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NetGlide NetGlide Product Family Overview Product Family Overview
2nd Generation 3rd Generation 4th Generation1st Generation
• Consumer WiFi
• Consumer-Grade WiFi Routers
• Minimal Security
• Enterprise WiFi• Limited Security
• “Fat” Stand-Alone APs
• AP's not networked• Security not
robust
• Centrally-Managed, Enterprise WiFi
• Improved Security
• Thin APs, Controller Managed
• Cell Planning Required
• Interference Prone• Poor VoFi
Operation• Deployment of
802.11n requires significant changes to network
• Portability, Not Mobility
Functionality
Paradigm
MajorShortcomings
• Multi-Application, Ubiquitous WiFi
• Coordinated AP transmissions
The Evolution to Fourth Generation WiFi
Technical backgroundTechnical background
Co-Channel Interference Edge Users Roaming
Bandwidth Limitation Of Cell Based System
Radio channels are a scarce resource – use them wisely
Make each channel’s bandwidth available everywhere
Bandwidth Limitation Of Cell Based System
Interference-Free™ Architecture
The channel blanket is formed from the aggregate coverage of all the APs
APs operate on the same channel(s) to create the channel blanket
The Switch completely controls the APs, preventing co-channel interference
The AP is only a radio/antenna; no software, no configuration; no IP address, no processing
The Client associates with the switch, not the AP; the APs are simply conduits between the client and the switch
Uplink in the Channel Blanket
Uplink path diversity Multiple APs “hear” the client Switch receives multiple copies of the same transmission, and selects the
best one – making the uplink resilient to disruption on any one individual link
Seamless zero-latency mobility As the client moves, different APs receive the uplink transmission - this is
transparent to the client and no handoff event ever occurs Elimination of client balancing problem that exists in cell-based WLAN
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Netronics Wireless LAN
Total Mobility Robust In Any Environment Multi-Service Convergence True Dual-Band 802.11n Slashes the Complexity of Wireless and Networking
A Different Picture for Radically Different Results
NetGlide
Cell / Virtual Cell Based
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Channel Blanket No Cell Planning Complexity Robust Connection Zero-Latency Mobility Client Consistency
Layer Any Mix of Channels, Modes and Band, from the Same Set of APs
Stacked Capacity Built-In QoS Dedicated Security
“Simply a Better Way to Wireless”
Dramatic reduction in networking complexity
The NetGlide Experience
Guaranteed Performance Move from “Best-Efforts” WLAN to Guaranteed Performance
metrics
Surprising Simplicity Take away the complexity of RF
Total Mobility Voice demands true mobility – without it, convergence cannot
succeed
Voice, Data, & Video Without Trade-Offs One infrastructure investment, many uses, serving different users
with predictable quality of service
802.11n 2.4 GHz Scenario
Today’s 3 non-overlapping channels collapse down to 1 x 40MHz and 1 x 20MHz channel
“Full-performance” ‘n’ (i.e. the 300Mbps promise) requires a 40MHz-wide channel, with only ‘n’ clients Mixing ‘g’ clients with ‘n’ on the same channel reduces throughput
by 4X! 20MHz wide channels provide half the data rate as 40MHz channels
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Ch 1 Ch 6 Ch 11
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Today
802.11n/g40MHz width 20MHz width
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b/g
n/g
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Cell 1: 40MHz n/g cell
Cell 2: 20MHz n/g cell
Blanket 1: 40MHz “pure n” blanket
Blanket 2: 20MHz legacy b/g blanket
Mission Impossible:Not enough channels for cell planning
Business as Usual:Enterprise-wide 802.11n + g/b WLAN
Advantage Netronics in 2.4 GHz Band
Netronics is the only technology capable of supporting full-performance 802.11n clients and permanent co-existence with full-performance 802.11b/g clients, all in the same AP deployment.
Cell-planning is not viable – insufficient channels for channel planning.
