Manageability and Security for the Global Enterprise

While the benefits of increased mobility are readily apparent to end users, network administrators for Fortune 1000 companies face a unique set of challenges when installing and managing wireless networks. The AMP Management Platform has been designed specifically to meet their needs, delivering the manageability and security required for mission-critical corporate networks.

• Centralized management of remote campuses and offices. Via AMP's web-based interface, network administrators can fully manage a corporation's wireless infrastructure anywhere in the world, across a WAN or LAN. Wi-Fi devices may be managed with AMP by local IT personnel or centrally administered from the corporate network operations center.

• Multi-vendor hardware support. As wireless networks grow and spread from one office to another, a company typically purchases Wi-Fi hardware from multiple vendors. This may be done intentionally to avoid single-vendor dependence or unintentionally due to decentralized purchasing patterns, mergers and acquisitions, and more. AMP provides a single, common interface that lets administrators seamlessly manage heterogeneous devices from multiple vendors.

• Automated rogue access point detection. With the appeal of mobility and declining hardware prices, employees often purchase their own wireless access points and connect them to the corporate network behind the firewall, without their IT department's knowledge or permission. AMP's RAPIDS rogue access point detection module automatically detects unauthorized access points on the network, allowing IT to locate and eliminate them before outsiders can use them to gain access to the secure corporate network.

• Network usage and performance reports. Fortune 1000 network operations staffs are typically responsible for measuring and meeting uptime and Quality of Service metrics for the organization's mission-critical networks. AMP includes an integrated reporting package that helps administrators identify potential trouble spots on the wireless network and efficiently plan for network expansion as usage increases.

• True scalability for global networks. AMP's flexible distributed software architecture makes it easy to expand a wireless network from a few dozen access points in a single office to thousands of APs in a global network.