1. RM Managed Wireless Brian Andrews Senior Product Manager

2. Wireless within Education Computers and Internet used daily –Curriculum –Administration Ubiquitous network access –Throughout the school –Across the LA area Growing number of wireless clients –Staff phone within the classroom –Student portable devices Increased demand on security –Student network safety –School resources

3. Schools WLAN Requirements Low deployment and operations costs –Minimal IT and RF expertise required –Simple to deploy indoors or outdoors –Simplified district-wide management Secure access and user segregation –Satisfy regulatory requirements –Separate students, teachers, admin, guests Extended operational life-span –Must last 5+ years, and handle traffic growth –Immune to evolving standards and higher data rates –Ability to support new applications over time Voice, Streaming video, Surveillance, Location

4. WLANs enable New Services New teaching methods –Distance learning, Podcasts, Blogs –Teach anywhere, even outside –Not dependent on lab availability Improved teacher productivity –Attendance, Grading –Curriculum development –Professional development –Internal communication Improved security and safety –Wireless voice services –Video surveillance over IP –Location tracking

5. RM Managed Wireless Goals Reliable –Fundamental part of the School infrastructure –Eliminate downtime and disruption to learning Safe and secure –Secure network access –Identify and correct rogue activity Flexible management –Zero maintenance for small schools –Monitored and controlled centrally for LA wide deployment High performance –Deliver educational benefits to students and staff –Available throughout the school whenever required Commercially viable for Education –Low Operational Cost –Investment protection Allow for future growth –Easy, flexible and secure Guest access –Advanced location tracking of individuals and equipment

6. RM Managed Wireless Solution Controllers Management Security Location Access Points

7. Controller Scalability 32-192 Access Points 16 FastEthernet (10/100) PoE 2 x 1 GB SFP 12 Access Points 8 FastEthernet (10/100) (2 PoE) 4 Access Points 2 FastEthernet (10/100) (1 PoE) Library/PrimarySecondary/Academy/CollegeLA Data Center Cost / Capacity 512 Access Points 2 x 10GB XFP 8 x 1GB SFP, RJ45 32-192 Access Points 2 x 1 GB SFP

8. RM Managed Wireless Goals Reliability Performance Safe & Secure Manageable Cost Effective Growth

9. Reliability Standard reliability measures –Low MTBF AP Controller ‘virtualization’ –LA based controller for resiliency Single point of management –Large geographic area monitored and controlled Multiple load-balancing levels –Users –APs –Controllers No single point of failure In-service upgrade –Minimise disruption

10. N : 1 Failover Management –Load-shared AAA server groups –Local and/or remote AAA –Distributed MX database –RingMaster redundancy Controllers –Dual hot-swap power –Load balanced uplinks –N:1 Controller failover Access Points –RF auto-tuning –Radio load balancing –Dual homed uplinks Device Resiliency RingMaster AAA RingMaster

11. RM Managed Wireless Goals Reliability Performance Safe & Secure Manageable Cost Effective Growth

12. RM Managed Wireless Goals Performance Safe & Secure Manageable Cost Effective Growth

13. High Performance Key issues –Optimum voice support –QoS preservation –‘Local’ access to data –Scale to 802.11n throughputs –Band-steering capability

14. Local Switching Capability Distributed Switching Most direct path –Optimal data flow –Extremely low latency Optimized for Voice Over IP –High quality calls –Eliminates dropped calls

15. Local switching eases scalability Handles 802.11n without upgrade.11n Offered load increases by up to 10x.11n Traffic forwarding –Handled by the AP 802.11n –No impact on controller –Scales without upgrade

16. Balancing Resources Most Wi-Fi devices default to 2.4Ghz (better range) –Increases contention for spectrum, while 5Ghz virtually unused WLAN improved by steering 5Ghz-capable clients to 802.11a/n –Provides 30-40% better bandwidth utilisation with no cost 802.11b/g 802.11a

17. Dynamic Load Balancing Clients tend to collect on same AP –But often the client is in range of other APs that are idle APs collaborate to balance client load more evenly –Takes account of global load-balancing policies

