Located in Cumberland, MD, Allegany County Public Schools was facing those growth pains that come for folks who embrace high-tech trends: It needed to accommodate an influx of Apple iPads, and other popular Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, on its wireless network.

With a solid reputation in the worldwide logistics industry for customer satisfaction, Averitt Express knows the valuable of uptime and reliability. Therefore when a network audit revealed a weakness in its existing wireless security the result was a thorough overhaul of its WLAN, upgrading from a wireless deployment with autonomous APs to a controller-less, centrally-managed wireless architecture.

Classic virtual private networks (VPNs) that connect networks in stores and warehouses to corporate networks generally add cost, complexity, and confusion to each location. Aerohive provides Branch on Demand a cloud-enabled networking solution for retailers that simplifies provisioning, management, security, and troubleshooting for their remote deployments.

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Churchtown School, one of the largest primary schools in the UK, was been searching for a new wireless LAN, and Aerohive answered the call. Reliability was a top priority, followed by manageability, performance, and cost, plus the ability to take advantage of the latest technology, including 802.11n.

About three years ago Folio Investing found itself in need of a technology upgrade at its corporate headquarters: It needed to accommodate its increasingly mobile workforce by deploying a company-wide wireless network. It needed a platform that was secure and that integrated wired and wireless networks.

Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time and take advantage of tremendous computing power available in consumer devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Regardless of whether these devices are corporate issued or personally owned, almost every IT department is experiencing the effects of unprecedented smart device and “Bring-Your-Own-Device” (BYOD) policy adoption in their enterprise. This paper will help you understand and address IT’s Dilemma in a Bring Your Own Device World.

NHS Newham wanted to ensure staff had the ability to update and access patient records or schedule a medical procedure from any location securely and in real time. A limited budget required choosing a wireless vendor who could help drive down CAPEX and OPEX without compromising security, innovation and value. Aerohive was able to deliver.

When Scotmid started looking for a Wi-Fi solution for their warehouse, they quickly recognized the need for wireless technology to support future applications at other locations as well, including the Co-op’s modern, three-story headquarters building and its 260+ retail stores. What Scotmid wanted was a single wireless LAN solution capable of meeting the needs of all three of these very different environments.

The Aerohive Simpli-Fi Solution is built on Wi-Fi mesh technology for access-point-to-access-point direct communication. With a fully distributed data forwarding and control plane architecture, Aerohive Simpli-Fi eliminates dependency on Wi-Fi controllers and remote WAN connections for superior performance. Caregivers and clinicians receive nonstop access to their critical applications and patient data.

In less than a decade, wireless LANs have evolved from a niche technology useable only by a few specialized applications to the default media of choice for millions of businesses and consumers. And WLANs continue to evolve. The latest generation of high-speed wireless LAN technology, based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Draft 802.11n standard, are now becoming available.

In addition to corporate given laptops, employees are bringing their own devices to work these days – iPhones, Droids, iPads -- you name it; they are bringing it in. And they are expecting you to help them access the corporate Wi-Fi network with their own devices.

Aerohive Networks HiveManager NMS is a management system for Aerohive access points and branch routers. HiveManager enables simple policy creation, firmware upgrades, configuration updates, and centralized monitoring from a single console.

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The debate waging between deploying either public or private cloud services has remained to be a major worry and source of confusion among IT managers. This paper helps to define and differentiate between private and public cloud services in order to make a well-informed decision on which service to implement.

Cloud networking introduces a new way to deploy, operate, and manage distributed enterprise networks. It delivers enterprise-class network capabilities via a cloud infrastructure that requires little or no capital investment in additional appliances or IT resources. This white paper will provide details about cloud networking, the state of the cloud market, its benefits, and Aerohive’s cloud-enabled networking platform and its current cloud networking offerings.

The last 5 years of enterprise wireless LANs have enabled IT professionals to push high-availability techniques to the network edge, closer to users than ever before. By eliminating the need for controllers, the Cooperative Control Architecture from Aerohive Networks delivers unprecedented levels of availability, resiliency and scalability to mission-critical WLANs while significantly reducing the costs and complexity associated with controller deployments.

The distributed, virtualizing enterprise seeks to limit—or break—the relationship between physical location and the ability of a business to function. By shifting from traditional mid-sized to small branches to larger numbers of very small locations, the enterprise can more agilely address its business needs and opportunities. This strategy requires that IT be able to implement a location for a small number of users with very low overhead, and that it be able to turn up services at such locations very quickly—and turn them down again just as quickly. Ultralight branches let the business drive the placement and lifespan of branches while minimizing real estate, infrastructure, operational, and service costs.

