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The Trapeze Mobility System - Delivering Wireless LAN Services
The question isn't if or when wireless will reach the enterprise. Wireless is here. The issue is who will control it.
Users want to access applications from anywhere - from headquarters, campuses, multi-tenant facilities, and branch offices. And IT managers want to implement secure, scalable enterprise-class wireless LANs (WLANs) to meet this need. But they're understandably skittish about planning, deployment, and management, as well as treating wireless as an add-on to the wired network - freeing users but saddling IT with two infrastructures to administer.
The Trapeze Networks™ Mobility System™ delivers best-in-class secure mobility, the broadest range of the WLAN services, and the lowest total cost of ownership. The Mobility System consists of the Mobility Exchange™ a new class of switch that lets users' identities roam with them; the Mobility Point™ an access point that optimizes WLAN services; Mobility System Software™ which integrates wired with wireless; and RingMaster™ a suite of planning and management tools.
Trapeze Networks delivers a fully integrated wireless LAN Mobility System that meets the tough demands of today's enterprises.
Simple Planning and management
For starters, Trapeze's comprehensive RingMaster tool suite takes the pain out of planning and managing wireless LANs by automating and simplifying deployment and optimization. This reduces the total cost of ownership as well as operating costs.
Trapeze also tackles and solves the biggest challenge of wireless - secure mobility. With our innovative Identity-Based Networking, users logon to the network once and roam effortlessly, while their access privileges and policies follow them from wired to wireless.
Identity-Based Networking also detects rogue access points, ad hoc user groups and other unauthorized users. What's more, we support the strongest client authentication and encryption available today, from 802.1X to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
Finally, the Trapeze Mobility System integrates seamlessly with wired infrastructures, requiring no changes to network engineering or client modifications. For the first time, businesses can build one network that serves all users equally well.
Why Trapeze?
The Trapeze Networks™ Mobility System™ includes the Mobility Exchange™(MX™), Mobility Point™(MP™), Mobility System Software™(MSS™) and the RingMaster™ tool suite. Used by some of world's largest businesses, the system delivers best-in-class secure mobility, the broadest range of WLAN services, and the lowest total cost of ownership.
By providing secure user mobility, automated wireless planning and management, and easy integration with wired networks, the Trapeze Mobility System introduces new efficiencies and accelerates business response time. Trapeze lets businesses extend productivity-enhancing applications and revenue-generating services to where the work gets done.
Trapeze ensures secure mobility with Identity-Based Networking, which relies on a user's identity, vs. a port or device, to deliver services. With the Trapeze Mobility System, there's no need to modify clients, protocols or the wired infrastructure to do wireless. The original access controls, policies and privileges assigned to users stay with them from wired to wireless. Best of all, Trapeze lets users roam - securely - anywhere you choose to allow them, over any topology.
When it comes to applications and services, Trapeze has it covered. We support high-quality voice-over-wireless IP so doctors and nurses can communicate using 802.11 phones, PDAs, tablet PCs, laptops, handhelds and other authorized devices. Hotel guests can pay a fee to go wireless anywhere on the property. Landlords can attract tenants by offering wireless services that keep each occupant's traffic secure and separate. Airports keep the traffic moving, and entertainment venues handle crowds using wireless ticket kiosks. Distribution logistics - from the initial product order to customer delivery - flow faster and much more efficiently.
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The financial benefits of the Trapeze Mobility System derive from both the architecture, which is easy to deploy and requires no infrastructure changes, and RingMaster, which simplifies planning but more importantly makes the running of the WLAN highly efficient. Our customers rely on RingMaster to turn three-day projects into simple tasks taking just moments. It's these operational savings that enable Trapeze to provide an outstanding return on investment - our customers have reduced their operating expenses by as much as 70%, cut their total cost of ownership by 50% compared to WLANs from other vendors, and have recouped their Trapeze investment in less than a year.
Best-in-Class Secure Mobility
While all WLAN systems purport to bring you mobility, only the Trapeze Mobility System delivers the architecture needed to allow users to roam securely anywhere in the network and over any topology - in headquarters buildings, campuses, multi-tenant facilities, and branch offices. The system does not require any changes to your current infrastructure. It simply makes your existing network, with all of its structure and services, available wirelessly.
With Trapeze, you just add the wireless equipment, link into your existing wired network using standard interoperable technology, and the system takes care of automatically providing roaming users with access to all their existing network resources - and only those appropriate resources. The Trapeze system provides your users with full mobility without forcing you to distribute VLANs throughout your network, add a new VLAN, or change your client infrastructure.
The system applies the stringent security needed to ensure that only authorized people can access your network's resources. Using strong authentication and encryption, the Trapeze Mobility System protects against misuse and eavesdroppers and isolates traffic between multiple private groups.
For authentication, Trapeze supports IEEE 802.1X and its Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) variations. For standards-based encryption, Trapeze supports everything from Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) 2.0 based on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) - the strongest encryption available today - as well as WPA 1.0 based on the IEEE 802.11i Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) and dynamic WEP with rotating broadcast/multicast keys.
RingMaster
RingMaster is a full-featured tool suite that enables IT managers to perform pre- and post-deployment planning, configuration, verification, management, and optimization of the WLAN infrastructure. IT first imports standard building plan files in AutoCAD™ DXF™ AutoCAD DWG, JPEG, or GIF formats to design the WLAN offline.
Wizard-based Virtual Site Survey™ and capacity planning tools simplify device configurations. RingMaster's 3D awareness lets IT plan an entire building vs. just a floor, and the built-in library of measured attenuation factors ensures that RingMaster understands how RF will flow through the particular environment.
RingMaster automatically determines the number of MPs that need to be installed in any part of a building and can take into consideration the number of users and the level of traffic they're likely to generate. It also allows the IT manager to easily adjust WLAN capacity with minimal disruption. Once the plan is done, IT can print a work order that shows where to install Trapeze MXs and MPs. When that's done, IT can deploy hundreds of MP configurations in a single step.
For all your wireless requirements, contact us now for free advice and guidance.
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