June 17, 2008
Aruba WLAN at Microsoft Exceeds 11,000 Access Points
"'The combination of the AirWave platform with their current offering, and what they're trying to do to integrate the two of them together, is a really good start towards providing what we would like to see in network management."
June 18, 2008
Potential Fallout of Wireless Acquisitions
"'And it's not yet clear how the acquisition will affect Trapeze's recently renewed OEM arrangement with Nortel and Belden's with single-channel WLAN startup Extricom. Remember when Airespace was acquired by Cisco? It was a nightmarish move for Nortel and other Airespace OEMs and their customers to find alternative solutions."
May 2, 2008
Wi-Fi News from Interop
"'Instead of forcing customers to rip-and-replace their legacy network, they can instead add 802.11n on a schedule that meets their logistical and budgetary requirements,' said COO Greg Murphy. Version 6 is available now as a free upgrade for AirWave customers enrolled in a support plan."
May 1, 2008
Ohio Wesleyan Selects Aruba Networks' 802.11N Solution for Its Ubiquitous Wireless Network
"Aruba's vendor-neutral AirWave Wireless Management Suite reduces the cost and bother of technology migrations by simultaneously managing new and legacy devices from more than 16 different vendors: migrations can be staged on a schedule, and a budget, that meets their needs."
April 30, 2008
Securing Wi-Fi must be priority
"Greg Murphy, [General Manager] of AirWave Wireless, provider of wireless network management software, said defining access control rights and creating centralised policy is paramount to protecting a company's wireless infrastructure."
April 28, 2008
I.T. Managers: Monitor 10,000+ Wireless Devices From Your Desktop
"The new management suite delivers significant new features for the Help Desk, management of 802.11n networks, monitoring of wired networks, and viewing tens of thousands of wireless devices from a single console. A finalist for InformationWeek's Best of Interop 2008 network management award, AirWave Suite 6 is being used to manage the multi-vendor wireless LAN at Interop Las Vegas 2008."
March 11, 2008
Wi-Fi Management's Next Phase: Aruba Leads the Charge
"Broader management capabilities extend beyond wireless LANs. Not only do users want to control different Wi-Fi devices from a central console, but they also will want to use their systems to monitor other types of equipment. New wireless options, such as WiMax, are one likely candidate to be folded under AirWave's management umbrella."
February 1, 2008
HP ProCurve cautiously optimistic about Aruba Airwave buy
"AirWave's technology enables the collection of performance information to carry out diagnostics, and also a degree of management, on fat APs, which are autonomous entities not designed for external control. When deployed along with an overlay network of thin APs and a central controller or dedicated WLAN switch, it enables co-existence with a pre-existing environment of fat APs."
January 9, 2008
Aruba acquires WLAN management vendor AirWave
"AirWave will operate as a separate business unit in its former San Mateo headquarters. Its charter, Tennefoss says, will be "to keep doing what it's been doing." That means continuing to develop its platform as a vendor-neutral wireless management framework. Aruba will continue to sell its existing WLAN management application for Aruba-only deployments."
January 9, 2008
Aruba to buy 'Switzerland of network management'
"AirWave, based in San Mateo, Calif., provides wireless-network management software for use with equipment from a variety of manufacturers. These technology partners have for the past year and a half included Aruba itself, but also rivals such as Colubris Networks, Avaya, AirMagnet, Juniper Networks, IBM's Tivoli, and Hewlett-Packard OpenView."
January 9, 2008
Aruba buys WLAN management firm AirWave
"Michael Brandenburg, an analyst at Current Analysis Inc... [said] "We consider Aruba's acquisition of AirWave to be a strategic move that sets it apart in its ability to centralize management of the all-too-common multivendor WLAN deployment."
October 9, 2007
AirWave Wireless wins gold mobile star award from MobileVillage
"AirWave Wireless, the leader in wireless network management and security, today announced that it has won a coveted Gold Mobile Star Award from MobileVillage, the 14-year leader in market development and news services about mobile technology. AirWave has been recognized in the category of Success Story: Wireless LAN: MIT Using AirWave Wireless."
October 9, 2007
Mobile Success Story: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The complexity of today’s networks is reaching monumental proportions, leading managers scurrying for any bits of information that can provide a potential boost in performance or increase in efficiency. We’ve consulted some of the brightest network professionals in the field to deliver valuable tips that can help improve the overall effectiveness of a data center’s network."
September 14, 2007
Boost Your Network Knowledge With These Tips For Better Efficiency & Performance
"Operating one of the largest geographic entities – about 9.4 million square feet – served by a single wireless network, MIT sought a cost-effective way to enable ubiquitous wireless connectivity and a seamless user-experience for students/faculty/staff. Conversely, IT sought a “birds-eye” view of MIT’s network (for future planning/ROI) to manage/control/secure their vast, ever-growing wireless environment and support ongoing upgrades for new applications/user requirements without significantly raising the current IT headcount/budget resources available or burdening the support staff."