Cloud-based WLAN management is poised to become a major alternative in the network management space. In fact, Farpoint Group believes that a majority of WLAN installations will be using cloud-based management over the next five years.

Creating “Wi-Fi that works”, even with minimal requirements, is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types that must perform well over the wireless infrastructure, but when adding in the speed and complexity of 802.11n, a variety of demanding applications, high-density environments, and tricky deployment scenarios, controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. This whitepaper defines what a Wireless 2.0 network is, and the importance of a controller-less architecture for performance, reliability, scalability, security, and flexibility.

Aerohive next-generation controller-less Wi-Fi paired with AirWatch mobile device management streamlines and automates connectivity, management, and monitoring of mobile devices and BYOD. Together the solution provides profile enrollment, re-enrollment, and security policies for Android, Apple iOS, Mac OS X, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone devices

Because 802.1X requires the installation of a software client, it is difficult or impossible to use on unmanaged devices not owned by the enterprise, such as those of guests, students, subcontractors or the like. Aerohive’s patent-pending Private PSK provides the ease of PSK with many of the advantages of 802.1X solutions.

Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) was looking to implement a high-performance wireless LAN (WLAN) that could support staff, patients, visitors, and students studying at the university. The existing Cisco WLAN, however, was unable to support the hospital’s ambitions or provide the scalability they needed as a growing organization.

The AP121 is a cost-effective, enterprise-grade 2x2 MIMO solution, which is ideal for education, healthcare, and distributed enterprise environments. With two radios, concurrent 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz access, and security scanning across both bands, the AP121 provides top performance and security at an entry-level price point.

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The AP170 is an enterprise-grade, high performance (2x2) MIMO solution, designed for high bandwidth demand outdoor wireless environments.

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The AP330 is a durable, enterprise-grade, (3x3) MIMO solution, designed for high bandwidth demand wireless enterprise environments.

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The AP350 is a durable, enterprise-grade, (3x3) MIMO solution, designed for high bandwidth demand wireless enterprise environments.

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BCS, a global baggage handling and logistics specialist, operates from 30 different offices across three continents. Thanks to Aerohive’s simple cloud based network solution, all BCS locations now act as one big networked office. The benefits of Zero touch deployment of new branch offices and centralized management of their systems has been immediate and cost effective. 

To make networks service-aware and make BYOD with Apple devices a native part of every network, Aerohive has built a Bonjour Gateway to manage and control Apple service availability (such as AirPrintTM, AirPlay®, file sharing, collaboration applications, etc.) across an entire enterprise network. This patent-pending functionality is a native part of Aerohive’s HiveOS network operating system and as such even non-Aerohive legacy networks can manage their services by attaching a single Aerohive device, via a trunk port, to the network – the gateway functionality works out-of-band.

The Aerohive BR200 Router platforms combine secure routing and enterprise-class Wi-Fi in a single platform, providing essential networking and management capabilities to connect, secure, and manage branch offices. The BR200 router series comes in two models: the BR200 and the BR200-WP.

The Aerohive Branch on Demand™ solution makes it easy to deploy corporate capabilities to employees anywhere, while reducing operational costs. The key lies in a suite of features and functionality designed specifically for remote environments that simplify operations, enforce security policy, reduce costs, and operate virtually maintenance-free.

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Brookdale Senior Living is the largest provider of senior housing and senior care in the industry. Each day, about 46,000 Brookdale associates serve nearly 60,000 residents in a variety of settings. But like many senior living organizations, Brookdale Senior Living has a limited engineering team. These constraints are challenging, but Brookdale nevertheless recognized that it needed a next-generation wireless LAN to reach its far-flung facilities, to provide wireless access within those facilities, and to help the company realize the value of its other technology initiatives.

One of the most overlooked aspects of the BYOD phenomenon isn’t just connecting the users to the network, but how to manage them once they’re there. Getting mobile and BYO devices onto the network is now table stakes. This white paper will take you through the necessary connectivity and productivity requirements in order to ensure your network is truly ready for the mobility explosion.

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As your Wi-Fi deployment grows, day-to-day management can become more and more challenging. In this solution brief we'll provide an overview of Aerohive's new Client Health Score feature which cuts through volumes of data to show you the overall health of clients in an “at-a-glance” format, then enables you to drill down if you see a specific problem. We'll look at the statistics compiled to generate the Client Health Score's simple "green/yellow/red" view, and discuss the use of the Client Health Score in our new TeacherView feature.

Chartered on February 8, 1693 by King William III and Queen Mary II, The College of William & Mary is a breathtaking blend of classic architecture and cutting edge technology. As the second oldest college in America and one of Intel's "50 Most Unwired College Campuses", William & Mary has unique challenges and extremely high standards for its wireless networks.

