* Save time (and headaches) managing your WLAN infrastructure
WaveLink Mobile Manager Enterprise
By Thomas Henderson
When you’ve got a large enterprise wireless LAN infrastructure, keeping track of all your access points becomes a monster job as the network gets bigger. WaveLink’s Mobile Manager Enterprise is a central administrative, management and infrastructure audit point for an 802.11 WLAN. In tests, we found that it’s a major piece of the puzzle that can be made even larger with the integration of AirMagnet Enterprise (see related story) to help diagnose network problems.
Mobile Manager Enterprise has an almost-surgical ability to manage a diverse set of access point brands and models in great detail by administrator-defined groups with pre-defined, articulate policies. Firmware upgrades and access control list (ACL) changes – the bane of access point management – can be rolled out with incredible ease. WaveLink keeps track of its list of compatible vendors and knows their foibles perhaps better than the access point vendors themselves. Where WaveLink can control, it has a very strong grip.
We found that the system can be fooled, but not for long. Mobile Manager Enterprise doesn’t monitor the wires like a protocol analyzer or intrusion-detection application, so it’s for wireless components only. It also has a limited set of enterprise wireless access points that are compatible with the system.
For the full test results, please go to:
https://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2005/022105testwavelink.html?nlt
