HP Bridges Wired-Wireless Gap with Cloud Managed Networking
April 1, 2014
Grazed from TomsITPro. Author: Bill Olivier.
Hewlett Packard has announced a cloud managed software-defined network (SDN) that will improve mobile end user experience and help businesses simplify network management and possibly increase retail revenue, according to the company. The new solutions announced today at Interop 2014 in Las Vegas cover both wired and wireless networks.
The HP Cloud Managed Network Solution includes IEEE 802.11ac wireless access points (AP) and software-defined network applications. According to HP, it is a unified wired and wireless network solution that is combined with SDN. HP’s wireless AP models 560 and 517 are based on IEEE 802.11ac standards will provide end users up to three times faster speeds over 802.11n…
The HP 560 models will additionally be OpenFlow enabled so that organizations can use SDN applications to manage the devices without having to replace existing infrastructure…
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