Cisco Systems this week introduced an architecture designed to make wireless LANs easier to manage and more secure. Cisco's Structured Wireless-Aware Network framework, which includes a series of enhancements and additions to its hardware portfolio and new software capabilities, are . . .
Cisco Systems this week introduced an architecture designed to make wireless LANs easier to manage and more secure. Cisco's Structured Wireless-Aware Network framework, which includes a series of enhancements and additions to its hardware portfolio and new software capabilities, are also designed to head of the threat of competitors using wireless LANs as a bridgehead to attack Cisco's core enterprise networking market.

Cisco's pitch is that its framework provides the security, scalability, and reliability that enterprises need to run core business applications over a wireless LAN network. To enjoy these benefits to the full, corporates need to standardise on a Cisco-only network.

"The advantages of a 'wireless-aware' Cisco switch and router infrastructure combined with a Cisco wireless network include a common management and robust security scheme, simplified deployment and operation, centralised control and configuration of thousands of networking devices, the ability to detect rogue access points, fast secure roaming for mobile applications and self-healing networks for improved wireless up-time," the pitch continues.

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