With employees spending an ever-increasing amount of time away from their desks, organisations are increasingly seeking to deploy appropriate networks that allow real-time access to the corporate network anywhere within the workplace.

Wireless technologies free your business from the need to use wired cables to connect your company's network and offer your employees the flexibility to work from anywhere they need to. Work is no longer limited to a specific place.  

Employees who do not have access to a company network become unproductive as time is wasted. By connecting mobile workers to your network you can enable them to sustain a seamless workflow when out of the office, making their jobs easier and more effective.

With wireless LANs, users can access e-mail, company resources or the Internet anywhere and anytime. From an IT perspective, wireless has enormous benefits and is affordable and practical, eliminating the need to install expensive infrastructures. In buildings where it is impossible to install cabling or where circumstances make it difficult (such as shared occupancies) wireless LANs are a fast and easy way of bringing the benefits of network access to more people.

Wireless Portfolio

The number of workers who are conducting business away from their desks is rapidly growing each day. HiPath Wireless is a complete enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) portfolio that provides an enterprise-wide foundation for mobility, enabling these people to communicate wherever they are, whenever they need to. Open Mobility Solutions are built on this foundation to empower the mobile workforce:
HiPath Wireless networks are centrally configured, monitored and managed from anywhere - totally independent from the underlying IP infrastructure - providing an unprecedented ease of deployment and use.

Siemens leverages third party technologies and products to provide the widest possible range of certified mobile business solutions, using the globally-recognized HiPath Ready designation. To make solution integration even easier, a suite of open APIs are available to partners and customers.

Siemens voice leadership ensures that mobility solutions can be easily deployed with rich multimedia capabilities. Siemens has also integrated 'best-in-class' wireless security and compliance reporting, giving users the confidence to deploy mobility solutions anywhere.
Only Siemens has the vision and ability to deliver on the promise of enterprise mobility and help you to maximize the business value of wireless LAN technology. By enabling the efficient deployment of tightly integrated Open Mobility Solutions, HiPath Wireless can help your organization through enhanced business processes, faster communication, and improved productivity.

HiPath Wireless Features and Benefits

Manageability

• “ Plug-and-Play” Access Point deployment and software updates provides centralized control and high scalability
• HiPath Wireless Assistant provides intuitive centralised element management for each Controller
• Virtual Networks Services (VNS) perform logical segmentation of users, devices, or applications in a centralized manner that is considerably more efficient than using VLANs
• HiPath Wireless Manager offers multi-Controller management with detailed statistics, charts, and reports for enhanced network monitoring and control
• HiPath Wireless Manager HiGuard produces RF "heat maps" and location services that add a visual dimension to wireless network management, making it easier to locate threats or track mobile assets.

Security

• Use of the most sophisticated authentication and encryption standards, including 802.11i, WEP, WPA, WPAv2, 802.1x, and RADIUS
• HiPath Wireless Manager HiGuard delivers sophisticated wireless intrusion prevention (WIPS) that proactively keeps the airspace free from intruders
• Seamless integration with wireline VPNs, including IPSec, PPTP, or L2TP
• The intuitive Captive Portal presents guest users with a secure web authentication page before getting access to the network.

Voice

• Certified 802.11e and WMM Quality of Service and the latest standards-based voice features ensure the highest performance when integrating voice and multimedia services with the data network
• Fast and secure roaming and handover ensure that voice users can freely move throughout the wireless network

• The OFI architecture gives Access Points the ability to intelligently forward traffic in order to optimize sensitive real-time applications like voice or video.

Solutions Integration

• The HiPath Ready certification program provides HiPath Wireless customers access to a global ecosystem of certified Open Mobility Solutions
• The HiPath Wireless Open Services Framework enables custom solution integration through an open API suite
• HiPath Wireless Manager Advanced Services modules provide integrated applications to enable the latest wireless solutions.

Cisco Aironet

Cisco provides a rich portfolio of wireless networking solutions designed to increase employee productivity, enhance collaboration, and improve responsiveness between employees, partners, and customers. This solution supports real-time business-critical applications and creates a secure, mobile, interactive workplace so that organizations can exceed customer expectations, outpace their competitors, and realize a measurable return on investment.