Overview

Brocade IronPoint Wireless Location Manager (WLM) provides the capability to simultaneously track the physical location of thousands of 802.11 based wireless devices including laptops/PDAs with WiFi cards, wireless VoIP handsets, 802.11 based RFID tags, rogue access points and rogue clients in real time by utilizing the Brocade IP200 access points and RF Sensors. WLM delivers a new level of visibility and manageability of the RF infrastructure and adds an advanced layer of security which can detect, alert and pinpoint the location of rogue access points and unauthorized wireless clients in the wireless infrastructure. WLM also takes snapshots of the airwave to accurately display the current RF statistics such as access point coverage and channel interference.

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Features

Real time detection and location tracking

• Track physical location of thousands of wireless devices simultaneously in real time
• Quick detection and mitigation of rogue access points and unauthorized wireless clients greatly enhances wireless security
• Visualization of the wireless network improves management of the wireless infrastructure.
• Easy measurement of client density, trend analysis and statistics provide accurate wireless capacity management

Automatic alerts & real time reporting based on location

• Monitor a variety of specific events, alarms and potential wireless network security violations
• Users can create alert zones on specific regions – alerts can be generated when a device is positioned within an zone or outside a zone
• Real time reporting allows the user to generate a report with customizable options and then immediately view the resulting report

Contour Map

• The Contour Map view displays a 2D signal strength heatmap, shown in dB or dBm depending on the type of graph generated
• Visualize RF statistics such as total coverage, AP coverage and AP interference on a given snapshot of the actual wireless network
• RF coverage/interference issues can be verified remotely – no need to send IT staff with mobile devices to analyze the change in coverage and interference

Virtual shield

• Setup specific regions which wireless clients are allowed access to the wireless network
• Wireless clients are denied access if located outside of the allowed region even though they can 'see' the wireless network
• Very effective way to limit wireless use outside of corporate premises

Hierarchical map structure with easy site and level management

• Quick and easy placement of APs and RF Sensors across multiple floors, buildings and sites
• Drag and drop RF sensors and access points from various floors to another floor
• Flexible and easy deployment – A single floor is typically configured and deployed in minutes

Intuitive device management

• All wireless devices in the RF infrastructure are automatically categorized
• User can assign customized names to devices for targeted tracking or asset naming
• Makes viewing thousands of devices easy

Visual AP/Client management

• Graphically displays which wireless client is associated to which AP
• Displays additional information such as security, RSSI and distance

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System Requirements

• OS version Windows: 2003 Server (SP1)
• Windows XP Professional Edition (SP2)
• Windows 2000 Server (SP1)
• Windows 2000 (SP4)
• CPU and Speed: Pentium 4 class 2.4GHz or greater
• RAM Requirement: 1 GB or greater
• Video Card Requirement: AGP 4X or PCI-E Video card with 32 MB or greater memory, DirectX 9.0 support
• Display: XGA (1024x768) minimum, UXGA (1600x1200) recommended
• Connection: 1 Ethernet NIC
• Disk Requirement: 40GB or greater

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Literature

Datasheets

• IronPoint Wireless Location Manager Datasheet (PDF 760K)

White Papers

• Leveraging the Advantages of a Multi-vendor Network Strategy (PDF 181K)
• WPA & Funk Odyssey Installation Guide (PDF 1.34MB)
• WPA & MS IAS Installation Guide (PDF 1.80MB)
• Dynamic VLAN Installation Guide (PDF 1.29MB)

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