Aruba Wireless Solution

Aruba, having carved a solid position as a best of breed wireless LAN provider, has benefitted significantly from the ‘bring your own device’ phenomenon. Extending its user-based policy control to switching brings the simplicity to wired access. (1/12/2012)

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Cisco Systems WLAN

Cisco’s increased focus on campus technologies and an increased focus on all access technologies in 2011 have helped continue to drive leadership in the WLAN segment. With the importance of WLAN in the enterprise, Cisco is benefiting handsomely. (12/29/2011)

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Juniper Networks Trapeze WLAN Mobility System

Juniper has made great strides in integrating the Trapeze technology over the past year into its entire campus offering solution and continues to impress the market with its innovative technology. (12/29/2011)

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Motorola Wireless Solution

With the split of Motorola’s business units into consumer/handsets and solutions, the mobility offering and adjacent technologies have the opportunity to grow brand awareness and not be diluted within the clouded brand that was handset mobility. (8/22/2011)

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Report Contents

• Current Perspective Rating
• Product Strengths and Weaknesses
• Product Buying Criteria
• Product Metrics

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Enterprise WLAN Family - Buying Criteria

• Features
• The features metric ranks a vendor on its depth of features and functionality across the WLAN solution. Features may be delivered natively or via a well-defined partnership with a third party.
  
• Mobility
  • The Mobility metric ranks each vendor on how well its WLAN system handles converged devices and device mobility (roaming) in an enterprise context.
• Pricing
  • WLAN systems may have many individual components which contribute to overall total cost of ownership from purchasing though lifecycle maintenance.
    
• Scalability
  • The scalability metric of a WLAN System ranks each vendor on the capacity of its WLAN architecture, as well as the supporting hardware and software, which contribute to the sophistication and complexity of the WLAN solution.
• Security
  • Features which impact the ability of the system to provide access control and monitor the integrity of WLAN users and traffic.

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Enterprise WLAN Family - Product Metrics

• Products
  • WLAN Switch Models
  • AP Models
  • Supporting Products
• Standards/Certifications
  • WMM
  • WPA
  • WPA2
  • FIPS 140-2
  • Other (VPNC,Common Criteria,etc)
  • Awards
• Capacity/Functionality
  • Max APs per WLAN controller
  • BSSIDs per Radio/AP
  • Routing Support
• Mobility
  • Layer-3 Roaming
  • Roaming Mechanism
  • 802.11i PMK caching
  • 802.11i pre-authentication
• Security Features
  • Integrated firewall
  • Integrated IPsec VPN termination
  • Access control lists
  • Captive portal/Web auth support
  • Rogue AP detection/prevention
  • Ad-Hoc Client Detection/Prevention
  • AP can be a dedicated sensor
  • AP can be a shared sensor
  • Advanced Wireless IDS features
  • Packet Capture
• Authentication Features
  • Local RADIUS database
  • RADIUS Support
  • LDAP Database
  • Native Active Directory Support
• Management
  • Primary admin interface
  • AP Interface exposed
  • Graphical site planning system
  • Auto-RF support
  • Config Audit/Snapshot/Rollback
• Fault Tolerance
  • Redundant Power Supplies
  • Redundant WLAN controllers
  • Dual-homed APs
  • Infrastructure-controlled load balancing
  • Rapid Spanning Tree Support
  • Link Aggregation Support
• Pricing
  • Baseline Hardware Costs
  • Single-Radio AP
  • Dual-Radio AP
  • Software
  • Licensing
  • Service and Support
• Product Class Ratings
  • Scalability
  • Features
  • Mobility
  • Security
  • Pricing