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About Aerohive

Aerohive Networks is pioneering a next-generation enterprise wireless LAN architecture. Aerohive's cooperative control wireless LAN architecture eliminates wireless LAN controllers, providing all the management, mobility, and security of controller-based architectures without the cost, capacity, performance and availability issues associated with controller deployments. In addition, Aerohive solutions provide the reliability and scalability necessary for mission-critical networks and are optimized for voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) applications.

"Our challenge was to deploy a cost-effective, secure wireless convenience network that has the performance, reliability, and scalability to support our current demanding, mission-critical applications, as well as future needs such as voice over wireless LAN," said Nick Colakovic, director of IT, First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc., the nation's largest provider of diversified industrial real estate. "We chose the Aerohive cooperative control solution over controller-based wireless LAN solutions because it easily met our requirements today and gave us the confidence that it could economically scale in the future."

-- Nick Colakovic, Director of IT, First Industrial Realty

Aerohive's cooperative control wireless LAN architecture pushes network control and data forwarding to wireless LAN access points at the edge of the network, providing important business benefits, including:

		Linear pricing and lower cost, including both in very small (branch) and in very large (campus) deployments
		Scalable, latency-optimized performance, supporting applications such as voice over wireless LAN (VoWLAN) and the ability to scale to 802.11n performance and beyond
		High availability and mesh redundancy for mission-critical applications
		Lower complexity for easier deployment, maintenance, and management
		More straightforward migration from first-generation access points
		More effective security and policy enforcement
		Single architecture that effectively covers the entire enterprise from single AP locations, to branch offices, large headquarters locations and even open spaces
		Cost effective solution for convenience networks that can seamlessly scale to support mission-critical applications as needed

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