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December 04, 2007
Bluesocket Announces Wireless LAN Architecture, WiFi Access Point
By Greg Galitzine, Group Editorial Director
This morning, Bluesocket, Inc., announced several new initiatives. The company is touting its next-generation integrated architecture and a brand-new, second-generation 802.11n Access Point ( News - Alert).
According to company officials, the Virtual Wireless LAN  (vWLAN) architecture is designed to unify wireless and existing wired networks to produce a truly integrated and optimized networking solution. Among the key benefits, Bluesocket ( News - Alert) says the solution will allow customers to “dramatically reduce the cost of deploying and operating large-scale WiFi networks while providing wired-equivalent performance for wireless users, with seamless roaming and enterprise-class security and policy management.”
According to Mike Braatz, Bluesocket’s vice president of marketing, there are currently two camps, when it comes to handling the increase in traffic borne over wireless networks.
One way is to build bigger wireless controllers to handle the throughput. By deploying a solution based on a centralized architecture the user adds capital and operating costs and unnecessarily increases network complexity and creates a performance bottleneck, especially at 802.11n data rates.
The other camp sees an opportunity to take advantage of the wired network for throughput, while using the wireless for data control, security, policy management, and the like.
Key elements of the vWLAN solution from Bluesocket include:
- A complete separation of the data and control planes. All data will be routed over the wired infrastructure, not through the WiFi (News - Alert) controllers.
- New vMAC (virtual MAC) capability will hide session routing complexity from both wireless and wired clients helping to deliver seamless roaming across APs and subnets.
- New AP software will implement vMAC and add both intelligent roaming tunnel capability, QoS Policing, and a stateful firewall to the access points. The APs will handle establishment of roaming tunnels over the existing wired network, and enforce user- and flow-level policy.
- New controller software that focuses on control plane functionality will assist APs in rapidly establishing L3 roaming tunnels between non-adjacent APs and APs on different subnets for seamless roaming with fast hand-off for VoIP and FMC applications.
According to company officials, the solution will be available by mid-2008, and for existing customers it will be available as a simple software upgrade.
In addition to the vWLAN architecture, Bluesocket announced the introduction of its 802.11n draft 2.0 Access Point, the BSAP-1800. The new AP will be available in early 2008. According to Bluesocket officials, the BSAP-1800 is the first product with second generation MIMO (multiple input multiple output) antenna technology.
The BSAP-1800 includes two 11n radios — 802.11a/b/g/n and 802.11b/g/n — with support for up to 64 clients and 8 virtual APs per radio. Also, the BSAP-1800 is designed to support the 802.3af power standard with a single-port Power-over-Ethernet (Poe) solution, which will save deployment costs by eliminating the need to draw extra power to each access point.
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Greg Galitzine (News - Alert) is editorial director of TMCnet. To read more of Greg’s articles, please visit his columnist page. Local Area Network (LAN) | X | | There is much more to LANs to explain on a few words. Pleases refer to TECHtionary.com for a vast set of tutorials on this subject. LAN connections use 48-bit MAC addresses permanently fixed into th...more |
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(source: http://internetcommunications.tmcnet.com/topics/broadband-mobile/articles/15766-bluesocket-announces-wireless-lan-architecture-wifi-access-point.htm)
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