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 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.

Isle of Wight County is one of the oldest county governments in the U.S, and like many cities and counties, Isle of Wight County Schools rely on high-tech learning tools to help give its students the best education possible. With the exceptional goal of giving the students access to the Internet (and devices for accessing the Internet) the county turned to Aerohive to reach that goal for their 5,500 students attending one of nine K-12 schools: two high schools, two middle schools and five elementary schools, as well as for the 900 faculty and staff.

Lubbock Christian University deploys Aerohive's cooperative control HiveAPs to provide reliable WLAN connectivity to the school's multiple networks: one network for students, faculty, and staff that provides secure, encrypted access to applications and resources, another for secure, but not encrypted access, and a third that provides unsecure Internet access for guests.

The Pender County School District in North Carolina wanted to find the most affordable, scalable, and easily managed wireless LAN. After examining all of its alternatives, the district found success with Aerohive Networks.

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.

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.

A leader in ultra high-pressure (UHP) waterjet technology for cutting and cleaning, Flow International selected Aerohive's Cooperative Control wireless LAN solution to provide consistent, secure, centrally managed Wi-Fi connectivity enterprise-wide.

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.

As Broomfield Hospital, part of Mid Essex Hospital Service NHS Trust, undergoes a major redevelopment, the IT team is using this opportunity to integrate cutting edge wireless technology to optimize usage of medical tablet PCs, computers-on-wheels, and RFID to track beds and medical equipment. Implementing a wireless network from Aerohive allows the team to reach their goal of making the hospital 'self-aware'.

A leader in the shortening and oils industry, Columbus Vegetable Oils chose Aerohive's Cooperative Control wireless LAN solution for its new manufacturing and warehouse facility because of its superior security, reliability, manageability, and flexibility.

As 1:1 laptop programs become more common and as curricula allow students more access to computing and personalization of their computers, teachers have found themselves becoming both the first line of network support for their students and the content traffic cop, which draws them away from their central role as educators. This solution brief will describe Aerohive's TeacherView application, which provides a very compelling tool to enable the network control teachers need to make 1:1 programs succeed.

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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.

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 delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. By increasing the troubleshooting granularity and active response speed far beyond what any IT professional could accomplish manually, SLA Compliance allows IT to make Wi-Fi performance guarantees.

Wireless is a shared medium, meaning that all clients and neighboring APs compete for the same limited bandwidth. In addition, each client's speed varies depending on the protocol it is running (802.11 a/b/g/n) and the signal strength, interference and noise it is experiencing. This paper reviews key issues that affect wireless LAN performance, and explains how Aerohive's new Dynamic Airtime Scheduling can solve these problems.

802.11n promises to bring revolutionary advances in bandwidth, throughput, and reliability to the wireless LAN. It will also have a perhaps unforeseen impact on the wired network, as well. Bandwidth, throughput and reliability will now become an end-to-end network problem, particularly in cases where the WLAN is deployed as network infrastructure rather than as an overlay.

To address the challenges of a Wireless 2.0 world and provide enterprises with exactly what they need, Aerohive developed a controller-less wireless LAN architecture called Cooperative Control. Our WLAN solution provides all the performance, availability, management,mobility, and security needed in a large campus deployment, and, with the elimination of controllers in the architecture, is cost effective even in small branch office and warehouse deployments.

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

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.

Aerohive Chief Wi-Fi Architect Devin Akin introduces the terminology used with discussing Quality of Service for wireless LANs.

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

Presenter: Devin Akin

Presenter: Abby Hassel Strong

Presenter: Paul Levasseur

Industry analyst Craig Mathias and Bob O'Hara look at the future of Voice over WLANs, how different WLAN architectures affect the creation of wireless mesh, and the promise of 802.11n.

In this short video, we will introduce you to TeacherView, an innovative new WLAN product designed to make the most of laptops in the classroom.

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

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

The AP320 is a high performance dual concurrent (2.4 and 5 GHz) 802.11n (3x3) MIMO access point with dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports. The AP320 is a Plenum Rated AP designed for indoor office environments.

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.

Once you've enabled your people to work from virtually anywhere, anytime, and on any device, you need to maintain essential security and control under the constant pressure to drive down cost, while increasing productivity and growth. Enter the Cloud.

Presented by Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group, June 21, 2011

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

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Faxe Kommune, a small Danish municipality with about 4,200 public school students aged between 6-16 years, needed a wireless network that would provide faster, secure access to advanced learning resources, and that would keep pace with the rapid adoption of new learning technologies. The city’s wireless networks, consisting of many autonomous APs, had grown up to support these investments but it was proving impossible to create a cohesive network.

With 50 skilled healthcare facilities and counting across Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Saber Healthcare Group is committed to providing quality care to the people of its community. Due to its rate of growth, the organization faced the need to deploy an easy-to-manage wireless network – one that would provide seamless and reliable connectivity to buildings that are distributed across vastly different locations.

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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In today’s virtual enterprise, access to corporate resources must be secure, reliable, and manageable, with consistently enforced policy while simultaneously allowing access from anywhere at any time. This is why access network strategies have become critical to business growth. If IT can empower every remote worker with the full capabilities available at headquarters, the business can differentiate itself and directly influence the company’s bottom line.

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

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.

Regent’s College London is the UK’s largest not-for-profit college of higher education. It comprises seven schools under the umbrella of two faculties as well as a conference centre, and is based in central London. Regent’s College London assessed WLAN solutions from Aerohive and Meru, but chose Aerohive based on its ability to scale with the college’s ambitions and compelling price point.

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.

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.

