The Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network solution is a solution for
network managers who need to deploy, operate and manage hundreds to thousands
of access points using their existing Cisco infrastructure. It also extends to
the WLAN the same level of security, scalability, and reliability that
customers have come to expect in their wired LAN. The components of the
Structured Wireless Aware Network are shown in Figure
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CiscoWorks WLSE provides centralized, turnkey management for the Cisco
Wireless LAN infrastructure. The CiscoWorks WLSE unifies the other components
in the solution and actively employs them to provide continual
"Air/RF" monitoring, network security, and optimization. The
CiscoWorks WLSE also assists network managers by automating and simplifying
mass configuration deployment, fault monitoring and alerting, and conversion of
the VxWorks OS running on Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Access Points to Cisco IOS
Software
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The introduction of the Cisco Structured Wireless Aware Network Solution
introduces a new version of the CiscoWorks WLSE appliance platform (CiscoWorks
WLSE 1130) that has the capacity to manage 2500 Access Points from a single
CiscoWorks WLSE appliance.