
Edge
Enterasys Product Product Features Business Benefits Unique Selling Points
Enterasys Wireless
High-performance,
Enterprise-class WLANs
Access Points and
Controllers
• Supports 802.11a/b/g/n
• Provides full 802.11n functionality
using current 802.3af PoE
infrastructure
• Integrated wireless intrusion
prevention/detection functionality
• Indoor/outdoor/industrial wireless
applications
• Optimized for enterprise wide voice,
video, and data applications
• Intelligent access points enable private
and public cloud deployment models
as well as self-managed and managed
wireless services operational models
• Flexible, solutions-oriented
architecture allows definition of traffic
handling behavior on a per-application
basis for optimal performance, quality
of service, and reliability
• Increases mobile worker productivity
while lowering deployment and
management cost/complexity
• Integrated wired/wireless management
and security with anytime, anywhere
network-wide visibility and control,
optimal network utilization and
automated response to wireless threats
• Recognized industry leadership for
providing full 802.11n functionality
using today’s standard 802.3af PoE
infrastructures, enabling cost savings and
easier migration to 802.11n
• Integrated wireless intrusion prevention
(WIPS) protects against next-generation
threats
• APs provide simultaneous operation
as AP and sensor, driving operational
efficiencies and reducing costs
• Competes favorably with Cisco Aironet
and Aruba Networks
Network Access
Control (NAC)
Identity-based NAC with
IPS and SIEM Integration
• Open, standards-based in-line, out-
of-band appliances and out-of-band
virtual appliance
• Supports multi-vendor edge
switches in both wired and wireless
environments
• Managed guest access control with
sponsorship
• Full NAC functionality for both pre-
and post-connect modes
• Protects corporate data by proactively
preventing unauthorized users,
compromised endpoints, and other
vulnerable systems from accessing the
network
• Enables users to self-remediate and
re-attempt access without help desk
involvement
• Works with third-party and Enterasys
switches, routers and wireless access
points to enable maximum leverage of
existing infrastructure and expertise
• Enables strong security with granular
access control based on user, device,
time, location and authentication type
• Includes automated guest access control
• Investment protection via wide
interoperability with third party switches,
assessment servers, authentication
servers, and software agents
• Provides continuous and persistent
monitoring/enforcement across all key
NAC functions: detection, authentication,
assessment, authorization, and
remediation
• Competes favorably with Cisco
NAC Appliance
IPS and SIEM
Patented Distributed
Intrusion Prevention and
Security Information &
Event Management
• Award-winning network- and host-
based intrusion prevention
• Integrated support for signature
matching, protocol decode, behavioral
analysis, and anomaly detection
• High visibility with real-time reporting
and historical forensics
• Patented Distributed Intrusion
Prevention blocks attackers at the
source physical port
• Automatically identifies and responds
to threats in real-time across multi-
vendor wired and wireless networks to
protect high-value assets
• Ensures confidentiality, integrity,
and availability of business-
critical resources at leading price/
performance points
• Delivers actionable information from
high volumes of network and security
event logs to provide efficiency for
security management operations and
compliance reporting
• Goes beyond typical IPS functionality by
locating, containing, and removing the
source of the attack from the network
• Provides behavioral analysis and a
unified real-time view of the threat
landscape to automate detection,
isolation, and remediation
• Competes favorably with Cisco IDS/IPS
sensors and ArcSight an HP Company
Network
Management
System (NMS)
Suite of network
management applications
• Centralized visibility and granular
control of enterprise wired and wireless
network resources
• Easy to use graphical web-based
interface for streamlined network
analysis, problem solving, help desk
visibility and reporting
• Automatic detection and service
provisioning for any user, application
or IP node
• Integration with other IT applications
and management for third party devices
• Anytime, anywhere management from
popular mobile devices
• Manages more with less – reduces
network cost of ownership and
operations
• Maximizes the value of Enterasys
networking solutions and assures that
network operations are aligned with the
business, operationally efficient and
secure
• Provides the fastest response times with
anytime, anywhere troubleshooting
• Enables easy policy enforcement
network-wide for QoS, bandwidth,
etc. ensuring the availability of today’s
bandwidth intensive applications
• Unified wired/wireless management
reduces tool complexity
• Highly automated capabilities increase
efficiency, enabling IT staff to avoid time-
consuming manual switch-by-switch
configuration tasks
• Unique end system awareness and
granularity that reaches beyond ports
and VLANs down to individual users,
applications, and protocols
• Streamlined workflows with open API that
integrate with other IT applications
Delivering on our promises. On-time. On-budget.
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