August 23, 2007
The iPhone is Calling: Resolving Rogue Wi-Fi Access On Campus
"Unlike mobile phones that connect exclusively to cellular networks, the iPhone constantly searches for a Wi-Fi connection to access the Internet. With students likely to bring thousands of iPhones back to campus with them this fall (not to mention numerous other Wi-Fi-enabled game systems and other gadgets), networks could be flooded with hundreds of additional access requests — and the Help Desk staff can expect numerous support calls from students trying to figure out how to connect their devices to the network. Fears about the impact of these gadgets on network performance and support costs are not unwarranted or alarmist, and clearly illustrate the need for more visibility into the wireless networks of colleges and universities."
February 19, 2007
Roll-out: AirWave Wireless Management Suite 5.0
"The true value of a wireless-management system is measured by the ability to show the entire wireless network from one smooth interface, and the capacity to handle common admin tasks, such as device configuration changes, reporting, and troubleshooting, in an intuitive interface. Role-based access permissions are also important, so helpdesk staff can see the wireless world without inadvertently doing configuration damage. The [AirWave] Wireless Management Suite is far better suited for these tasks than one of its primary competitors -- Cisco's Wireless Control System (WCS)."
February 2007
"One of the largest WLANs in the world was implemented by Virginia's Fairfax County Public Schools.... Today, Fairfax operates a network of 7,500 Cisco Aironet 1100 Series access points deployed throughout the district's 242 schools and other facilities. The district manages its WLAN with the AirWave Management Platform, a software application installed on multiple servers in the district's network operations center."
January 31, 2007
"In December 2006, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was named to the #2 spot on PC Magazine and The Princeton Review's Top 20 Wired Colleges list. (Villanova took the #1 spot.) The "wired" distinction is a bit of a misnomer, however, since MIT's campus is entirely covered by a wireless network. Begun in 1999, MIT's campus-wide network was completed in the fall of 2005 and consists of nearly 3,000 access points (a combination of Avaya and Enterasys equipment run by the AirWave Management Platform) covering 9.4 million square feet of campus."
January 30, 2007
New Airwave solution manages Wi-Fi, WiMAX and mesh
“One of the things we did within the Wi-Fi space is allow you to manage any Wi-Fi applications, from thin access points to thick [intelligent] access points,” Airwave Wireless COO Greg Murphy said in an interview with MRT. “Now, we’ve expanded that to go out to mesh networks, as well as WiMAX networks, in large part because we’ve got a lot of service providers using those technologies.”
January 29, 2007
"Expanding its product range to encompass service providers building large municipal wireless networks, AirWave Wireless Inc. today said it is releasing the fifth generation of its flagship network-management software. The new Wireless Management Suite Version 5.0, says COO Greg Murphy, is the first program to comprehensively manage WiFi, mesh, and WiMax systems from a single integrated console...."
January 29, 2007
AirWave Wireless: AirWave Expands Portfolio
AirWave Wireless, the leader in wireless network management and security, announced today its new AirWave Wireless Management Suite 5.0 software with specific enhancements for enterprises, service providers, and other large organizations.
January 19, 2007
Wireless Networking: The Road Ahead
"Through 2007 and beyond, almost every organization with a wireless network will experience significant growth in WLAN size and usage, increasing diversity of devices that connect to the network, and greater heterogeneity of network infrastructure. With these new advances, IT organizations will need a strategy that combines the management and security of both wireless and wired network infrastructures..."
January 1, 2007
Tuning in to Wireless: Things to remember when taking your campus wireless
"Gary Landau is director of network services at Loyola Marymount University (CA), where he is responsible for leading the school’s network infrastructure and telecom teams to support voice and data communications. No one is more tuned in to wireless these days than Landau..."
December 29, 2007
The Wireless Road Ahead: Totally Unplugged in 2007
"Greg Murphy, COO for AirWave Wireless (www.airwave.com), says the key trends his company sees in the enterprise market for next year are increasing focus on manageability, heterogeneity, and complexity and increasing concerns about scalability..."
December 12 , 2006
"Moving further into the service provider market, WiFi-management software supplier AirWave Wireless Inc. said today it will provide management and security for wireless networks at seven French airports, including Paris's Charles de Gaulle and Orly..."
December 12 , 2006
AirWave Lands French Airports Deal
"France-based wireless network provider Hub telecom—part of the Aéroports de Paris group—recently licensed AirWave Wireless’s Wireless Management Suite to remotely monitor and maintain more than 1600 access points at seven French Airports, including the Paris-Orly Airport."
November 28, 2006
Muni Network Management: Learning from the Enterprise
"Municipal wireless networks are cropping up in cities both large and small for several reasons, including economic development, better, more efficient communication among government and emergency personnel, and the promise to bridge the digital divide. "
November 24, 2006
"While only a handful of networks had 1,000 or more wireless access points (APs) a few years ago, today this is considered a moderate-sized WLAN. It's not uncommon for networks to expand to 10,000 or more access points," says Greg Murphy, COO of AirWave Wireless, a wireless network-management software vendor."
