| Feature |
Benefits |
| HiveAPs |
| Indoor/Industrial model for carpeted or concrete space and an Outdoor model for outdoor/harsh environments |
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Dual 802.11a and 802.11b/g |
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Rugged chassis for office or industrial |
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Diversity fixed antennas or external jacks |
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All models run HiveOS cooperative control software |
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| Cooperative Control |
| Topology aware predictive, fast L2/L3 roaming and guest tunneling |
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Clients can securely and seamlessly roam across the WLAN |
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| Stateful failover |
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No session interruption in case of failure |
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| Automatic RF control - channel, power & station load balancing |
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No need for RF expertise to do an installation |
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Eliminates co-channel interference |
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Ensures connectivity in case of failure |
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Prevents any single AP from being overloaded |
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| HiveAP auto discovery & self organization |
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No staging for HiveAPs |
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No configuration of required for cooperative control functions |
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| Policy Enforcement at the Edge |
| Security - WPA2 & 802.1x WiFi Alliance Certified |
Support for state-of-the-art security methods |
| Built-in wireless IDS - rogue AP detection and wireless denial-of-service (DoS) protection |
Complete security at no extra charge |
| Built-in on-board stateful-inspection firewall policy enforcement with session state sync with neighbors |
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Ensure security at no extra charge |
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Session synch for seamless failover, enforces policy at the edge based on user identity |
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| Identity-based user policy |
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QoS, firewall, backhaul |
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Guest portal |
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Easily optimize services by user at the edge of the network |
| Dynamic Best Path Forwarding |
| Forwards traffic via the optimal wired or wireless mesh connection |
Finds the shortest path of a packet to its destination even if the shortest path is over the air |
| Utilizes sophisticated/scalable L2 routing with inherent loop prevention |
Routes around failure without requiring spanning tree |
| Non-blocking performance today and with 802.11n |
No need to scale controller capacity as you increase the number of APs |
| Quality of Service for Voice, Video and Data at the Radio |
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Per VLAN, per user profile, per service, per MAC address QoS assignment & rate limiting |
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Full queuing support with 8 queues - strict and weighted round robin queuing mechanisms |
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Marking and policing - WMM (802.11e) for wireless, 802.1p and/or diffserv |
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Granular QoS down to the user and service. |
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Optimized for Voice over WLAN and other demanding applications |
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Ready for the challenges of 802.11n |
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| Full queuing support with 8 queues - strict and weighted round robin queuing mechanisms |
Same as above |
| Marking and policing - WMM (802.11e) for wireless, 802.1p and/or diffserv |
Provides QoS at the edge but with an end to end approach to ensure proper handling of data across the LAN and/or WAN |
| Management |
| Central management & device configuration via HiveManager |
Lowers TCO, simplifies deployment and ongoing management |
| Mesh |
| Built-in mesh capabilities |
Mesh functionality at no extra charge |
| Self-healing enabled by dynamic path selection |
Routes around any failures, even failures at the access switch |
| High Availability |
| Full client session synchronization across HiveAPs |
Ensures seamless and stateful failover in the case of an APfailure |
| backhaul failover of any HiveAP even in the event of a wire failure |
Ensures seamless failover in the case of a wired failure |
| Locationing |
| Complete support for marketing-leading locationing vendors |
Enables a complete location solution without the capital outlay of an overlay network. |
| Bridging |
| This feature allows for wired Ethernet traffic to be backhauled across the mesh. |
Enables extension of wired networks to other buildings, to wired devices like surveillance cameras, and to wired clients in tough-to-reach spots utilizing Aerohives rich and resilient mesh as a backhaul. |