LAN3 are the UK's leading Platinum Partner with Aerohive Networks. Our customer installation base covers Education, Corporate, Emergency Services and NHS Trusts. LAN365 (the Service Division of LAN3) provides excellent pre and post-sales support for all their installations, these included: Virtual site surveys, onsite surveys, cabling, configuration, support and remote monitoring.

Aerohive has introduced an innovative new class of wireless infrastructure equipment called a Cooperative Control Access Point (CC-AP). A CC-AP combines an enterprise-class access point with a suite of cooperative control protocols and functions to provide all of the benifits of a controller-based wireless LAN solution, but without requiring a controller or an overlay network. Aerohive Networks implementation of a CC-AP is called HiveAP.

This cooperative control functionality enables multiple HiveAP's to be organised into groups, or "hives", that share control information between HiveAPs to enable functions like fast layer 2/3 roaming, cooperative RF management, security and mesh networking. This capability enables a next generation wireless LAN architecture, called a 'cooperative control wireless LAN architecture', to provide all the benifits of a controller based architecture but is easier to deploy and expand, lower cost, more reliable, more scalable, more ubiquitously deployable, higher performing and more suitable for voice over wireless LAN than today's controller based architectures.

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HiveAP's discover each other whether they are connected over a wired network, or wirelessly. When neighbours are found with the same hive or mobility credentials, they can build secure connections to each other. Once the neighbour relationships have been established between HiveAP's, they use cooperative control protocols to provide seamless mobility, cooperative RF management, resiliency and best path forwarding.

The Aerohive Access Point family:

HiveAP 120 - 802.11 a/b/g/n - 1 x 10/100/1000 (2x2 antenna)

HiveAP 170 - 802.11 a/b/g/n Outdoor - 1 x 10/100/1000 (2x2 antenna)

HiveAP 320 - 802.11 a/b/g/n - 2 x 10/100/1000 (3x3 antenna)

HiveAP 330 - 802.11 a/b/g/n - 2 x 10/100/1000 (3x3 antenna)

HiveAP 340 - 802.11 a/b/g/n - 2 x 10/100/1000 (3x3 antenna)

HiveAP 350 - 802.11 a/b/g/n - 2 x 10/100/1000 (3x3 antenna)

BR100 Router - 802.11 a/b/g/n - 4 x 10/100/1000, 1 x WAN (1x1 antenna)

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HiveManager provides the managment of the wireless solution and offers real-time topology, performance, and client information to simplify troubleshooting, capacity planning, and security remediation of both WLANs and remote office networks. HiveManager also enables customer access policies based on identity and device type. Because it is not essential to the flow of traffic, losing connectivity to HiveManager will not affect any control or data forwarding features of your Aerohive WLAN or remote office.

HiveManager - Central Management System (Hardware/software)

HiveManager Online - Central Management System (Cloud)

For more information or to arrange a demostration or a meeting with an LAN3 Aerohive representative, please contact sales@lan3.co.uk or visit www.aerohive.com