Aruba Wireless LAN Management Solution

 AirWave Wireless Management Suite^™ drives operational efficiency and intelligent planning for teams managing RF (including multivendor installations,) networks. Whether users connect through multivendor wireless access points, remote APs, wired ports, or even VPN tunnels, AirWave extends your management capabilities so you can automate tasks, delegate troubleshooting responsibilities, detect rogue APs, and deliver historical data for operational planning or compliance purposes.

 AirWave gives you a single, accurate picture of everything that affects service quality for your users ¯ from wired infrastructure, to the RF environment, to individual mobile devices. It also integrating easily with existing IT service management tools for more efficient problem resolution.

 A Better User Experience

AirWave has been designed from the ground up as an operations solution for the whole IT organization, from the service desk, to the NOC, to network engineer.

• Role-based access for everyone in the IT organization: viewing rights and administrative privileges tailored to job responsibilities

• Summary diagnostics pages give service desk staff and network engineers an at-a-glance view to quickly identify potential causes of reported problems

• Customizable charts let IT compare information such as signal quality or bandwidth for up to one year, to look for patterns and trends

• Visibility into wired infrastructure that’s connected to wireless controllers/ access points (APs). Looking at upstream relationships among APs, controllers, and switches helps you quickly get to the root cause of problems affecting wireless users

• Real-time RF monitoring data and visualization

Save Time With Automated Configuration Management 

• Centralized device discovery and management of more than 100,000 APs

• Configuration policies defined using a web-based interface or by pulling a “known good” configuration from an existing device and applying it uniformly across the network (using Aruba’s “Master Controller” mechanism)

• Efficient remote software distribution to eliminate time-consuming and error-prone manual software updates

• Scheduled firmware updates make it more efficient to implement software updates by enabling them to be scheduled for predetermined times and to be completed without manual reboots

• Configuration archive stores a snapshot of the entire configuration of an Aruba controller for viewing and rollback

PCI Compliance With AirWave

Any organization that handles credit card data must be ready at all times to undergo a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) audit to show they are complying with best practices for ensuring cardholder security.

Version 1.2 of PCI-DSS was recently released, and contains new and upgraded requirements related to wireless networks. With wireless technologies reaching virtually every retail facility ­ from stores to distribution centers and headquarters ­ it is especially important for IT to demonstrate that the wireless infrastructure is secure.

AirWave Wireless Management Suite (AWMS) software is an essential tool for achieving ­ and demonstrating ­ compliance with critical PCI requirements.

Contact Ensign  today to discover how to deploy an advanced Wireless LAN management solution.