Aerohive Launches HiveAP 110 to Extend its 802.11n Portfolio

By Raja Singh Chaudhary

TMCnet Contributor

 

Aerohive (News - Alert) Networks, a provider of cooperative control wireless LAN or ‘WLAN’ architecture, has reportedly announced the new HiveAP 110, a cost-effective single radio dual-band 802.11n access point. The new device offers a relatively cheaper 802.11n solution for environments that do not require dual radio support, such as small retail and hospitality environments, telecommuters and micro branch locations.

According to Brian Eley, technology analyst at Scotmid, an independent co-operative from Scotland, the company was extremely satisfied with its existing Aerohive 802.11n network, and immediately looked to the company when it thought to wireless-enable its retail network.

Eley noted that it makes sense to deploy a controller-less environment from a reliability and economic point of view, but the performance and multi-radio requirements of Scotmid’s distribution center are not necessary as the addition of the single radio HiveAP 110 will provide greater flexibility in co-operative’s retail locations and its lower price point will help the organization meet its budget requirements.


Leveraging the full feature set of Aerohive’s cooperative control technology, which is reportedly considered to be a simple, reliable, flexible, scalable, and cost-effective Wi-Fi solution, the new HiveAP 110 offers a data rate of 300Mbps with a single 802.11n MIMO (2x2) radio and provides the flexibility to be configured to operate in either band, 2.4Ghz or 5GHz, which further provides the opportunity to use the less congested 5GHz band if the clients are all 5GHz capable.

In addition, Aerohive has declared to launch the 3.4r2 release of HiveOS and HiveManager. The new versions offer a number of new features, such as PCI (News - Alert) Controls Report, which offers an easy-to-generate, detailed listing of the relevant data pertaining to PCI requirements.

Walled Garden is a yet another feature that provides an external and out-of-band captive Web portal to be used to authenticate users and authorize access to the network. Through Virtual Access Console, the users now get the ability to get console access via a specialized and temporary SSID, which becomes essential in the event of a networking issue that could render access points stranded.