Wireless Networks

The Most Critical Wireless Connections? Yours.

Across industries and organizations, people now expect wireless access to information and to each other. Although their individual requirements vary, enterprises increasingly realize that wireless connectivity is no longer just a convenience–it has become a core requirement.

Meru customers span all markets. Whether in education, healthcare, manufacturing, industrial, retail, logistics, hospitality, the public sector or other enterprises, they have upgraded from legacy networks, wired and wireless, for:

Performance Like Wire

Meru's unique Virtual Cell™ architecture enables enterprises to use a single wireless network for all applications wherever there is coverage: bandwidth-hungry data, high-definition video, critical telemetry and toll-quality voice. Meru networks are secured at every network layer with multiple lines of defense against all types of attacks.

Low Capex and Opex

Meru wireless networks deliver a lower total cost of ownership than legacy microcell wireless LANs because they require fewer components and most are easily managed by one person. High power access points enable high-density coverage even in physically challenging locations such as distribution centers and industrial plants.

Service Assurance Delivers Reliability

The Meru Wireless Service Assurance program easily and efficiently helps ensure wireless network availability by identifying and alerting you to issues before they affect users.

Extreme Networks offers a complete suite of wireless LAN products providing highly scalable, secure, and robust wireless solutions for the enterprise mobile workforce.

Extreme Networks^® wireless solution offers the flexibility required to meet the specific needs of small to medium sized businesses, large corporate campuses, and distributed enterprises with many branch offices. It seamlessly integrates with the wired infrastructure offering fast and easy deployment of unified voice and data services as well as common security and QoS policies across the entire network. Customers can manage their Extreme Networks wired and wireless networks with Ridgeline™, the unified management platform.

Summit ^® WM series Wireless LAN controllers are powered by enterprise-grade software to support current and future applications including wireless multimedia services. They are all 802.11n ready. Altitude™ Access Points (APs) are designed for versatile deployments including remote sites and outdoor harsh environments.

Scalable wireless LAN solutions are available for small to medium to large enterprises. Extreme Networks wireless solutions offers world class capabilities including comprehensive network-wide security, enterprise grade voice services and unified policies and services across wired and wireless networks. We enable the enterprise customer to reduce the complexity for wireless network deployment and management.

Security Products - Sentriant Family of Network Security Appliances

The Sentriant^® family of security products provides organizations with cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solutions to today’s tough network security challenges. These high-performance, highly scalable products verify that connecting devices are in compliance with security policy and detect and mitigate rapidly propagating network threats in seconds.

Extreme Networks ^® products are targeted to protect your network infrastructure from attacks that originate from within the network and to control access to critical resources. LAN switches, wireless LAN controllers and security products from Extreme Networks provide a variety of security policy violation detection capabilities and policy enforcement capabilities. The combination of these products allows the network to participate in improving the overall security posture of your infrastructure and protect access to critical networked resources. Leveraging the capabilities within the network elements allow our security products to scale with your infrastructure and reduces the number of appliances that you need to add to achieve the required security posture. The reduction in the number of appliances improves the availability of the network and reduces the total cost of ownership.

Management Tools

Solve tough management challenges with simple tools to configure, monitor, secure, and operate your data network.  Call 815-929-9850 for a free demonstration of EpiCenter, Extreme Networks management solution for large networks.

Operating Systems

ExtremeXOS is an open, extensible network operating system with a modular design for high availability and application versatility.

Extreme Networks has changed the industry by creating ExtremeXOS^® – a highly available and extensible software foundation for converged networks. ExtremeXOS raises the bar for availability, which is critical when offering carrier-grade voice and video services over IP and for supporting mission-critical business applications such as CRM. A more available network can also lower operational costs by drastically reducing emergency maintenance. ExtremeXOS allows you to extend the capabilities of your network via dynamic loading of applications, XML APIs and CLI scripting. It allows you to integrate specialized application appliances such as security and VoIP monitoring devices into your network via XML, as well automatically configuring edge ports for security and VoIP using its Universal Port event based activation of scripts.

ExtremeXOS has a rich set of Layer 2 and Layer 3 control protocols, provides flexibility on the design of highly resilient networks and has been designed from the ground up to support the next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6. Even if you are not planning to use IPv6 immediately, ExtremeXOS can help secure the network using IPv6 Access Control Lists and help provide investment protection for your network. Security capabilities provide network access control integrated with end point integrity checking, and network control and management plane protection. ExtremeXOS has been deployed in production networks since 2003.

Technical Resources

The challenges you face today are daunting and different from the challenges you had several years ago. Truly converged networks that carry voice, video, data and wireless traffic are fast becoming a business imperative. Additionally, in a business environment where every second counts, application availability and network reliability are critical components for your success.

A full menu of available services from network planning, re- IP addressing your network, multi-site deployments and full network refreshes are available through the combined services of Extreme Networks Professional Services and CNG Network Engineers.