Multiple WLANs in One means the only disruption-free, gradual introduction of full-performance ‘N’ in the enterprise
Netronics 802.11n The Channel Blanket™ Comes of Age
2.4GHz ‘n’
2.4GHz ‘b/g’
5GHz ’n’5GHz ‘a’ or
Rogue Monitor
Data
Voice
Multimedia
Locationing
Any combination of channels, bands, modes, & security
Throughput
Again and again, customers report how migration to NetGlide’s channel blanket solved their WLAN
throughput problems.
NetGlide Products
WLAN Switches Access Points
Management & Planning Accessories
Continuing Our Technology Leadership: NetGlide –UTAP3nWorld’s First 3-stream Enterprise Access Point
802.11a/b/g/n
3 x 3 MIMO technology
450 Mbps maximum air rate per channel blanket
3 internal radios
Edge GbE Port Capacity
Switch cascade
Ability to form ports switches of any number in the range of 16-32
Single blanket, no handoff between switches Requires switches direct connectivity Cascading can be added to existing deployments All traffic is uplinked to the networked from a single
switch Built in redundancy option
Cascade mode
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Standalone mode
Switch Cascade High Availability
Interconnect
LAN LAN
AP’s Distributed in mesh. Smaller
coverage area.
NetGlide Network Management System
Centrally manage and monitor up to 48,000 APs / 2,000 switches Display floor plans with APs, geographical maps with sites Present faults, performance stats, inventory management,
reports, graphs Interface to higher level organizational management systems
3 Case Studies
Essa School(UK) Kiva Systems (USA) Mignot Hospital (France)
Essa-School, UK Private, K-12 school
“Our vision was basically to form a wireless backbone for anytime, any place learning, that doesn’t necessarily have to take place in the classroom.”
Abdul Chohan, Essa IT Manager
The Challenge
Tablet PCs, iPhones, 50 wireless projectors, and an iPod Touch for every student to leverage podcasts and vodcasts as part of their day-to-day instruction.
Throughput, mobility, reliability must-haves
Checked Out The Competition First
“I was beginning to think that wireless LANs might not be a feasible solution, because co-channel interference can severely reduce basic network performance during high usage periods…•
Then Discovered Netronics
…Netronics seemed almost too good to be true. I hadn’t heard of Channel Blanket technology, and couldn’t imagine wireless without dead spots or limitations caused by interference. But we piloted the Netronics solution onsite, saw that the performance claims were real, and went forward immediately with it.”
Abdul Chohan, Essa IT Manager
The Result.…
Networked Wireless Laptops in-use
True Mobility, High Throughput
Networked IPAD in-use
Essa WLAN Platform
802.11a/b/g/n Netronics NetGlide APC-8 Controllers
switches NetGlide UTAP3N Access Points
KIVA Systems, USA Logistics and warehousing
automation
The Challenge
How do you control a floor of fast-moving robots?
High RF Noise due to metal building walls!
RF ‘canyons’ (the aisles) Any WLAN outage will shut-
down the system !!!
“Especially in the fault conditions we looked into, Netronics performed effortlessly compared to other technologies. “Seamless mobility is very important to us, and Netronics technology is what makes that possible.”
•Matt Verminski, Kiva Engineering
Kiva Feedback
Kiva WLAN Platform
802.11a NetGlide APC8
switches NetGlide UTAP3N Access Points
Mignot Hospital, Versailles HS, France 800-bed hospital, part of Versailles Hospital System
The Challenge
Bandwidth-intensive PACS application ( 90MB files!)
Need fast downloads, while walking from room to room in patient areas
Seamless mobility
Absolute dependability!
“We needed real mobility without
dropped connections while downloading
Large, highly time-sensitive files……and
Netronics was the only product that offered us that.”
The Choice: Netronics
Herve Paris, Director of Information Technology
Versailles Hospital System
Mignot Hospital WLAN Platform
802.11a NetGlide APC8
switches NetGlide UTAP3N AccessPoints
Thank youThank you
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