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| HP and Cisco to Deliver Pervasive Indoor Wireless Solution HP and Cisco Systems have announced a joint effort focused on helping enterprise customers take advantage of a wide array of new applications and services based on Cisco's Pervasive Indoor Wireless technology. The new applications and services include security, guest access, voice over Wi-Fi, and location-based services and allow for the creation of a variety of new applications, such as IT asset tracking, presence-based applications, dual-mode voice, and integrated intrusion detection and prevention. HP will provide systems integration services for the new and enhanced products within Cisco's Unified Wireless Network Family, including the Cisco Catalyst 3750G Integrated Wireless LAN Controller and the Cisco Unified Wireless Network Software Release 4.0. The companies' joint work is intended to improve operational efficiencies and reduce costs associated with WLAN services. Cisco's Unified Wireless Network Solution can efficiently address the WLAN security, deployment, management and control issues facing enterprises. HP will build on Cisco's pervasive wireless platform to create a comprehensive enterprise network computing solution by providing design, integration and management services, and supporting this solution for customers. Earlier this year, Cisco introduced a number of new and updated products that work with Cisco's Light Weight Access Point Protocol (LWAPP), a management protocol that allows the intelligence for a wireless network to be located centrally. By moving most of the intelligence to a centralized controller, the configuration time for an access point can be greatly reduced. This allows HP to provide faster deployment and expansion, as well as simplified management, of a Cisco Pervasive Indoor WLAN. Customers can now turn to HP's expertise in taking full advantage of LWAPP, whether it be with new Cisco deployments or when making firmware changes to existing Cisco 1200 IOS-based access points. The announcement is a component of HP's multi-vendor networking strategy and expands HP and Cisco's efforts to develop an intelligent information infrastructure that creates, stores and delivers strategic data, voice and video, when and where it is needed across an enterprise. It also builds on the companies' global, strategic alliance. Other solutions offered by the HP and Cisco alliance include intelligent buildings, IP telephony, integrated service management, HP OpenView network management, mobile and wireless, virtualized data centers and network storage solutions. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |