Still others feel bombarded by complex and often
contradictory information about the rapidly developing
WLAN market segment. This market overflows with
a wide range of WLAN technologies, products and
architectures such as "fat" access points, "thin" access
points with WLAN controllers and other approaches.
A related challenge is navigating the confusing
marketplace of various vendors, many of whom lack
the longevity and trusted brands that enterprises seek
to safeguard their investments.
Another challenge is that wireless networks have for
the most part evolved separately from wired networks.
As a result, even networking vendors that offer both
wired and wireless equipment and network
management products have sold them as two separate
"tracks," leaving much of the coordination up to
individual customers.
All enterprises, regardless of their stage of WLAN
adoption, want clear answers about which mobility
solutions to deploy, as well as when and where to deploy
them. And as organizations begin to rely on WLANs as
they now rely on wired LANs, they increasingly care
about the security, ease of deployment, session
persistence, quality of service and — perhaps most
importantly — ease of management of their entire
mobility infrastructure once it is in place.
ProCurve Offers a Unified Approach
All ProCurve products and solutions — both wired
and wireless — share the foundation of the ProCurve
Adaptive EDGE Architecture (AEA), a cohesive vision
designed to best meet network infrastructure needs both
today and in the future. The ProCurve Adaptive EDGE
Architecture approach is to push intelligence to the edge
of the network, where users connect, enabling command
from the center with control to the edge.
The ProCurve AEA foundation led to the ProCurve
Adaptive Networks vision, an approach to network
infrastructures that can significantly boost
organizations' ability to compete effectively in the face of
rapid change. By being adaptive to users, to applications
and to organizations, Adaptive Networks fortify security,
increase productivity and reduce complexity across the
organization.