Aerohive Networks has pioneered a new WLAN architecture called the Cooperative Control architecture. It is a controller-less architecture that eliminates the downsides of controllers while providing the management, mobility, scalability, resiliency, and security that enterprises require in their wireless infrastructure. This paper discusses the benefits of this approach and the key underlying technologies of cooperative control, best path forwarding and policy enforcement at the edge.

Drakes Supermarkets consists of 57 stores throughout South Australia and Queensland, with a turnover in excess of $1B and 5500 employees nationally. They are the largest independent grocery retailer in Australia. Despite its expansion, the company has managed to keep its focus on the important aspects of the supermarket business – THE CUSTOMER – by always striving to provide superior customer service. And having an Aerohive Wi-Fi network has helped with the continued customer focus - with the ease of deployment of the network, easy centralised management and the network's compatibility with the latest retail applications, Drakes can spend their time focusing on delivering a friendly retail experience.

This demo will show you how Aerohive's unique Dynamic Airtime Scheduling feature works in a lab scenario.'

Join industry analyst Craig Mathias and WLAN veteran and Airespace founder Bob O'Hara as they discuss WLAN architecture including the drawbacks of controller-based systems.

WLAN industry veteran Bob O'Hara and analyst Craig Mathias talk about elements that affect scalability, including performance, resiliency, and management.

Fentress Architects is a global design firm with offices in the U.S. and London. Founded by Curtis Fentress in 1980, the firm has designed $26 billion of architectural projects worldwide.

Located in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK, Fitzharrys Secondary School implemented a wireless network in 2003 to enhance computer access in the classroom. When autonomous APs could no longer provide the coverage and performance of the growing demands on the network, Fitzharrys turned to Aerohive to meet all of their wireless requirements.

The Framingham Public School District in Massachusetts decided to model itself like a university. By working toward enabling network access for people to use the devices they already own, the district's goal is to embrace and support personal systems, while preserving the network's safety and security. The best way to achieve this goal within budget, the district decided, was to incorporate Aerohive's wireless LAN.

The Hampden Academy is part of the Maine School Administrative District 22, a public school district in central Maine. The district uses a variety of Aerohive Access Points for its high-performance, easy-to-scale wireless LAN. Aerohive allows the new high school to meet the demands of Apple devices.

The Borough of Hartlepool on the northeast coast of England is striving to give teachers and students broadband access in an effort to improve learning opportunities, both in and out of the classroom. The project, known as the Hartepool LearnNet, allows for wireless LANs in schools, as well as other locations where students gather, such as community centers, youth centers, and libraries, so any student with a laptop or personal device can access the Internet and on-line curriculum applications from wireless hot spots.

Design your high-density WLAN with sufficient focus on network planning and design and ensure the network equipment that is purchased and deployed is capable of delivering both high performance and intelligent features to optimize the use of limited spectrum. Only through proper requirements gathering, network design, configuration, and continual optimization can a Wi-Fi network be deployed that meets the demands of a dense client population. This white paper outlines a set of simple principles that you can use as a basic guide when designing your high-density network. 

See how easy it is to configure, plan, and deploy a wireless LAN, using Aerohive's new HiveManager Online Demo.

Aerohive HiveOS is the operating system that powers all Aerohive devices. HiveOS Switching delivers enterprise-class switching functionality combined with identity-based routing, security features like 802.1X, and contextual policy enforcement.

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Hoogvliet is a supermarket chain with 62 supermarkets and 57 liquor stores, spread across the center of The Netherlands. Hoogvliet opted for Aerohive because its unique architecture eliminates the need for a controller, which was compelling for the supermarket chain’s objectives for 24/7 uptake and scalability.

Innotrac Corporation, based near Atlanta, Georgia, is a best-of-breed commerce provider integrating digital technology, fulfillment and contact center solutions to support global brands. They chose Aerohive for their fast, reliable, scalable and easy to use and manage wireless solutions.

The Iowa Judicial Branch has about 1,700 employees across the state in 150 offices, with the majority of them online during business hours. All 150 offices needed some level of WLAN support. But like many older buildings and courthouses across the country, concrete or solid rock walls present a serious challenge to an ambitious IT team.

In 2003, John Marshall became the first law school in Chicago to deploy a campus-wide wireless local area network, providing mobile Internet access to its student body. Facing an extremely expensive upgrade to their controller-based WLAN, the school decided it was time to look for an alternative WLAN architecture.

