HiPath Wireless Portfolio

Delivering On The Promise Of Enterprise Mobility

Workforces are quickly becoming more mobile-particularly between corporate sites. Workers want to be able to communicate with equal effectiveness no matter where they are: in meetings, shared workspaces, in the board-room or on the factory floor. Enterprise mobility means more than just eliminating network cabling and having Internet and email access away from the desktop. True enterprise mobility helps to enable the innovative optimization of business processes and IT costs.

HiPath Wireless-More than a mobile workplace

HiPath® Wireless sets a high standard for a new generation of enterprise mobility. Wireless LANs have become a high priority for enterprise IT departments and a strategic technology for all kinds of businesses. Satisfying user expectations in terms of mobile functionality, performance and reliability is not enough. Today's wireless solutions must quickly provide a significant return on investment and a long term potential to improve business processes and 2 | HiPath Wireless © 2006. Siemens Communications, Inc. applications through mobile applications. HiPath Wireless allows an organization to boost its profitability and enhance its competitiveness.

HiPath Wireless solutions provide a solid foundation for today's enterprise wireless requirements: secure, flexible and manageable. HiPath Wireless solutions also take it a step further by providing for the integration of a variety of innovative voice and multimedia services in one wireless network. HiPath Wireless provides the voice and data features as well as overall quality and reliability needed to untether people from their desktops.

Because HiPath Wireless removes the limits that restrict the ability to communicate based on location, a new way of working becomes possible. Communication independent of location opens up new possibilities allowing us all to be more productive and effective.

Voice and data through a single mobility infrastructure

Most WLANs today are meant to extend data networks to mobile users. This is valuable in itself, but what will really transform the way people work is the capability to support both voice and data through a single mobility infrastructure.

This convergence of voice and data is the basis for a seamless and straightforward shift of desktop or location specific applications and processes into mobile environments. Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) severs the last link users have with their desktops, enabling them to access all communication media and applications through a wireless LAN.

With VoWLAN, location becomes a matter of preference, not necessity. People can always be where they most need to be to do their jobs better, and they can always be reachable by others to help ensure the organization is more responsive and provides better service.

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HiPath Wireless - A complete enterprise mobility solution

HiPath Wireless Controller (C10, C100, C1000)
The HiPath Wireless Controller provides centralized control and management for the HiPath Wireless solution, and can be located at any point in the existing enterprise network. It automatically administers security, user services and roaming on the wireless network, and ties all access points into centrally administered IP sub-networks. Plug-and-play functionality automatically recognizes and configures new Access Points. The Controller's HiPath Wireless Convergence Software is designed for easy software-based feature updates.

HiPath Wireless Access Point (2610, 2620)
The dual radio Access Points produce uniform signal coverage for all areas of an enterprise campus where wireless services are required. Through automated coordination, Access Points can intelligently balance their data loads across access points, and provide encryption to secure wireless traffic. Power over Ethernet simplifies deployment even further, since external power supplies are not required.

HiPath Services - All from a single source

With HiPath Services, Siemens offers a broad portfolio of solutions and services to help enhance the reliability, availability and security of networks and applications-from consulting and integration to services for operation and outsourcing. This way, all your business processes can work smoothly and effortlessly.

HiPath Professional Services with solution related consulting, system integration and implementation of complex adaptations ensure optimal integration of applications and business processes.

HiPath Lifecycle Services offer continuous support from implementation to ongoing operation to ensure the availability and security of a communication network with all applications.

HiPath Managed Services can be outtasked to undertake complete communications management-for enhanced availability of the communication infrastructure and lower overall costs.

optiPoint Devices - Always the Right Connection

optiPoint devices, for every purpose and user category, are an optimal addition to a HiPath Wireless communication solution. Siemens offers a variety of wireless clients compatible with the HiPath Wireless environment, combining enterprise grade telephony features with roaming mobility.

optiPoint WL2 professional The optiPoint WL2 professional wireless handset works with existing WLAN infrastructures and offers CorNet® features, optimized wireless operation, and menu-controlled functions.

optiClient 130 Soft client telephony on a notebook PC offers many advantages-there is no telephone to take up desk space, and the user can work anywhere with the same familiar soft phone interface on a PC or notebook computer.

optiPocket optiPocketT offers all the voice functionality of the optiClient® for the PDA. It is the ideal application for mobility solutions, and grants access to all HiPath features through HiPath ComScendo®.

