Cisco Ciscoworks Wireless LAN Solution Engine

Cisco Ciscoworks Wireless LAN Solution Engine ... Advanced air/radio frequency (RF) and device management tools eliminate complexity and give administrators visibility into the WLAN.

By quickly and easily detecting, locating, and disabling unauthorized (rogue) access points, CiscoWorks WLSE helps ensure security, while ensuring that policies are consistently applied throughout the network. This advanced capability can benefit any organization, including those that have not deployed WLANs but still want to guard against intruders.

New in 2.7 is self-healing WLANs, an advanced radio management feature that enables a Cisco Aironet Series access point to adjust its cell coverage area automatically to compensate for an adjacent disabled or failed access point. CiscoWorks WLSE further optimizes performance by detecting and locating RF interference, while proactively monitoring utilization and faults.

CiscoWorks WLSE takes full advantage of the air/RF measurement and multifunction capabilities built into Cisco Aironet access points and a growing number of Cisco infrastructure devices that are part of Cisco SWAN. This reduces the total number of components needed in the network, and reduces the cost and the time needed for deployment, which is dramatically simplified with tools such as the assisted site survey.

In fact, CiscoWorks WLSE automates a range of previously time-consuming and repetitive tasks, such as bulk firmware updates and mass configuration of access points and bridges. CiscoWorks WLSE may be transparently integrated with other network management systems (NMSs), operations support systems, and CiscoWorks applications. CiscoWorks WLSE runs on the CiscoWorks 1130 for Wireless LAN Solution Engine hardware platform, which is one rack unit high.