Transforming the Workplace with Wireless Mobility
Faced with ever growing pressure to transform working practices and increase efficiency and responsiveness to the public, many government agencies are now beginning to roll-out wireless LANs as a strategic component of their networking strategy.

In the past, they have sacrificed the potential productivity benefits of wireless mobility because of concerns about wireless security. However, recent developments with IEEE 802.11 and Wi-Fi Alliance standards have dramatically improved baseline security available on 802.11 based wireless LANs, making it completely safe to deploy enterprise-grade wireless LANs as an overlay on any government network.

8100.2 Compliance
Today, all modern PCs and most enterprise-grade WLAN infrastructure supports the minimum standards advocated by the DODD 8100.2, first published in 2004. In fact, since March 2006 in order to become Wi-Fi certified every device must support WPA2 which includes AES encryption.

Beyond Baseline WLAN Security with WIPS/WIDS
Because of tremendous pressure to solve the security concerns of the past, wireless networks are now regarded by many industry analysts as more secure than their equivalent wired networks. But just like in warfare, defending your borders is often not enough.

Baseline wireless security is intended to prevent unauthorized users gaining access to the network, and includes basic support to prevent rogue access points from being used. But very little attention is paid to detecting intrusion attempts and taking counter measures to sabotage the attacker or simply to get forensic evidence that helps you trace the source of the attacks or prevent them occurring in future. This is the domain of Wireless Intrusion Detection and Wireless Intrusion Prevention. Trapeze leads the way in this area through its tight integration at the hardware level and management level with AirDefense.

Safest and most scaleable Guest Access
Guest access is one of the most prevalent uses of wireless among enterprises but most solutions offer little or no control over who is using it—or when, where, and how it is being used. The proliferation and explosive growth of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile Internet devices such as the Apple iPhone—which continuously seek out and connect to any available Wi-Fi network—is quickly increasing the problem of uncontrolled wireless guest access. Not all of these devices will necessarily support IEEE 802.11i security standards, and they won’t necessarily all support endpoint secure clients. That means it will be critical that these devices have limited access to corporate networking resources.

Most vendor solutions have failed to lock down and control guest access, putting critical networked resources at risk. Trapeze SmartPass creates a whole new standard for safe, secure, easy-to-use guest access over wireless LANs.

Higher productivity and lower operating cost
From the most basic requirements of guest access and “convenience wireless” in meeting rooms, to being able to rapidly set up and tear-down temporary networks, wireless LANs can enable massive productivity benefits. Unfortunately many organizations are not fully realizing the potential of wireless LANs, because they are too complex to plan, configure, optimize and monitor. Trapeze Networks solves these problems with its award-winning RingMaster management suite, designed to provide the most advanced predictive planning and off-line configuration capabilities in the industry.