AirWave Management Platform Named ProCurve Networking's Preferred Partner for Multi-Vendor Management; AirWave Announces Support for ProCurve Networking by HP Wi-Fi Products.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- AirWave Wireless Inc., a leading wireless network management software developer, today announced that the AirWave Management Platform(TM) has been selected as the preferred solution for managing complex, multi-vendor wireless network environments by ProCurve Networking by HP. AirWave also is supporting the ProCurve Networking by HP line of enterprise Wi-Fi products. The AirWave Management Platform (AMP) now enables customers who deploy ProCurve wireless access points to automatically discover, monitor, and configure those devices from anywhere in the world via AMP's web-based user interface. "ProCurve Networking by HP has established leadership in the enterprise networking The networking infrastructure in a large enterprise with multiple computer systems and networks of different types is extraordinarily complex. Due to the myriad of interfaces that are required, much of what goes on has little to do with the real data processing of the payroll and orders. market by delivering superior price performance and security features, and a rapidly increasing number of AirWave customers are now using ProCurve 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 products," said Gary Hegna, AirWave CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are delighted to work closely with ProCurve to give these customers a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. , automated management solution to reduce support costs, improve performance, and enhance security." The AirWave software immediately discovers new enterprise-grade HP ProCurve 420 or 520wl wireless access points and automatically implements predefined configuration and security policies. AMP monitors every user and device connected to the wireless network in near real time, immediately alerting the IT staff whenever potential performance problems are detected. "We were expecting it to be difficult to install and manage our wireless network," said Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885. network engineer Mark Keppinger, "but the combination of ProCurve hardware and AirWave software made it easy. As a result, we have a reliable Wi-Fi network See wireless Ethernet and 802.11. for our users, with all the monitoring and manageability required by our IT staff." While AMP is designed to interoperate See interoperable. and integrate seamlessly with ProCurve infrastructure, AMP is also a vendor-agnostic management solution that enables customers to monitor and configure Wi-Fi infrastructure from other leading enterprise vendors. "Many of our customers had already started to deploy Wi-Fi products from several other vendors before standardizing on ProCurve products," said Matt Zanner, Global Mobility Solutions Manager, ProCurve Networking by HP. "These customers find AMP's multi-vendor management capabilities very attractive because it allows them to efficiently control both the legacy infrastructure and the new ProCurve products from the same web-based console. AirWave also appears to be an excellent fit with our current target markets and customers." In fact, the AirWave Management Platform is used to monitor and configure the access points from ProCurve and other vendors on HP's internal wireless network. AirWave and ProCurve Networking by HP also announced today an ongoing technical and development alliance to ensure that ProCurve's most advanced features can be monitored and controlled with the AirWave Management Platform. The companies are introducing the integrated products to ProCurve's distribution partners through a series of educational seminars and webinars. AMP is now available through AirWave and its distribution partners. For more information please visit www.airwave.com. About AirWave AirWave Wireless, Inc. is the leading developer of network management software solutions that provide administrators a single point of intelligent control to monitor, analyze, and configure their wireless network infrastructure. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , and is backed by investors Westbury Equity Partners, Ignition Partners and Idealab. The company's patent-pending AirWave Management Platform(TM) software is sold through a global network of value-added resellers A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds some feature(s) to an existing product(s), then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated product or complete "turn-key" solution. and systems integrators. For more information, visit the company's website at www.airwave.com. |
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