Utilizing multiple wireless access points throughout the network provides the performance, coverage, and reliability required by businesses of all sizes.
The Pain Points of Individual Wireless Access Point Management
Despite the coverage benefits provided by placing multiple access points throughout the network, individually configuring and managing these devices can easily overwhelm even large IT teams. Here's why:
- Each Wireless Access Point (WAP) must be configured for security, VLAN, QoS, and other settings. This means logging in, configuring, rebooting, and testing each access point – one at a time.
- The radio frequency (RF) for each wireless access point must be configured in such a way that channels will not overlap with nearby wireless access points. This task can quickly become complex, and often requires expensive equipment and time-consuming site surveys to avoid service interruptions.
- Firmware upgrades, network changes, relocations, and other network management activities can require a complete reconfiguration of each wireless access point.
- Without the network intelligence gained from a singular view of the wireless network, individual wireless access points cannot be properly load balanced. As a result, a surge of clients can quickly overload a single wireless access point.
The Solution
The NETGEAR ProSafe Wireless Management System supports up to 16 wireless access points to provide a single location with which to centrally configure and manage the entire wireless network. The WMS5316 is the ideal solution for businesses and schools with 50-200 users delivering centralized management, load balancing, RF management, and guest access via an intuitive interface – without the complexity and costs that accompany full-service wireless controllers. With a single entry of wireless parameters and security settings that can be simultaneously pushed to all wireless access points on the network, the system dramatically simplifies the deployment and daily management of the wireless network.
The Wireless Management Solution
Designed for ease-of-use, the Wireless Management System includes an intuitive interface, automatically discovers all supported access points in the network, and mimics the set up process of a single access point − for easy, rapid centralized management, load balancing, RF management, and guest access.
Wireless Management Solution
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