Enterprise Management
Wavelink

Wavelink is a developer of wireless solutions to deploy and manage enterprise wireless applications and infrastructure. Enterprises with multiple sites do not want to put a network expert at each site. Centralized management eliminates the need to do this. Detecting and resolving WLAN issues automatically increases overall performance and efficiency. It is difficult to maintain firmware consistency while expanding the WLAN. If deploying a WLAN over time, the firmware version of the APs is likely to change.

Mobile Manager is the Wavelink product used to deploy and manage WLAN APs. Wavelink Mobile Manager can be used to set the firmware of the enterprise WLAN and monitor for consistency. WLANs can include APs and mobile clients from different vendors . Wavelink can manage a multiple-vendor WLAN network.

In a Cisco environment, Mobile Manager takes advantage of the CDP broadcast that Cisco Aironet APs transmit as soon as they come online. After picking up this broadcast, a Mobile Manager agent will autodiscover the AP and assign predefined configurations. Many Cisco Aironet APs are installed in Cisco switched environments. Mobile Manager is designed to detect APs and Cisco switches and routers to create a topographical map of the entire network. This map includes switches, routers, APs and a table of the MAC addresses of the mobile clients attached to each AP.

Mobile Manager is a software solution. The Mobile Manager console and agent will run on any Windows machine. Profiles contain AP configuration parameters and can be automatically assigned as new APs are brought online. Mobile Manager profiles will ease the deployment of new APs. Mobile Manager has four components :

  • Management Console
  • Alert Service
  • Remote Agent
  • Remote Services

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