With increasingly stringent Sarbanes-Oxley requirements and other regulatory standards, large enterprises must maintain extremely tight controls over the configuration of their network infrastructure. AirWave's automated compliance audit feature automatically compares the configuration of every device to your policy -- and generates a high-priority alert whenever a variance is detected. You can even instruct the software to automatically correct the settings as soon as the violation is detected.

An average Fortune 1000 organization has over 500 separate physical locations -- and the largest enterprises may have thousands. As the wireless network extends its reach into all these locations, the IT staff in the NOC may be thousands of miles away. AirWave's remote monitoring and configuration capabilities allow problems to be diagnosed and addressed quickly -- without having to dispatch a technician.

In a large corporation, there are literally dozens of IT staff members from different teams who need to use the wireless management solution. Each has a different role -- and should be permitted to view different information. The Help Desk in North America should see performance reports and monitoring screens from North America, but does not need to see information from Europe. And the qualified network engineer should be permitted to make configuration changes to devices, while the Help Desk should not. AirWave's flexible role-based administrative access solution allows you to tailor each individual's level of access for his or her specific role in your organization.

As wireless networks expand, enterprises are using multiple different wireless technologies to provide reliable, cost-effective coverage -- from 'thin' APs in corporate headquarters, autonomous APs in small remote offices, and even mesh networks outdoors and indoors in hard-to-cable areas. No matter how many different technologies are used, AMP provides a single console for integrated management.

Large enterprises make take many years to fully deploy a wireless network -- from initial test networks in IT's labs until wireless has reached every facility worldwide. In this time, wireless hardware vendors may have move through several product generations. For example, many Cisco customers who were using IOS-based Aironet access points in their early installations have begun to migrate to the LWAPP architecture in newer deployments.  AirWave provides robust support for both state-of-the-art current generation products as well as legacy support dating back to the earliest days of Wi-Fi -- allowing enterprises to extend the life of their hardware infrastructure by years.

On the wired network, the enterprise IT staff often finds itself managing multiple brands of networking equipment simultanesouly. And the wireless network is no different. IT may select different products for specific environments. Or individual divisions conduct their own evaluations and buying decisions. And the rapidly growing number of corporate mergers means that two organizations with diverse infrastructures combine overnight to create an even more heterogeneous network. Because AirWave supports most leading brands of wireless hardware, no matter how diverse the network becomes the enterprise IT organization can manage and control it from a single console.

A large enterprise network can easily reach 25,000+ access points, so scalability is critical. With the AirWave Master Console, no matter how big the wireless network grows, you still have one integrated console for monitoring and management.

No large corporation can tolerate rogue access points. Yet, with hundreds or thousands of locations, it is extremely difficult to police the network to ensure that your employees aren;t connecting APs without your knowledge or permission. IDS systems with hardware sensors may take years to deploy in thousands of locations. AirWave's RAPIDS module, with wired network scanning, makes it easy to detect rogues anywhere on the network without proprietary sensors.