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INTRODUCTION

Bluesocket is the leader in open wireless security and management solutions that simplify the complexities of mobile enterprises. Bluesocket provides a comprehensive end-to-end product portfolio that enables leading universities, healthcare organizations, government institutions, libraries, and enterprises to deploy, secure, manage and profit from their wireless LANs. Bluesocket's products allow its customers to build secure, manageable, global WLAN deployments that support thousands of mobile workers simultaneously.
Bluesocket’s end-to-end wireless local area network (WLAN) solution set features the award-winning BlueSecure™ Controller, a scalable WLAN Controller that supports enterprise WLAN deployments from the network edge to the core. BlueSecure Controllers provide an open, multi-vendor solution that integrates easily into existing infrastructure; seamless Layer 3 roaming with Bluesocket’s patent-pending Secure Mobility® technology; flexible policy enforcement; universal WLAN authentication for diverse users/devices; strong data encryption; intrusion detection and worm protection, with integrated client scanning for endpoint security; and VoIP support via advanced QoS and bandwidth management features.

BlueSecure Access Points. Bluesocket's BlueSecure Access Points (APs) are next-generation, "thin" access points that work in conjunction with BlueSecure Controllers for enterprise WLAN deployments. BlueSecure Access Points feature dual radios supporting 802.11a/b/g in a plenum-rated housing with fixed omni-directional antennas (Model AP-1500) and optional external antennas (Model AP-1540). Bluesocket’s enterprise-class MIMO AP (Model AP-1700) integrates a sophisticated six-antenna array that combines multiple signal paths to provide significantly up to 30% better in-building 802.11 a/b/g wireless coverage and performance today while being fully field-upgradeable for 802.11n compatibility tomorrow. BlueSecure APs are completely plug-and-play, requiring no manual configuration. Bluesocket’s DynamicRF™ technology automatically adjusts AP power and channel settings, and provides RF coverage hole detection and self-healing coverage for AP failures, thereby ensuring interference-free communication.

BlueSecure Intrusion Protection System (IPS) is an economical way to deploy RF-based monitoring and analysis for your WLANs. BlueSecure IPS protects the enterprise from all types of rogue devices including access points, rogue clients, neighboring WLANs, peer-to-peer (ad hoc) networks, and software APs as they appear. Not only can BlueSecure IPS alert you to potential WLAN threats, it can also actively contain or block threatening rogue devices. Bluesocket offers three versions of its RF IPS systems; a stand-alone configuration comprised of a Windows–based server with distributed RF sensors, a centralized RF sensor that ties directly into the BlueView™ Management System, and RF IDS provided at the network edge by BlueSecure Access Points. All three architectures provide a complete security monitoring solution that protects your information assets from current and emerging wireless threats.

Bluesocket's BlueView™ Management System simplifies WLAN management by providing true centralized configuration and maintenance, policy-management, and monitoring capabilities for your WLAN Infrastructure. BlueView’s powerful scheduling tool enables you to automate BlueSecure Controller and Access Point maintenance and provisioning tasks such as backing up and restoring configurations, pushing out policy or configuration changes, upgrading system software, and installing software patches or new WLAN deployments. Dashboard views give administrators complete system status of BlueSecure Controllers and Access Points enabling a quick response to any issue that may arise.

Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner employs a predictive design approach which uniquely allows companies to consider the context of the environment and predict RF coverage and capacity before deploying any hardware resources. Wireless LANPlanner enables network planners to import a map of the facility, note the contents and construction materials, designate user regions and applications to be used and place equipment. The designer then interactively simulates how the wireless signals will propagate and fine-tunes the network design with “what if” analysis to determine optimum performance.

Designed to address the needs of High Data Density™ wireless networks, Bluesocket's systems uniquely deliver Secure Mobility® through an intelligent, centralized management architecture--to maximize the productivity benefits of a mobile enterprise, while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of WLANs and simplifying wireless access for users and network managers alike.

Bluesocket award-winning solutions are deployed in more than 47 countries worldwide. More than 1700 educational, corporate and government institutions, including Harvard University, Honeywell, Universal Health Services, Toyota, and Parker Hannifin have all "Bluesocketed" their WiFi wireless local area networks (WLANs) in order to make them more secure and better managed.

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