capacity Planning Take the guess work out of coverage and capacity planning before deployment with integrated algorithms
designed to optimize the performance of applications and hardware.
Determine Equipment Placement Effects Test alternate scenarios virtually without manually moving equipment
Provides accurate placement diagrams Convert design plans into accurate site plans and work orders, greatly reducing the chance for installation errors.
EASY CONFIGURATION, VERIFICATION, AND DEPLOYMENT
Automatically Create MAP Configuration Files Convert design plans into configuration data for MAPs, including individual RF power-levels and radio
channel assignments
One-Step System Wide Configuration Centralized deployment reduces configuration time and errors. One click sends all selected individual
configurations to each MAP. Eliminating the need to manually configure each MAP.
Centralized Configuration Management Supports configuration version archives for accurate consolidated historical information. Provides for easy
centralized upgrades that can be deployed with a click, with the ability to verify and synchronize configurations
as needed. Archives allow for easy network rollbacks.
Location Independence Wireless controller and MAPs operate as an integrated infrastructure even in distributed remote networks,
making it easy to expand or modify the WLAN as needed. Overlays any Layer 2 or Layer 3 wired topology,
with no hardware or backbone changes for cost-effective installation.
Flexible, Scalable Architecture Support As needed, easily add additional MAPs, Controllers or Switches utilizing the distributed configuration mechanism.
COMPREHENSIVE CONTROL OF RF ENVIRONMENT
Continuous, Scheduled or On-Demand RF Sweeps Run sweeps as needed to detect and locate rogue APs, users, and ad-hoc networks. Verify your current RF
coverage and topology with integrated mapping tools. Adjust individual MAP gain as needed.
Locate Users on Floor Plan Locate users, track roaming history and control individuals bandwidth utilization as needed.
STRONG, EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT
Extensive System Level Statistics Provides Ethernet statistics, including errors and traffic, down to packet size, Radio statistics, and User session
statistics, preserved as users roam across multiple MAPs, all with easy viewing tables and graphs for quick
identification of trends.
Fault and Event Viewer for Controllers, Switches, Powerful and flexible filtering to drill down on specific events, plus event correlation evaluations.
and MAPs
Automatic Alerts for Configuration Changes Wizard interface prompts for resolution of conflicting changes.
Secure Location-Independent Management Enables IT staff to securely manage the WLAN from anywhere. Integrates with enterprise management tools
such as 3Com Network Director and HP OpenView. Secure management through Web browser via SSL or
HTTPS, or command line interface via SSHv2, or Telnet.
Centralized Policy Management Create user or group policies that allow or deny network access in different parts of the network for secure
seamless roaming. Helps ensure that only authorized users access the network.
Features
Provides Enhanced Security and
Seamless Mobility
Building on 3Com’s strong wireless security
features of AES, TKIP and WEP encryption
combined with WPA and 802.1X authentica-
tion, 3Com Wireless Switch Manager can
fully manage, secure and track on a per-user
or per-group basis to all services on the wire-
less network. With this Identity-Based
Networking capability, IT managers can have
confidence in the enhanced security of their
wireless LAN networks through improved
user group authenticated access control,
consistently enforced roaming policies and
monitored bandwidth usage. The result is
seamless user mobility and freedom to
connect securely and roam.
Collected user and network statistics
provides increased ability to evaluate a
mobile community by monitoring who’s
connected, where they are, where they’ve
been and what services they’ve used; The
Wireless LAN Switch Manager helps ensure
the wireless LAN stays secure.
Key Benefits, continued