HiPath Wireless

The All Wireless Enterprise – The New Mobility Frontier

Workforces are quickly becoming more mobile. Especially within corporate sites, employees expect to work and communicate with equal effectiveness whether they are in meetings, shared workspaces, at their desks, or on the factory floor. Enterprises are challenged to meet these expectations, at least-possible-cost, while improving business processes, communication speed, and employee productivity.

The latest developments in WLAN technology have made the All Wireless Enterprise a reality. With the advent of 802.11n, enterprise WLANs are now equal or better to their wired equivalents in speed, availability, security and far surpass wired LANs in terms of flexibility and productivity gains for the growing mobile workforce.

HiPath Wireless is the industry’s most cost-effective and easy-to-deploy 802.11n WLAN, providing fast, reliable, and secure wireless connectivity for voice and business processes across the enterprise and beyond. The HiPath Wireless solution delivers a comprehensive WLAN/FMC portfolio, the industry’s best 802.11n technology, leading VoWLAN performance and call quality, and an unrivalled capability to enable multiple mobile business process solutions on a single infrastructure.In addition, for customers interested in the benefits of Wired / Wireless integration, HiPath Wireless is now integrated with the Enterasys portfolio of Switches, Management and Security products. For more information, visit www.enterasys.com.

Siemens also offers unmatched communications and industry experience backed by an extensive range of service options. Additionally, HiPath Wireless offers an open framework for integrating best-in-class applications, devices, and solutions. HiPath Ready certified third-party partner solutions are available to enrich any HiPath Wireless deployment.

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Increased Mobile Employee Productivity: With HiPath Wireless and the All Wireless Office, employees are empowered with voice and data network access regardless of where they are on campus and which device they have available. Furthermore, employees are reachable at a single office number regardless of where they are on campus, which means they are less frequently called by colleagues on their mobile phones. This is particularly powerful in large-campus environments when travel-time between meeting locations is significant and employees can communicate or work during periods of time spent away from their desks, such as between meetings.

Reduced Mobile Network Fees for On-Campus Communications: Due to its industry-leading VoWLAN capabilities, HiPath Wireless enables mobile users to leverage the existing enterprise VoIP network even when they are away from their desks. While moving about campus employees can place calls over the HiPath Wireless network rather than using the public mobile network. As a result, VoWLAN can considerably reduce cellular communications costs.

Reduced Operational Costs of Maintaining Multiple Networks: HiPath Wireless alleviates operational costs by converging voice and data onto a single network. State-of-the-art management tools greatly simplify MAC and the need for on-site maintenance. HiPath Wireless’ innovative architecture and power-conservation features make it remarkably easy to deploy fast and reliable 802.11n WLAN without major network changes.

The value of HiPath Wireless and the All Wireless Enterprise can be summarized into these key benefits:

Increased employee productivity. Mobile employees can communicate – and have pervasive wireless access to corporate data and applications – from anywhere on the campus, resulting in increased employee productivity (more work done faster), responsiveness, and decision making.

Reduced mobile network communication costs. According to Frost & Sullivan, using VoWLAN can save between 15 and 40 percent on cellular and PSTN calls.

Consolidated voice & data infrastructure. Because of HiPath Wireless’ ability to accommodate a number of voice and data solutions on a single infrastructure, it is possible to eliminate redundant infrastructure that would be required for independent point solutions, resulting in significant capital and operational cost savings. An all wireless enterprise also reduces the cabling and switching costs of a typical wired LAN deployment.

Faster solution deployment. HiPath Wireless’ open, flexible architecture makes it easy to centrally segment and optimize the network without the need for complex, cross-network switch and device configuration. This provides the foundation for deploying multiple high-performance solutions across the enterprise with minimal cost and effort.

Business process efficiency. The introduction of mobility to previously static business processes (e.g. mobile voice) or the ability to bring technology to low-tech business processes (eg. paperless work order entry) will create numerous efficiencies that can result in significant cost savings and business process improvements.

 

 

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HiPath Wireless is a voice-optimized WLAN infrastructure engineered to enable seamless integration of multiple mobile business process solutions on a single infrastructure. HiPath Wireless provides a secure, manageable, highly available, and scalable foundation for mobility across the enterprise. The new frontier of the All Wireless Enterprise is available now.

HiPath Wireless Manager:

HiPath Wireless Manager provides a full range of powerful, yet intuitive management capabilities that reduce the complexity and operational costs of managing the wireless LAN (WLAN) and offer an array of open API’s to deliver mobility enabled business processes. Comprehensive multi-Controller management allows administrators to maintain centralized control of large wireless networks. Additionally, HiPath Wireless Manager’s capabilities can be greatly extended through optional Advanced Services modules and partner solutions that integrate sophisticated mobile business processes and applications into the HiPath Wireless network.

HiGuard Security and Reporting:

HiPath Wireless Manager can be enhanced by the addition of the HiGuard security module which adds state-of-the-art wireless intrusion prevention, location and visualized performance optimization for 802.11a/b/g and 802.11n networks. HiGuard Reporting also provides compliance assessment testing for industry regulations.

HiPath Wireless Controller:

The HiPath Wireless Controller is a high-performance platform that provides centralized intelligence for the HiPath Wireless solution. The Controller aggregates and coordinates all access points and manages clients, greatly reducing the need for on-site installation and maintenance. Deploying redundant Controllers ensures a highly available network that enables communication sessions (such as VoWLAN) to continue uninterrupted even in the event of a Controller failover.

HiPath Wireless Convergence Software:

HiPath Wireless Convergence Software resides on the Controller and provides an intuitive web-based interface that makes it easy to manage the entire network. Virtualized user segmentation allows unique quality of service, security, and application permissions to be centrally defined and pushed throughout the entire network. This not only simplifies network management, but also eases the implementation of sophisticated mobile solutions across the wireless LAN (WLAN).

HiPath Wireless Access Points:

HiPath Wireless Access Points provide 802.11a/n or 802.11b/g/n coverage almost anywhere – the office, factory or outdoors. All Access Points and Controllers in the WLAN are virtually interconnected, enabling centralized management and seamless overlay into any existing IP-based network infrastructure. All of this leads to greater management control and operational efficiency.


The division of processing between the Access Point and Controller is optimized by Siemens Virtual Network Services Architecture, which balances high performance, security, and manageability. Unique plug-and-play technology and innovative Power-over-Ethernet capabilities enable easy WLAN deployment and coverage across the enterprise.