Specifications

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise Communication Solutions
April 2014 Offer
The OmniVista 3600 Air Manager supports wireless equipment from seventeen different vendors,
including Alcatel-Lucent, Aruba Networks, Cisco, Symbol/Motorola, Trapeze, Meru, HP ProCurve,
Nortel, Proxim, Foundry, Colubris, Tropos, 3com, Enterasys, Juniper, Lancom, and Avaya.
The Alcatel-Lucent WLAN solutions support up to 512 access points per Supervisor Card 3 and up to
2048 access points on a single WLAN switch chassis (with 4 supervisor card 3), centralized encryption
for 802.11i, advanced intrusion detection and protection capabilities, and offer user-aware fully
operational firewalls.
Key benefits
Reduced Wireless Operating Costs
 Lowers user support costs by giving the Help Desk effective diagnostic tools
 Helps IT extend the useful life of existing WLAN infrastructure
 Automates routine tasks like configuration, software updates, and compliance audits
 Provides reports to facilitate capacity planning and efficient technology upgrades
Improved Performance and Reliability
 Automates performance diagnostics and implements corrective actions
 Provides a complete reporting package that helps IT identify bottlenecks and problem areas
 Eliminates configuration errors that impact performance
 Enables rapid, remote problem resolution
Improved Network Security
 Enforces consistent configuration and security policies across the entire organization
 Detects unauthorized rogue access points
 Automates configuration compliance audits
 Provides role-based administrative access and complete audit logs • Allows IT to see every
user on the network
To complete the VoWLAN offer, Alcatel-Lucent provides a line of professional WLAN handsets fully
compatible with the OmniPCX Enterprise services.
Controlling access points
From a system capacity perspective, a single WLAN controller can connect tens of thousands of
simultaneous users to thousands of access points. Because the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess 6000 is
modular, it can easily scale to accommodate increased capacity. Simply adding a new Supervisor-III
module can scale a platform to handle an additional 512 Access Points. The 6000 controller can