18. RM Managed Wireless Goals Performance Safe & Secure Manageable Cost Effective Growth

19. RM Managed Wireless Goals Safe & Secure Manageable Cost Effective Growth

20. Safety and Security Key Issues –Secure session mobility –System-wide fast handoffs between APs –Standards compliant –Identity-based networking –Built-in Firewall and Intrusion Detection System –Endpoint Integrity integration –Safe and scaleable guest access –Location-aware access control –Dynamic authorisations

21. AAA Secure, Identity-Based Roaming User credentials define access and network resource privileges Different groups with different privileges share infrastructure Privileges and services follow users as they roam Overlay on Layer 2/3 network –No VLAN / Subnet changes Central Policies User roams 1 Credentials & services follow user 2

22. Strong Encryption Security AAA Servers Rogue AP Trusted Client X X Authentication 802.1X, EAP-TLS, PEAP, TTLS, MAC, Web 802.11i, WPA2, WPA, AES, CCMP Endpoint Integrity Trusted Network Connect (Trusted Computing Group) Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP) Network Admission Control (NAC) Intrusion Protection Core WIDS/WIPS Scan, detect, locate, disable Rogues Location aware access control 802.1X Authentication RingMaster Intrusion Detection & Protection Application Firewall Per user, per station, per group policy enforcement Application-aware QoS scheduling Time and location based access control Guests Location Tracker Rogue User

23. RM Managed Wireless Goals Safe & Secure Manageable Cost Effective Growth

24. RM Managed Wireless Goals Manageable Cost Effective Growth

25. Network Management Planning and Deployment –Predictive planning tool –Creates network plan Configuration and Verification –Complete offline configuration –System and service wizards –Pushes configuration to MXs Monitoring and Reporting –By user, radio, AP, Controller, VLAN –Present location, roaming history –30 day history –WIDS/WIPS integration Advanced Location tracking

26. LA Central Management Plan entire buildings Supports CAD files with pre-configured layers 3 dimensional model takes account of other floors Auto computes attenuation based on building properties Auto generated wireless coverage map and work order Predictive planning

27. LA Central Management Easy two-click configuration Powerful wizards – Voice, security, switch configuration Cluster-based configuration management Network wide change management All possible as in-service upgrades Predictive planning Network-wide Deployment

28. LA Central Management Dashboard view Network wide fault correlation and location Drill down to details 1 hour to 30 day reporting End user custom reports Predictive planning Network-wide Deployment Comprehensive Monitoring

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30. RM Managed Wireless Goals Cost Effective Growth

31. Easy Network Deployment Wireless Network Non-disruptive overlay –Same security model –Same L2 / L3 topology –Same VLANs / Subnets –Zero changes required Industry standard security –Same directory / AAA –Active Directory, LDAP –All major RADIUS servers –802.1X authentication –WPA, WPA2 certified –AES CCMP encryption Flexible Deployment Models Wired Network

32. Same Solution Indoor/Outdoor Indoor/Outdoor WLAN Self-optimizing and load balancing Distributed policy enforcement Single management platform Seamless indoor/outdoor roaming Best performance Lowe operating costs Common Feature Set Indoor / Outdoor

33. Flexible Deployment Options Cost effective controllers for small schools –Primary, Library –Failover to LA based controllers Controller-less schools option –LA managed controller –Local switching model Remote management –Value-add from the LA –Eliminates burden from school

34. Maximise Investment Load balancing uses WLAN resources better Capable of best in class voice services Scales easily to 802.11n with no controller upgrades Easiest to manage school district from one point Fully standards compliant from RF to Voice

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37. Managed Wireless Architecture Thin AP Architecture Security Management Reliability Performance Fat AP Architecture Security Management Reliability Performance Central & Distributed Security Management Reliability Performance CENTRALIZED DISTRIBUTED

38. Location Tracking Find assets and staff quickly –Laptops, PDAs, Phones, Tags, Wi-Fi enabled devices

39. Modular Guest Access Are you who you claim to be? MAC Address, User ID, Password, Keys AuthenticationEnd Point Integrity Can your device be trusted? Virus definitions, Firewall, Encryption Are you who you claim to be? Can your device be trusted? What access have you been granted? Time-of-day, Location, Bandwidth, Apps Access Control Advanced Conventional

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