To help with troubleshooting, Airespace includes a packet-capture feature, which you can activate centrally from the switch. Aruba's 800 box offers a similar feature.
Airespace Wireless Enterprise Platform 2.0: Airespace 4000 WLAN Switch, $11,000; Airespace 1200 AP, $400; Airespace Control System Software, $4,000. Airespace, (866) 546-2100, (408) 635-2000. www.airespace.com
Cisco WLSE (Wireless LAN Solutions Engine) 2.5
Cisco's WLSE 2.5 is aimed at easing configuration and management of large Cisco WLAN deployments. Although this most recent release offers administrators some basic RF monitoring capabilities for their 802.11b networks, it remains primarily an enterprise configuration-management solution.
Putting WLSE in charge of our test bed of Cisco 1200 APs was as simple as letting the device discover them by way of SNMP. The laborious part came when we had to upgrade all the access points' firmware to leverage the platform's RM (Radio Monitoring) capabilities.
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