Interview with Wi-Fi industry expert, Joe Epstein, co-founder of Meru Networks and CEO of stealth-mode security startup Virtuata.

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.

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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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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Skilled Healthcare, LLC, is a leading support-services provider to the long-term care profession. These locations comprise over 10,700 licensed beds.As with all such diverse healthcare companies, dealing with a combination of aging facilities and increasing wireless demands presents a challenge to enterprise-class wireless networks. That’s where Aerohive came in.

Aerohive’s patent-pending Bonjour Gateway takes service advertisements that are restricted to a single broadcast link and makes those services available network-wide, without any client modifications or VLAN gymnasitics.

Barfoot & Thompson - Auckland's real estate market leader - has over 1850 staff operating in the Northland and Auckland regions. Their highly mobile workforce pride themselves on operating with integrity and building successful client relationships. Thanks to Aerohive, they are able to enhance these relationships with customer-focused mobile applications, as well as ease of management regarding deployment and multiple device management.

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.

North Georgia University offers a high-quality college experience in a beautiful mountain setting, about an hour north of Atlanta. Aerohive's quality, performance and numerous WLAN features reinforce the college’s mission of excellence. The university plans to use Aerohive in cutting-edge networks, such as a gaming-only wireless network for the residence halls.

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. 

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.

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.

The Aerohive Retail Analytics solution leverages Euclid Analytics’ analysis technology and Aerohive’s Cloud Services Platform to enable offline retailers to optimize and improve their business with metrics and insights only previously available to online retailers. Retailers can now understand an array of metrics about customer behavior and begin to tie that behavior to purchasing habits to optimize their business operations without adding anything beyond their standard in-store Wi-Fi infrastructure.

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.

Chesterfield County Public Schools is one of the largest and highest-rated school districts in Virginia, educating more than 58,700 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.

The SR2148P platform is a 48-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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The SR2024 platform is a 24-port Gigabit Ethernet access switch with 4 additional 1 Gigabit SFP ports. 8 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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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.

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The Aerohive Cloud Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) governs your use of the Aerohive Cloud Services Platform. Please review this SLA together with Aerohive’s End User License Agreement (“EULA”), which also governs certain obligations relating to your use of the Cloud Services Platform.

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.

Toyota New Zealand has run a motorsport program, Toyota Racing Series (TRS), for the past 9 years. The TRS is a single seat formula designed to provide drivers and engineers with experience in preparing and competing in a one design championship, and provides drivers the opportunity to display their capabilities in a relevant and recognised car. With a greater number of international teams, the need to get up to the minute information to their parents, sponsors and connections throughout NZ, Europe, North America and Asia had become paramount. An Aerohive Wi-FI connection allowing up to the minute live reporting and information to team members, parents and sponsors throughout NZ and the World. With the Aerohive Wi-Fi network in place, the Toyota Racing Series reported an immediate difference in their ability to track their drivers on the track and supply this information to all interested parties.

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.

When NHS Lincolnshire, a national health service organization responsible for the planning and purchasing of healthcare for for over 700,000 people, wanted to extend wireless flexibility and mobility benefits to on-site employees at community hospitals, clinics and GP surgeries, they turned to Aerohive.

Riverside Health Care Systems is always on the lookout for to state-of-the-art medical technology to increase the productivity of its staff and to continually improve the quality of patient care. When they realized that an 802.11n wireless LAN would enable a broad range of new applications to exactly fit those goals, they turned to Aerohive Networks.

New York-based Charmer Sunbelt Group distributes wine and spirits to retail establishments in 15 states and the District of Columbia, employing over 5000 people and generating more than $4.5 billion in annual sales. Having just migrated their network of 22 warehouses to a new SAP system, now it's time to upgrade the WLAN.

While Horry County boasted competitive test scores, and other education achievements, it had run into reliability and manageability problems with its existing wireless network. It needed a more robust solution to serve as the Wi-Fi infrastructure for its highly distributed environment.

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.

Vehicle testing, inspection and certification company installs Aerohive’s enterprise WLAN solution for efficient on the go vehicle diagnostics.

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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Extended visibility into applications based on context, such as user, device type, connected location, and time, ensures that IT administrators are equipped to deal with the transition of wireless to the primary access layer as well as the myriad of devices that users may bring onto the network. Focusing on simplicity and user centricity, the Aerohive HiveOS application visibility and control functionality provides the necessary visibility, control, and cloud-enabled management to move the network from being a free-for-all to being a controlled, secure, and scalable next-generation access solution.

East Brunswick School District in central New Jersey wanted to find a better way for its students to utilize computers in the classroom. Their goal was to provide one desktop PC for each classroom, as well as a number of mobile computer carts for use throughout the schools. To reach that goal East Brunswick turned to Aerohive.

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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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 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 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'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 AP170 5GHz Directional Antenna is an outdoor single-band (5GHz) antenna with 18dBi gain.

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.

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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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.

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.

This white paper will take government agencies through the necessary connectivity and productivity requirements and explain how Aerohive can help ensure the network is truly ready for the mobility explosion. This will include an overview of the necessary access, authentication, and security options, as well as a focus on how to properly manage devices once they are on the network — one of the most overlooked aspects of a BYOD implementation. Networks should be prepared to make all devices attached to it productive and compliant for a successful BYOD implementation.

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 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.

Healthcare is an ever-changing and consistently challenging environment for technology, but Aerohive has a unique focus on ensuring the wireless LAN and access layer are easy to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor. Regardless of where you live around the world, technology is going to continue to play a larger and more critical role in healthcare, and it is important to stay informed and in compliance with all regulatory compliance requirements.