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Trapeze WLAN location appliance adds firewall
Trapeze has a released an enhanced version of its wireless location-tracking appliance, now incorporating what had been a separate firewall product.
Green Dam And 'The Great Cave-In of China'
Call it the "Great Cave-in of China" as the Beijing government today delayed a requirement for controversial Green Dam censorship software to be...
McAfee expands in China for expected security boom
McAfee is expanding its staff in China amid a boom in the country's security market fueled by the launch of next-generation mobile networks.
When Corporate Network Safety Starts at Employees' Homes: Protecting Your Network from Home Wireless Hackers WHITE PAPER
IT managers must train their end users on wireless security, specifying wireless router hardware and configuration settings, and in some cases,...
Before you deploy APs, use these tools for coverage and capacity planning
The pre-installation site survey has long been a core element of wireless-LAN deployments. The concept is simple: set up an access point, and,...
AirMagnet Survey Pro: A site survey powerhouse
AirMagnet's robust site-survey product, Survey (sometimes in the documentation called Surveyor) offers an optional Planner Module that results in a...
BVS Swarm: A complete, well-integrated set of apps
BVS's Swarm (most of their product names have an insect theme) is actually a set of applications that implement a fairly complete site survey tool....
The Future Branch Office WHITE PAPER
The branch office two years from now will be different from the branch office of today. This Special Report looks at what to expect in terms of...
EkahauWireless Site Survey: Strong analytical capabilities
Ekahau is best known for their real-time location and tracking (RTLS) products, but they're also in the site-survey business – in fact, one of the...
Motorola LANPlanner: Feature-rich hybrid tool
LANPlanner is a direct descendent of one of the original WLAN predictive tools from RF modeling pioneer Wireless Valley, acquired by Motorola. This...
Motorola SiteScanner: Tuned for analytical measurement
SiteScanner is a cousin of Motorola's LANPlanner, with a very similar layout and user interface, but designed just for analytical measurement and...
IT Best Practices: To Support or Not Support Consumer Owned Smartphones WHITE PAPER
Companies have historically standardized on a single smartphone platform. Of late, IT is facing pressure to support the increasing influx of consumer...
Nuts About Nets AirHORN: Signal generator for predictive testing
AirHORN isn't a site survey tool in the sense of the other products reviewed here; rather, it's signal generator packaged as a USB dongle with, in...
Psiber RF3D WiFiPlanner: Covers the basics
It's easy to import building floor plans in .jpg, .bmp, or .png format into RF3D WiFiPlanner, and, similarly, it's easy to correct for rotation or...
VisiWave Site Survey SO: Solid 3D features
VisiWave Site Survey allows the user to import graphical floor plans of the area under consideration, and to manually place APs in the model.
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