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April 05, 2011

Aruba Debuts Aruba AirMesh

Offering a scalable and high-performance outdoor mesh portfolio, Aruba Networks has introduced the Aruba AirMesh outdoor wireless solutions portfolio.

To be deployed in a wide variety of outdoor network scenarios, including delivery of data, voice and high-definition (HD) video at oil and gas fields, mining operations, utility management and transportation facilities, the Aruba AirMesh portfolio was designed from the ground up. The uses for the local government include municipal wireless deployments and public safety applications such as video surveillance, mobile data transmission and disaster recovery.

Aruba customers and partners now have an effective way to plan and visualize their Aruba AirMesh deployments in 3D with the newly announced Aruba 3D Outdoor Coverage Planning Tool. It also provides detailed predictions for signal strength at both ends of link, as well as upstream and downstream throughput and channel-specific displays.

“The AirMesh multiservice 802.11n outdoor network portfolio helps ensure that users have reliable coverage and high quality of experience with video, voice and data applications, regardless of their location and in even in extremely harsh environments," said Greg Murphy, vice president of Outdoor Mesh Networking for Aruba. "This not only helps reduce the high cost of fiber cabling, but also gives users coverage when and where they want it.”

Providing RF-aware, Layer-3 network intelligence to optimize traffic flow, reduce latency and ensure resiliency, the Aruba AirMesh portfolio of products features Aruba MeshOS, with Adaptive Wireless Routing (AWR). Significantly improving video quality by reducing packet loss and jitter, Active Video Transport (AVT) optimizes and prioritizes video traffic. AVT can identify video frames at 30 fps, a critical capability in delivery of HD video over multiple hops, the company stated.

Recently, TMC (News - Alert) awarded Aruba Networks’ Remote Access Point (News - Alert) (RAP) as the "2008 Product of the Year," which was presented by Unified Communications magazine. TMC’s Unified Communications (News - Alert) magazine’s product of the year award is awarded to those companies whose products excel in technological innovation and application refinement. Aruba Networks’ (News - Alert) RAP technology is a remote networking software solution, which is designed to connect branch offices, temporary workers and tele-workers to the corporate network.




Raju Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raju’s articles, please visit his columnist page.

Edited by Jennifer Russell
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