For so many people, pets are considered a member of the family. When they fall ill, like any family member, they receive the best healthcare the family is able to provide. With a growing clientele, its advanced services, and a goal to leveraging the latest wireless-enabled medical equipment available, Long Island Veterinary Specialists center faced the need to deploy business-class Wi-Fi throughout its facility.

100-year-old school for girls gets a wireless upgrade to give students and faculty greater access, and to give IT greater control, reliability, manageability, and flexibility to meet the school's changing needs.

10 Requirements for Optimizing Your Network for Mobility

The age of the mobile-first enterprise is upon us. The challenges that face IT can be daunting and decisions made about access to enterprise resources today will affect how efficient and effective the IT organization is for years to come. This document sets out what it means to be a mobile-first enterprise and what networks are needed to accommodate the modern corporate user. It seeks to understand the potential issues IT faces in a mobile-first enterprise and the advantages of framing the problems properly for long-term success and effectiveness.

Yesterday's de facto standard architecture is commonly referred to as the, “controller-based” architecture. It involves one or more controllers and controller-based (lightweight, thin) access points (APs). Aerohive re-introduced what every router and switch network already used as a defacto standard – fully distributed control plane leveraging free protocols with a centralized network management system, eliminating the need for a centralized Controller. The controller-less solution.

Located near Auckland in New Zealand, Ormiston Senior College (OSC) has an enrolment capacity of 1000 students for Grades 11 to 13. OSC, with Aerohive's Wi-Fi, have realised their own expectation that any wireless device within the school should be able to connect from anywhere to their online cloud-based learning resources, whether they be school-owned computers, handheld devices or phones brought in by students and staff. This innovative technological approach has supported the school in the delivery of its personalised learning ethos.

In this short introduction to 802.11n, we will overview the benefits and difference of the new standard.

Aerohive WLAN Architect Devin Akin discusses elements you should think about before deploying an 802.11n network.

Aerohive Chief Wi-Fi Architect Devin Akin discusses the use of Airtime Scheduling for Quality of Service in a wireless LAN.

Devin will discuss the technical enhancements of 802.11n, including MIMO, Phy and MAC enhancements.

Aerohive WLAN Architect Devin Akin discusses coexistence or backward compatibility mechanisms between 802.11n and 802.11a/b/g.

Queens University of Charlotte is a private, co-ed, Presbyterian-affiliated university. Queens uses a variety of Aerohive APs for its high-performance, easy-to-scale wireless LAN architecture that provides staff, instructors, students and visiting family with uninterrupted network throughout the campus and in off-campus buildings.

Retailing companies often must support many geographically dispersed sites on a shoestring IT budget. The wireless LANs (WLANs) in these sites are often small, but they nevertheless need business-class capabilities, such as advanced security protection and centralized management, which often add a premium to the price tag. New WLAN architectures and deployment models, however, have emerged to offer more options to help retailers get what they need while sticking to their budgets. This paper will explore new wireless opportunities for retailers, and then discuss several considerations associated with modern WLAN decision-making.

RHA Health Services is a leading non-profit provider of services and support for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Aerohive clearly offered the most reliable enterprise wireless network infrastructure, which was a key requirement for RHA’s move from a paper-based system to a fully integrated EMR system.

Rowan-Salisbury School System is the largest employer in Rowan County comprised of 35 schools, about 20,000 students, and about 3,000 employees. Rowan-Salisbury was facing the growth pains that come for school districts that embrace high-tech trends. It needed to accommodate an influx of Apple iPads, iPod Touches, laptops, and other popular Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, on its wireless network.

The San Mateo Event Center has evolved to become one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s top destinations for consumer and trade events. The Event Center uses a variety of Aerohive APs for a high-performance, scalable wireless LAN to cover its 48-acre site.

Seminole County Public Schools is one of the largest and highest-rated school districts in Florida, educating about 64,000 students. The district uses a variety of Aerohive Access Points for its high-performance, easy-to-scale wireless LAN. Aerohive allows schools to meet the demands of BYOD and computer-based testing.

Addressing the Wi-Fi challenges in today's healthcare facilities, such as providing flexibility to caregivers for any device access, HIPAA compliance, and ease of management for healthcare IT. The Aerohive solution resolves these challenges and helps to deploy a simple, resilient and low cost Wireless LAN network.

In this short 5 minute demo, we'll show you how Aerohive's new Performance Sentinel solution works in the lab.

Unprecedented adoption of wireless mobile devices, in the enterprise impacts every IT department as they must now deal with technologies that enable access to enterprise applications anywhere, anytime, from any device whether they be corporate issued or personally owned.

The South Carolina Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services (SCDPPPS) maintains a main headquarter office in Columbia, SC plus 53 widely distributed offices around the State. SCDPPPS chose a comprehensive WLAN solution from Aerohive for its security, performance and resiliency features, along with Unified Access Control (UAC) software from Juniper, an Aerohive partner.

