802.11n Solution

HP ProCurve’s Intelligent Mobility Solution was designed from the ground up with the 802.11n standard in mind. Introduced in early 2006, ProCurve offers the only centrally-managed Wireless LAN solution to enable cost-effective migration to 802.11n – with no costly, disruptive upgrades to your wireless or wired networks. Whether you want to migrate today or a year from now, ProCurve helps to protect your investment in Wi-Fi at all times.

802.11n migration costs – Choose wisely
With 802.11n, wireless networks provide a competitive advantage for cutting-edge enterprises. The new standard delivers operating speeds five times the current standards, opening the door for the delivery of new applications and processes.

However, along with the opportunity come significant costs if you make the wrong WLAN choice. Deploying 802.11n on a centralized WLAN switch architecture can cause significant scalability problems because of the exponential increases in traffic on the core LAN backbone through the central WLAN controller. To scale to the new standard, legacy WLAN switch solutions and core network backbone can require costly hardware upgrades. But there is an alternative — HP ProCurve.

Cost-effective 802.11n migration
When compared with traditional centralized WLAN solutions, HP ProCurve’s next-generation traffic forwarding is highly efficient – delivering significant cost and performance improvements when migrating to 802.11n. As wireless traffic capacity increases with 802.11n, ProCurve wireless controllers will continue to support the same number of APs, regardless of their capacity. Other vendors will require you to purchase five times the controller capacity to support new high-capacity APs.

While other WLAN vendors require significant Wi-Fi infrastructure changes for 802.11n – including forklift upgrades of centralized WLAN switches, core network switches, and even the purchase of new data aggregation hardware – HP ProCurve’s WLAN solution is 802.11n-ready today. When you are ready to take advantage of 802.11n, you can migrate seamlessly and simply by adding a new dual-radio MSM422 with Always-n technology. There is no need to make expensive changes to the central controller, WLAN architecture or wired network.