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AirWave 7™ delivers operational efficiency for teams managing rapidly changing networks and supporting mobile users who connect via the wireless LAN as well as wired Ethernet ports.

As the only multi-vendor operations solution on the market that manages wired and wireless infrastructure as well as mobile devices, AirWave 7 eliminates the need for multiple, disparate single-purpose management tools. Its easy-to-use interface and user-centric approach enable your service desk to triage connectivity issues while your valuable network engineering staff focuses on more strategic work. You also get a much simpler way to enforce policies, and actionable information that lets you plan for the future. That’s why more than 1,000 organizations in a wide variety of industries throughout the world use AirWave solutions.

Doesn’t my hardware vendor provide wireless “management”?

Many wireless hardware vendors offer proprietary element management systems (EMS) to customers who buy their hardware. Only AirWave offers a comprehensive operations solution for today’s changing enterprise networks.

What’s the difference?

An EMS is usually designed to enable network engineers to configure settings on the vendors’ devices and to distribute software updates. In contrast, an operations solution helps the whole IT organization (or NOC staff) control the entire wireless infrastructure to ensure reliable performance and deliver efficient support to wireless users.

When your wireless LAN was a small, “best-effort” network that you managed in your spare time, a proprietary element management system may have met your most basic needs. As your wireless networks transforms into a mission-critical network with thousands of users supported by multiple groups within IT, you need an operations management solution in order to manage service quality efficiently and effectively.

Compared to a proprietary EMS, AirWave provides:

  • A better user experience
  • User-centric management
  • Intelligence for better decision-making
  • Multi-vendor, multi-architecture, multi-generational support

Learn more about how AirWave 7 helps you:

“The AirWave Wireless Management Suite™ has saved me hundreds of man-hours of work. Changing complex security settings on our WLAN used to take me weeks. Now I can tell the AirWave software what to change and go do other tasks while my network is automatically updated.”
James Lersch
Network Services Engineer
Giant Eagle, Inc.