The SR2124P platform is a 24-port Gigabit Ethernet access switch with 4 additional 10 Gigabit SFP ports. All Ethernet ports support high-power PoE (Power over Ethernet+), and the entire device supports the feature-rich capabilities of HiveOS, including RADIUS, 802.1X security, and cloud-based management.

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Stephenson Harwood is a leading international law firm that turned to Aerohive for a wireless network that would allow them to operate a secure, easy to manage, future-proof network, which could support Mobile IT adoption, and meet workers’ growing expectations.

Aerohive Networks StudentManager is a powerful monitoring and reporting system for school districts who use Aerohive HiveAPs for wireless access. StudentManager is designed to provide a school district with a single solution to monitor and track wireless client use in schools, as well as put power into the hands of classroom administrators while instructing using a wireless network.

Tennessee Tech University is the state’s only public technological university, TTU uses a variety of Aerohive APs for its high-performance, easy-to-scale wireless LAN architecture that provides staff, instructors, students and visiting family with uninterrupted network access on the sprawling campus.

Top Cambridge independent school is now offering uninterrupted Wi-Fi for pupils across its 50 acre campus with Aerohive’s enterprise wireless LAN.

The VeldhovenGroup started in 1950 as an importer for various clothing producers, before establishing itself in 1980 as a fashion house. Their challenge was to replace the existing Wi-Fi hotspots, reduce time spent managing and remediating on-site WLAN connection issues, and offer staff and guests custom access profiles for personal and corporate-owned devices. Aerohive’s WLAN and HiveManager Online was the perfect solution to all their challenges.

Located in Western Sydney, Australia, Tyndale Christian School caters to over 750 students from Prep to Year 12 across 18 separate buildings. Thanks to the reliability & ease-of-management of Aerohive's Wi-Fi, Tyndale are rapidly working towards delivering 1-to-1 learning where every student has a portable digital device so that they can connect with their teacher, other students or experts.

The Client Health Score enables administrators to get a summary picture of how a client is performing at a glance.

When this prestigious university set out to provide Internet, video conferencing, telephony, and media programming services ubiquitously throughout campus, it turned to the most resilient and easiest to manage Wireless LAN network equipment maker available.

For some time, Wheaton Academy's 45 teachers used desktop computers to access applications such as on-line attendance, grading, homework assignments, and Moodle, a virtual blackboard application. Desktops lacked mobility, however. Because classrooms were in continuous use, teachers needed a way to move from classroom to classroom and still access applications from wherever they were.

Presenter: Paul Levasseur

Presenter: Paul Levasseur

Presenter: Paul Levasseur

It is crucial to thoroughly understand the systems management capabilities of any WLAN being considered, since this will be the largest ongoing expense of the overall deployment. The vendor should list and clearly describe every element of the central management system required. Learn how to evaluate properly by reading Aerohive's WLAN Definitive Guide.

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The AP110 is a high performance 802.11n (2x2) MIMO access point with a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port and delivers a data rate of 300Mbps with a single dual-band radio. The AP110 is ideal for deployments where a single radio 802.11a/b/g/n solution is sufficient, such as small retail environments, telecommuters and micro-branches.

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Aerohive’s Bonjour Gateway is designed to vastly simplify the support of Apple-compatible devices in the enterprise. Of all the solutions available for supporting Bonjour, only Aerohive’s Bonjour Gateway offers innovative multi-vendor integration, enterprise-class control features, and the simplicity of running on a standard VMware environment.

Aerohive’s Cloud VPN Gateway (CVG) is designed to simplify VPN termination for thousands of remote workers in an innovative, new way. The heart of the CVG is a lightweight, software-based solution for VMware-compliant equipment; the soul of the CVG is an enterprise-class VPN concentrator terminating thousands of VPN tunnels from remote access locations.

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Aerohive Networks HiveManager Online NMS is an enterprise-class management system for Aerohive access points and routers, delivered as a cloud-based service. HiveManager Online offers the same simple policy creation, firmware upgrades, and centralized monitoring options as the on-premise version of HiveManager, without the need to deploy another device in your network.

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Aerohive HiveOS is the operating system that powers all Aerohive devices. HiveOS Routing delivers non-stop networking, routing with VPNs and enterprise firewall security to remote and branch offices.

Aerohive's ID Manager is the first enterprise guest management system to leverage the cloud to simplify and automate the deployment and maintenance of enterprise guest management.

The Aerohive indoor single-band lightweight antenna is well suited for applications where 120° H-plane and 70° E-plane is most optimal.