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Still others feel bombarded by complex and often
contradictory information about the rapidly developing
WLAN market segment. This market overflows with
a wide range of WLAN technologies, products and
architectures such as "fat" access points, "thin" access
points with WLAN controllers and other approaches.
A related challenge is navigating the confusing
marketplace of various vendors, many of whom lack
the longevity and trusted brands that enterprises seek
to safeguard their investments.
Another challenge is that wireless networks have for
the most part evolved separately from wired networks.
As a result, even networking vendors that offer both
wired and wireless equipment and network
management products have sold them as two separate
"tracks," leaving much of the coordination up to
individual customers.
All enterprises, regardless of their stage of WLAN
adoption, want clear answers about which mobility
solutions to deploy, as well as when and where to deploy
them. And as organizations begin to rely on WLANs as
they now rely on wired LANs, they increasingly care
about the security, ease of deployment, session
persistence, quality of service and — perhaps most
importantly — ease of management of their entire
mobility infrastructure once it is in place.
ProCurve Offers a Unified Approach
All ProCurve products and solutions — both wired
and wireless — share the foundation of the ProCurve
Adaptive EDGE Architecture (AEA), a cohesive vision
designed to best meet network infrastructure needs both
today and in the future. The ProCurve Adaptive EDGE
Architecture approach is to push intelligence to the edge
of the network, where users connect, enabling command
from the center with control to the edge.
The ProCurve AEA foundation led to the ProCurve
Adaptive Networks vision, an approach to network
infrastructures that can significantly boost
organizations' ability to compete effectively in the face of
rapid change. By being adaptive to users, to applications
and to organizations, Adaptive Networks fortify security,
increase productivity and reduce complexity across the
organization.
ProCurve's mobility offerings are a prime example
of the ProCurve Adaptive Network vision in action.
They provide maximum choice and flexibility to meet
a wide array of customer needs, securely and without
added complexity. Because ProCurve's wireless solutions
have evolved within the same AEA framework as its
wired solutions, ProCurve unifies wired and wireless
networking in ways not previously possible.
This holistic approach enables enterprises to manage
all their mobility options consistently with one another,
as well as with wired network solutions. ProCurve's
centralized, network-wide management and secure
access control makes it easy to deploy and centrally
manage a secure, yet flexible, multi-service network that
can lead to greater productivity as well as better return
on IT investment.
In addition, ProCurve's infrastructure is based heavily
on open standards and strengthened by industry-leading
warranties and robust service and support. As a result,
ProCurve offers built-in investment protection for its
mobility solutions, allowing enterprises to adapt easily
to changing needs and incorporate future applications
— such as VoWLAN — into the same infrastructure
deployed today.
