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Highlights: AirWave 7

AirWave: An Operations Solution The Aruba Advantage

for the Changing Network Architecture A Better User Experience
In today’s dynamic, distributed enterprises, users have moved away from AirWave Wireless Management Suite™
their desktops. They connect to the network with multiple mobile devices, from Aruba Networks has been
on campus and in branch offices, from home and on the road. These designed from the ground up as an
mobile users have increased the support burden for everyone in IT, from the operations solution for the whole IT
network engineers responsible for managing the infrastructure to the service organization, from the service desk,
desk staff who answer the phone when users experience connectivity to the NOC, to network engineering.
problems. It’s more important than ever to have an accurate picture of Each team member has role-based
access to relevant information, and it’s
everything that affects service quality for users — from wired infrastructure,
usually just a click or two away.
to the RF environment, to controllers and access points — and to take an
intelligent, user-centric approach to network management.
User-Centric Management
AirWave Wireless Management Suite™ from Aruba Networks delivers
operational efficiency for teams managing rapidly changing networks and AirWave gives you a single, accurate
supporting mobile users who connect via the wireless LAN as well as wired picture of everything that affects
Ethernet ports. With its easy-to-use interface and user-centric approach, service quality for your users —
from wired infrastructure, to the RF
AirWave lets your service desk triage connectivity issues while your valuable
environment, to individual mobile
network engineering staff focuses on proactive work to optimize the
devices. It also integrates easily with
network. existing IT service management tools
for more efficient problem resolution.
AirWave helps you save time and money, improve service quality, and make
better decisions about your network.
Intelligence for Better
Airwave - What’s New Decision-Making

WIRED MANAGEMENT AirWave provides a wide range of

• Monitors and manages Cisco edge switches actionable information, from time-
• Monitors HP and NETGEAR edge switches sensitive alerts to historical reporting.
• Generates reports on wired port utilization in support of capacity planning and network With data that spans days, months,
rightsizing activities and seasons, you always have
what you need to spot trends, plan
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS & EVENT CORRELATION capacity, and craft the right strategies
• Maps upstream relationships between APs, controllers and switches
for your organization.
• Correlates upstream problems with downstream events such as down APs

EFFICIENT CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT Multi-Vendor, Multi-Architecture,

• Configuration of Cisco edge switches using text-based templates Multi-Generational
• Configuration policies defined using a web-based interface or by importing a “known good”
configuration from an existing device
Even in multi-vendor networks and
mixed architectures with multiple
BETTER REAL-TIME VISUALIZATION WITH VISUALRF generations of products, you have a
• Voice overlay displays coverage for voice handsets, including a radio count heat map single view to monitor and manage
• Provides above- and below-floor views for all overlays your entire network.
• Displays edge switches and wiring closets for a full view of the network edge
• “Locate now” button recalculates client locations so you can properly diagnose clients
• “Strobe visible devices” feature allows you to set search criteria and quickly find devices
(APs, users, tags, etc.) from a big group of devices in the area covered on the visible screen
• Provides a tree view that allows for faster navigation through campuses/buildings without
using the map
• “Simulate failure” feature enables “what-if” analysis for proactive coverage planning
• Includes a Location Accuracy Report, which can be used to tune your environment to
improve location accuracy beyond the 10-meter resolution that can generally be achieved
without tuning
 VISUALRF PLAN: FREE STANDALONE PLANNING TOOL DATA SHEET
• Runs on Windows-based laptops and workstations
• Uses the same RF planning and visualization algorithms as the integrated VisualRF feature Highlights: AirWave 7
• Allows plans made offline to be imported into the integrated VisualRF feature and vice versa

BETTER NETWORK PLANNING AND PROVISIONING

• Plan any AP supported by the AirWave Management Platform
• Plan for appropriate cable lengths
• Ensure proper power and data capacity on wired side
• Automatically generates bill of material reports, including wired and wireless components, in
HTML and Microsoft® Word formats to simplify the quote and physical deployment process
• Support for 2007/2010 CAD files in addition to earlier CAD versions and DWG, DWF, and
DFX formats

ROGUE AP CONTAINMENT AND IDS EVENTS

• Manual or automated rogue AP containment with Aruba and Cisco controllers
• Disables switch ports with rogue APs attached
• Manages Aruba and Cisco IDS events from a single, centralized console

EASIER ACCESS TO ACTIONABLE INFORMATION

• Creates customized views for specific roles, such as service desk or CIO
• Users can customize columns displayed in any AirWave table view (show/hide, set column
order)
• Location information included in all lists
• Lets users create and save custom reports
• Exports any list to CSV file
• Users can use any of your report components to build a personalized dashboard on your
AMP home page
• Enhanced XML API provides for a cost-effective way to utilize AirWave data in a variety of
third-party business applications “If a problem interferes
with one of our mission-
MANAGING THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES, ARCHITECTURES AND
PRODUCTS
critical applications, our
• Support for the newest Aruba devices, including the 6xx controller series and AP-105 users don’t care whether
• Full support for Aruba’s latest management capabilities it is caused by the
• Cisco 5500 controller support
• Support for Cisco 6.x firmware
device’s firmware, the
• Support for all HP MSM thin APs and Controller models wireless AP’s signal or a
• 7.x support for Trapeze down switch – they just
want it fixed. With its
new wired infrastructure
and mobile device
management
capabilities, AirWave
delivers the type of user-
centric management
that meets our users’
needs and aligns with
our goal of driving down
IT support costs.”

Greg Catalano
Senior Network Engineer
Boise Inc.

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