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