November 21, 2006
Thousands of Wireless Access Points
"How well are you managing your wireless network? Do you know where all your access points are? Do you know how many clients are using those access points at this moment? Now multiply those questions by over 7,000 access points spread across 220 locations, and give me your answers. "
November 2, 2006
Fairfax Public Schools Implement 7,000 Wireless Access Points with AirWave
"AirWave Wireless yesterday announced that Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia has implemented a wireless network with more than 7,000 access points using the company’s management and security technologies. "
November 2, 2006
AirWave Wireless Launches Management Portal
"AirWave Wireless, of San Mateo, Calif., announced Nov. 2 that the company has joined forces with Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia to develop a new version of its wireless management suite that includes a new executive portal."
November 1, 2006
Fairfax County Public Schools Manages More Than 7,000 Wireless Access Points
"With more than 164,000 students enrolled in more than 220 schools, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is the largest school district in the state of Virginia and the thirteenth largest in the United States. It also has a reputation as an innovator in using technology to enrich the classroom experience."
October 27 , 2006
Managing Wireless as if it were Wired
"WLAN infrastructure vendors, such as Aruba, Cisco and Trapeze Networks, have done a good job of bolstering the management features in their product sets - but each vendor's software is designed to manage only its own infrastructure products, Ahlawat says. For heterogeneous environments, such vendors as AirWave Wireless... offer specialised wireless network management software that lets enterprises manage several different makes of infrastructure products.
October 16, 2006
"Like other types of IT, wireless networks offer a mix of benefits and security threats. The potential threats are enough to make security officers and their contractors cringe. But the user benefits — those are enough to make users lay out their own cash to set up access."
October 13 , 2006
"This is all good for AirWave of course, as the company sells a management system that works with APs from several vendors, including Cisco, Aruba, Symbol, Proxim, HP and more, and doesn't really care whether the setup is with thick or thin APs."
October 11 , 2006
Educational Wi-Fi: Still Fat
"Wireless management software firm AirWave Wireless Inc. says its new survey shows that the standalone AP is still gaining prominence in educational WLAN applications but the balance will shift towards centrally managed AP networks over the next couple of years."
August 9, 2006
Managing Cisco WLANs, Part I
"If you have a mixed Cisco environment, then, you need either separate management systems from Cisco or a single heterogeneous management system from a third party such as AirWave. "
July 19, 2006
Aruba, AirWave Team to Offer WLAN Management Tools
"Aruba Networks and AirWave Wireless have teamed up to provide enterprises with an integrated solution to migrate their legacy wireless local area networks to a more up-to-date centralized architecture. "
July 17, 2006
From Thin to Thick APs: Making the Transition
"You have an existing network of distributed, intelligent Wi-Fi access points and have decided that moving to a controller-based, thin-AP architecture will better suit your management and security needs going forward. How do you make the transition? "
July 17 , 2006
Aruba, AirWave Team To Tame Legacy WLAN Gear
""This is going to improve migration strategies for people that have legacy access points," said Matt Bossom, director of wireless solutions at Accuvant, one such Denver, Colo.-based partner."
July 17 , 2006
Aruba, AirWave Agree to Wireless Deal
"Aruba Networks and Airwave Wireless are announcing July 17 that the companies will combine the capabilities of Aruba's new wireless management products and the Airwave Wireless Management Suite."
July 17 , 2006
Aruba Catches the (Air)Wave
"AMP is a very compelling system for managing RF [radio frequency] deployments... There's no other company out there focusing like them on working with thick APs and with centralized architecture." If you prefer the AMP interface, he adds that "Airwave can run the Aruba thin APs, as well."
July 17 , 2006
Aruba Catches the (Air)Wave
"WLAN startups AirWave Wireless Inc. and Aruba Wireless Networks have teamed up to offer enterprise users a combined system aimed at helping them control older "thick" access points as part of a managed WiFi network."
June 23, 2006
School Learns Management with AirWave
"Managing hundreds of Wi-Fi access points is a big job for any corporation, but for school districts, it’s a whole different matter. "
June 29, 2006
Spokane Public Schools Selects AirWave to Deploy and Manage District Wide Wireless Network
"Spokane Public Schools' plan is to rapidly expand their wireless network beginning this summer to cover all of the district's schools and support buildings. AirWave will enable them to build out a secure, effective wireless network in a narrow timeframe with the ability to manage it centrally and efficiently."
March 2006
Credit Card Security Issues Rise to a Boil
"You can't just put a few Linksys cards and a router in, you have to get professional network management tools from a vendor like AirWave that can actually audit the network and enforce policy."
January 2006
Keeping In Touch: Wendy's Implements Wi-Fi Networks in its Company-Owned Stores
"Wendy's is realizing those savings after installing a single secure access point in each store.... The chain monitors the Wi-Fi system from headquarters with software from AirWave Wireless of San Mateo, Calif."
January 1, 2006
Making Mobile Manageable
"Once you install your new wireless network, "Do you know how you're going to operate it?" asks Greg Murphy, chief operations officer of AirWave Wireless, a San Mateo, Calif.-based wireless network management software company."
January 2006
High Wireless Act: The Reality of Airborne School Connections
"[Tait Shrum, Director of IT for Bryant Public Schools] first analyzed the rogue access points that had been added to the hardwired system. He then budgeted for wireless management software from AirWave, which he says is easy for his small IT staff to manage and works with a wide array of technical interfaces."