AirMagnet and Vivato Partner on Wi-Fi Interoperability; Collaboration will Allow WLAN Management and Monitoring Products to 'See' Enterprise-Class WLAN Switch.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 2003 AirMagnet, Inc., the leading developer of wireless network management systems and security assessment solutions, and Vivato, a wireless networking See wireless network. infrastructure company and the creator of Wi-Fi switching, today announced a partnership to allow their industry-leading technologies to interoperate See interoperable. . "Enterprise wireless LANs 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 are being deployed and integrated into more and more networks, and as the technology becomes more robust and sophisticated, it's important for network engineers to be aware of the best-of-breed Wi-Fi technologies and tools available to ensure a successful installation," said Chris Marco, president of TerraWave Solutions, an authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: distributor for both AirMagnet and Vivato. "AirMagnet helps companies' secure and monitor their networks, and Vivato's switch offers a revolutionary Wi-Fi solution for the enterprise. Together, these companies offer a way to easily secure and monitor high-bandwidth Wi-Fi network See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. that can increase productivity and mobility and reduce costs." AirMagnet and Vivato will work together to allow AirMagnet's award-winning mobile suite of wireless LAN management products to survey and manage the unique radio frequency (RF) attributes of Vivato's Wi-Fi switch products in any environment. Integration with AirMagnet will allow business customers to install, deploy, manage and secure the Vivato switch more effectively. "AirMagnet's products are extremely valuable for installation, management, maintenance and security of wireless LANs, and have already gained significant traction in the enterprise," said Ken Biba, chief executive officer of Vivato. "We've built a product that changes the parameters of Wi-Fi deployment. This partnership will make it much easier to deploy, manage and troubleshoot To find out why something does not work and to fix the problem. Troubleshooting a computer often requires determining whether the problem is due to malfunctioning hardware or buggy or out-of-date software. See debug. wireless LANs in enterprise environments." AirMagnet's wireless LAN (WLAN See wireless LAN. WLAN - wireless local area network ) management and security solutions, including the AirMagnet Handheld and AirMagnet Laptop, help companies deploy, administer and secure their wireless networks. Built on the AirWISE intelligent analytical engine A programmable calculator designed by British scientist Charles Babbage. After his Difference Engine failed its test in 1833, Babbage started the design of the Analytical Engine in 1834. , this unique suite of management tools extends the expertise of network professionals by detecting security threats, monitoring network performance and pinpointing and solving WLAN problems. AirMagnet provides the only family of wireless management solutions designed from the ground up to address the unique security, performance and reliability challenges presented by WLANs. Vivato's Wi-Fi switch provides enterprises and service providers with a new architecture for deploying 802.11 wireless local area networking. Designed to support standard 802.11b Wi-Fi devices, the Vivato 2.4 GHz Outdoor Wi-Fi Switch provides three simultaneous beams of Wi-Fi throughout the coverage area. Its unique PacketSteering(TM) technology directs up to 33 Mbps of Wi-Fi capacity to active clients through an electronically controlled phased array antenna that creates high gain beams of Wi-Fi. The antenna system and switching electronics of the outdoor switch are integrated into a single flat panel about the size of a plasma television screen. "Vivato's switch changes the physics and the economics of wireless LANs," said Dean Au, chief executive officer of AirMagnet. "We've attempted to design the most comprehensive set of products available for installation, maintenance and security of wireless LANs. Interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. with Vivato takes us one step closer to that goal." About Vivato Vivato is the inventor and first manufacturer of Wi-Fi switches for enterprises and service providers designed to enable high bandwidth Wi-Fi wireless networks everywhere: in the enterprise, across campuses and throughout metropolitan areas. Vivato is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden with a research and development center in Spokane, Wash. For more information, please visit www.vivato.net or call 415.495.1111. About AirMagnet Founded in 2001, AirMagnet, Inc. provides complete wireless LAN management and security software systems for the enterprise. Used by IT professionals in the manufacturing, financial, retail, service, education and government sectors, AirMagnet tracks down unauthorized access, locks down approved access points and locks in unprecedented levels of network performance, security and reliability. Unlike traditional packet sniffer See network analyzer. (networking, tool) packet sniffer - A network monitoring tool that captures data packets and decodes them using built-in knowledge of common protocols. Sniffers are used to debug and monitor networking problems. 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. (C)2003 AirMagnet, Inc. All rights reserved. AirMagnet, AirWISE, the AirMagnet logos are trademarks of AirMagnet, Inc. All other products names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. |
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