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ADTRAN – Bluesocket Virtual Wireless LAN Solutions

With the recent acquisition of Bluesocket, the ADTRAN portfolio expands to deliver industry-leading wireless solutions for enterprise and campus environments.  Bluesocket is the first and only provider of wireless network solutions with virtual control.

Bluesocket's revolutionary virtual wireless LAN solutions are redefining the 802.11n Wi-Fi industry. Combining ADTRAN's powerful enterprise networks portfolio and Bluesocket's innovative solutions will result in the industry's most highly integrated, carrier-class, seamless wireless/wireline end-to-end voice, data, video and mobility solutions with virtual control. These solutions will enable both enterprises and large campuses to realize unprecedented scalability, seamless operations and productivity across their facilities with building-to-building, wireless and wired connectivity. Service providers will also benefit from the unique ability to offer new cloud-based wireless services where both management and control are centralized in a secure data center.

Bluesocket’s Virtual Wireless LAN (vWLAN) - the Power of Virtualization Brought to Wireless Networks!

By taking advantage of virtualization, centralized management, control functions and making it available on a hypervisor, vWLAN removes 100% of the controller hardware, vastly reducing capital costs and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for an enterprise.

In traditional controller-based networks, the network design revolves around number of APs, users, and aggregate bandwidth. All of this goes away in a “virtual WLAN” solution. Rather than operating on single purpose controllers, a virtual WLAN operates as a piece of downloadable software on a hypervisor.  Scalability is now only limited by the size of the data center capacity. 

vWLAN Features and Benefits:

• Add more users, additional access points, even more locations without adding control hardware.
• Eliminate the cost and constraints of a physical controller.
• Base your WLAN on the scale and reliability of your data center.
• Eliminate mobility seams caused by multiple controllers.
• Control is freed from the LAN, making cloud control possible.
• Access points discover the control software and automatically self-configure upon installation.
• Enforce network security at the edge.
• VMware Ready - the first and only WLAN Solution with control based on VMware