INTELLIGENT MOBILE TECHNOLOGY
RVBD XD2 230 3Quarter Top Ports.
Riverbed
Launches New
Xirrus Wi-Fi
Access Point
Setting a New
Industry
We believe the new XD2-230 solution provides
the ultimate combination of performance,
flexibility and value for delivering wireless
service in today’s business climate says
Bruce Miller, Vice President, Xirrus Product
Marketing, Riverbed Technology.
R
iverbed Technology has announced a new Xirrus Wi-Fi
Access Point (AP), setting a new standard for wireless price-
performance that enables powerful intelligent services at the
network edge, further extending the most complete Wi-Fi solution
in the market. The new Riverbed Xirrus Wave 2 AP (Model XD2-
230) enables organisations to support business-critical applications
in mobile environments at an extremely cost-effective price point,
with zero-touch configuration that can be set up within minutes.
In addition, the new Riverbed Xirrus Wave 2 AP strengthens the
wireless and wired LAN capabilities of Riverbed’s market-leading SD-
WAN solution, SteelConnect, the first and only solution with unified
connectivity and policy-based orchestration spanning the entire
network: wireless LAN, WAN, datacentre and into the cloud.
This new AP marks the first expansion of the Riverbed Xirrus
product line since Riverbed’s acquisition of Xirrus, the leading
provider of next-generation Wi-Fi networks.
As mobile applications continue to proliferate the industry,
organisations must ensure their wireless infrastructure keeps
up with demand. Gartner forecasts 20.4 billion connected
things will be in use worldwide by 2020. Riverbed Xirrus
addresses wireless infrastructure needs from the most basic
small offices to the most demanding large venue stadiums,
providing a strategic advantage to organisations that depend
on wireless connectivity to conduct their businesses. The new
Riverbed Xirrus Wave 2 AP delivers the performance and
advanced service needed to build an infrastructure for today
that scales and flexes to meet the future demands of tomorrow.
The new Riverbed Xirrus Wi-Fi solution is an 802.11ac AP
that can be managed from the cloud or on-premises. The AP
is designed with a powerful integrated controller, providing
layer 7 application visibility to help businesses keep up with
the demands that applications are putting on Wi-Fi. With three
radios, including Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), the XD2-230
model provides secure access for Wi-Fi users and Internet of
Things (IoT) devices with an easy-to-use SaaS solution, while
helping enterprises scale and adapt to evolving demands.
The new Wave AP delivers an unprecedented level of
price-performance at 3.9Gbps total Wi-Fi bandwidth. A
powerful onboard controller enables application-based policy
control, integrated location services, and software-defined
radios directly at the network edge, eliminating the cost and
complexity of additional controllers and service appliances, and
reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) by 30 per cent or more.
Management and control is provided by the cloud or an on-
premises-based Xirrus Management System (XMS), enabling
complete visibility and control for all devices and applications
from a single console. Secure access for an unlimited number
of users/devices is delivered by the EasyPass SaaS solution.
EasyPass simplifies secure Wi-Fi connectivity with integration
to the Microsoft Azure and Google application ecosystems,
enabling single sign-on to both user applications and Wi-Fi.
Simple and secure onboarding for BYOD and IoT devices is
supported by unique per-user security credentials that lock
down access at a device level.
The rapid pace of change and the need to do more with less
fundamentally impacts IT decision making today. Operational
efficiency and agility are key to the ability of organisations to
adapt to changing business conditions to remain competitive.
We believe the new XD2-230 solution provides the ultimate
combination of performance, flexibility, and value for delivering
wireless service in today’s business climate. It is designed
to handle the growing and changing wireless connectivity
demands of today and tomorrow, and yet do so at a significantly
lower TCO v competitive alternatives.
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