With HiPath Wireless users can roam freely while maintaining security, connectivity and a consistently high level of voice quality.

HiPath Wireless delivers a solid foundation for today's enterprise wireless needs and for the integration of a variety of innovative voice and multimedia possibilities in one wireless network. HiPath Wireless provides the voice and data features, quality and reliability needed to completely untether people from their desktops. Because HiPath Wireless removes the limits that restrict the ability to communicate based on location, a new way of working becomes possible. Communication independent of location opens up new possibilities to make how we work more productive and effective.

 

HiPath Wireless Access Point

The HiPath Wireless Access Point is an enterprise-class dual radio 802.11a/b/g access point that provides coverage anywhere that wireless LAN (WLAN) service is required.

The Access Point's Plug 'n Play technology dramatically simplifies deployment of the world's first large-scale routed WLAN solution: simply plug it into the network and it automatically discovers the appropriate HiPath Wireless Controller and is configured - even if it is on a different subnet or physical location (e.g., a branch office).

All Access Points and Controllers in the WLAN are virtually interconnected, enabling centralized management and seamless overlay into any existing IP-based network infrastructure. Transparent integration with existing VPN implementations also provides an added layer of security.

Siemens HiPath Wireless Access Point

Unique "Fit AP" design for optimized performance, security and management The HiPath Wireless Access Point is an intelligent radio device that works with the Hi- Path Wireless Controller using what Siemens calls a "Fit AP" model. Unlike "Fat APs" which require all functions to be performed at the access point (adding cost by needlessly duplicating processing and functionality) instead of centralizing at the controller, and unlike "Thin APs" which delegate almost all functionality to the controller (impacting performance by creating processing bottlenecks and adding unnecessary traffic and network transactions), Fit AP solutions deliver exceptional performance while remaining easy to manage.

HiPath Wireless Access Point Supported Features

 

 

HiPath Wireless Controller

The HiPath Wireless Controller is a high-performance platform that provides centralized intelligence for the HiPath Wireless enterprise solution, the world's first truly scalable routed wireless LAN (WLAN) solution.

The Controller is a full-functioning router that aggregates and coordinates all access points into what appears to the rest of the network as individual, centrally managed, IP subnets. As a result, network management is greatly simplified, eliminating the need to ever physically visit the remote access points. Further, the Controller operates at wireline speed for maximum throughput.

Wireless 'overlay' deployment means minimal disruption to existing networks

Because of its flexible Layer 3 'overlay' architecture, the Controller can be located anywhere on your network. Each Controller can coordinate as many as 200 HiPath Wireless Access Points or 802.11-based Third Party APs, including those located in remote office locations.

The HiPath Wireless Convergence Software architecture offers convenient feature updates for serviceability and investment protection.

For management efficiency, centralized auto configuration and software loading for Access Points is provided, along with statistics reporting, logging and tracing through the HiPath Wireless Convergence Software. Administrative access via the Web allows user policy, security and access control, both locally or centralized.

Fast, secure roaming across Access Points for 'always on' voice and data mobility

Fast, secure and seamless roaming is provided as users and devices move throughout the radio coverage range of each Access Point in your network. This roaming capability means no need to reconnect or re-authenticate mobile applications, and no more dropped Voiceover- WLAN calls as users move about the enterprise. Seamless roaming greatly improves productivity by providing user true mobility across the enterprise - the HiPath Wireless Controller manages each hand-off transparent to users.

Virtualization allows user segmentation with policy management and service definitions

Through the use of Siemens' unique Virtual Network Services (VNS), specific users and mobile devices can be grouped by policy class to provide for levels of service, access permissions and device authorization.

A VNS segment is like a virtual WLAN in itself and multiple VNS segments can run on each AP, creating a much more flexible and powerful solution than fixed VLANs. Variables such as time of day and the physical location of a given user can even be used to define specific services. The dynamic nature of WLANs themselves is thus optimized in venues such as convention centers, sports arenas, hotels, campus settings, hospitals, and multi-tier environments among others.

VNS provides the provisioning, monitoring, and control that allows a WLAN infrastructure to meet the needs of diverse constituencies with appropriate efficiency, performance, and security. Up to 50 virtual WLANs (via VNS) can be created and managed, each with its own user policies and services. Policies can be managed by packet filtering, individual user or group.

HiPath Wireless Controller Supported Features

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