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

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.

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.

Aerohive meets requirement for secure Wi-Fi providing connectivity between ticketing machines on buses and servers located across network of bus depots.

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.

Radio conditions change rapidly, and responding to a constantly-shifting environment requires that a network have the agility to react quickly. In this paper learn how Aerohive’s cooperative control architecture was designed to enable distributed algorithms to support real-time processing, and this capability is used extensively within the radio management subsystem of HiveOS, the Aerohive operating system.

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.

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.

One of the world's largest lighting manufacturers, Acuity Brands Lighting, chose to upgrade from autonomous APs to Aerohive Hive APs. Aerohive's Cooperative Control architecture enabled easy-to-use management capabilities for the entire global deployment from a single site, without the cost or complexity of a controller-based architecture.

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.

The Boise School District needed to curtail the use of off-the-shelf, unsanctioned, unmanaged Wi-Fi access points (APs). The district turned to Aerohive for an affordable and the easy solution to set up and maintain multiple virtual LANs (VLANs).

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.

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.

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.

The District Hospital Erding Dorfen is a hospital for primary healthcare in Germany. It consists of two hospitals—Erding and Dorfen—working in close cooperation. Erding is the academic teaching hospital for the Technical University of Munich; spread over five floors and complete with helipad, it provides emergency and complex surgical procedures. Dorfen is situated 18 km East of Erding and specializes in internal medicine and minor surgery, as well as GP services.

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

The El Centro Regional Medical Center desired a wireless LAN that would meet its current needs and would also flexibly accommodate future requirements, particularly the migration to higher-bandwidth 802.11n equipment. ECRMC anticipates that 802.11n's increased bandwidth will benefit busy physicians by speeding application performance and by increasing the coverage and reach of the network.

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.

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.

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 Harrisonburg City Public School system in Virginia could no longer provide reliable, secure wireless network access to its 4400 students (K-12) and 750 faculty members using the consumer-grade wireless access points they had implemented a few years ago. Network Administrator Dwayne Hottinger approached the Division Technology Committee at their monthly meeting with an ultimatum: "Either we find a wireless system that works, or we don't have a wireless system at all." What they found was Aerohive.

The Aerohive Networks HiveAP 120 is a high performance 802.11n (2x2) MIMO access point with a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port that delivers a data rate of 600Mbps with dual radios. The HiveAP 120 is a cost-effective, enterprise-grade solution, ideal for education, healthcare and distributed enterprise environments.

The Aerohive Networks HiveAP 320 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 HiveAP 320 is a Plenum Rated AP designed for indoor office environments.

The Aerohive Networks HiveAP 340 access point provides high performance dual concurrent (2.4 and 5 GHz) 802.11n (3x3) MIMO as well as dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports. The HiveAP 340 is rated for extended temperature ranges, and designed for locations such as warehouses, industrial environments, distribution centers

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

Holly Area School District in Holly, Michigan is one of the schools leading the Wi-Fi-in-Education charge. A visit to Apple's Cupertino campus gave the district's Director of Technology, Matt Nello, the inspiration deploy MacBooks, iMacs, iPads, iPhones, iPod touch devices and Apple’s 21C digital media tools to the district's students, and connecting them to the network via Aerohive's Wi-Fi.

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.

LaVie Administrative Services (LAS) provides outsourced information technology (IT) and comprehensive business solutions to over a hundred long term and post-acute care customers throughout the U.S., including skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, and assisted living and intermediate care facilities. LaVie's customers must deal with secure access to, and transmission of, protected health information through the wireless network.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With six campuses located throughout Michigan, and courses offered online, Siena Heights University prides itself on its ability to make a private education affordable as well as its desire to embrace emerging technologies. Siena, as a leader in technology, was the first university in Michigan to offer complete wireless coverage across the main campus. However, as a result, its current wireless system was showing its age.  The IT department realized that it had a pressing need to step up its game by embracing the newer Wi-Fi standards and finding a more robust and management friendly system that would meet the expectations of today’s users as well as the challenges of the future

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.

Sommerville College became the first University of Oxford College to embark on a project to provide blanket Wi-Fi for all staff and students using Aerohive's Wi-Fi Solution.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Aerohive's guest account management and authentication server completes Aerohive's robust and secure guest access solution. In combination with HiveAPs, the GuestManager enables guest users to be simply and securely authorized for access to a guest network. The Aerohive GuestManager makes it simple for authorized employees to create guest accounts while keeping the guest network secure by authenticating and reporting on all guest users.

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.

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.

When the IT group at Macaroni Grill needed to build everything that a standalone company would need to operate, and highly secure Wi-Fi played a major role in the infrastructure requirements. Macaroni Grill turned to Aerohive because its wireless network met its Wi-Fi security requirements, as well as other requirements such as ease of management and deployment.