AirMagnet Selected by Microsoft to Support Wireless Network at Tech-Ed 2004.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Wi-Fi Monitoring and Management System Ensures Hiccup-Free Wireless Connectivity for 10,000 Conference Goers AirMagnet, the leader in wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area (WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network ) security and performance solutions, today announced that Microsoft selected its Mobile and Distributed products to manage its wireless LAN (WLAN) at the Tech-Ed 2004 conference held in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif. (May 23 - 28, 2004). The conference used AirMagnet's Distributed 4.0, Laptop and Handheld solutions to set up and monitor its wireless network. Tech-Ed 2004 conference organizers deployed more than 125 802.11b access points (APs) in an effort to provide ubiquitous wireless LAN connectivity to nearly 10,000 attendees for the duration of the event. Tech-Ed deployed over 30 AirMagnet Distributed sensors in areas with high wireless utilization to monitor for performance issues and traffic overload See information overload and overloading. . Using AirMagnet, Tech-Ed was able to support a peak usage of over 5,000 concurrent users In computer science, the number of concurrent users for a resource in a location, with the location being a computing network or a single computer, refers to the total number of people using the resource at the same time. following the conference's opening keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. on May 24th. The significant increase in virus, worm and denial of service attacks An assault on a network that floods it with so many additional requests that regular traffic is either slowed or completely interrupted. Unlike a virus or worm, which can cause severe damage to databases, a denial of service attack interrupts network service for some period. and network complexities make it more difficult to achieve a secure and highly available network in a temporary location for this number of attendees. Microsoft brought together a consortium of network security industry vendors to design, develop and implement the onsite Security and Network Operating Center (SNOC SNOC Singapore National Olympic Council SNOC Southern Nuclear Operating Company SNOC Secure Network Operations Center SNOC Secure Network Owners Committee SNOC Singapore National Oil Company SNOC Southern National Omnibus Company SNOC Senior Nurse On Call ) to address the challenge. Participants included AirMagnet, Microsoft, Computer Associates, HP, SteelCloud, SmartCity Networks and Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. . "Providing a robust, secure and highly accessible wireless network at events is definitely a challenge -- at Tech-Ed 2004 we were tasked with troubleshooting hundreds of devices and potential performance issues," said Jon Bromberg, director of events, Microsoft. "The AirMagnet solution allowed us to monitor the wireless network proactively, at a level not possible through any other method, which resulted in significant improvements in wireless availability for our attendees." Tech-Ed also used AirMagnet's Handheld solution to find and troubleshoot improperly configured attendee and exhibitor devices that were acting as APs and creating interference and connectivity problems. The AirMagnet solution reported approximately 75 Rogue APs, while Distributed 4.0's Rogue block feature was used to stop wireless stations from associating to the APs until they were found. "Deploying and maintaining a wireless LAN at a crowded conference is no small feat -- it's a good proving ground for our products, if they can manage and secure Wi-Fi networks See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. in such a dynamic environment, they can certainly manage networks for enterprises, hospitals and manufacturers," said Rich Mironov, AirMagnet's vice president of Marketing. "Our comprehensive set of products simplify WLAN installation, deployment and management, and have become the official WLAN monitoring solution for tradeshows including Networld+Interop." About AirMagnet Founded in 2001, AirMagnet, Inc., provides the most trusted WLAN management and security software systems for the enterprise in handheld, laptop and distributed configurations. Used by IT professionals at more than 2,000 companies worldwide in manufacturing, financial, retail, service, health care, utility, transportation, education and government sectors, AirMagnet solves Wi-Fi connection problems, tracks down unauthorized access, simplifies site surveys, and locks in unprecedented levels of network performance, security and reliability. Unlike traditional packet scanners and protocol analyzers See network analyzer. that have been adapted from their original purpose to analyze wired networks, AirMagnet solutions were designed specifically for wireless LANs. Additional information about AirMagnet and its products is available on the Web at www.AirMagnet.com. AirMagnet and AirWISE are registered trademarks, and the AirMagnet logo is a trademark, of AirMagnet, Inc. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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