Legacy Device Support
Outdoor Wireless
Indoor Wireless
Here are three new products that come in the new managed wireless offering from Hewlett-Packard. You’ll not find these products anywhere else.
Legacy device support. Here’s a hardened, metal box that allows you to integrate legacy devices that don’t have wireless support. Have printers or scanners out on some production floor or conference area that don’t have built-in wireless? Here’s an inexpensive unit that you can add to these devices to make them wireless. It has an 802.11b/g wireless and Ethernet and serial interfaces. We’d love it if you swapped out your entire wireless network for HP, but you can just add these to your existing one.
Outdoor wireless. Need a hardened outdoor wireless system? Here’s a wireless controller and access point in one package. Set this up outside and control other outdoor wireless access points. Create an outdoor wireless mesh network independent of your existing networks, or just use the outdoor access points with a regular wireless controller.
Indoor wireless, with a twist. Need to serve a number of local ports with a single existing wired drop? Add one of these handy and inexpensive (around $250) devices to your local wall. This has four 10/100 BASE-T ports, one powered with 802.3af-compliant POE, a pass-through port for an analog phone or similar device, and an 802.11 b/g wireless access point. All packaged in a low-profile, managed enclosure with SFlow and MAC address lockout, just like all of the wireless devices described in this section.
This last mention of SFlow and MAC address lockout is a very big point—you can use these to create a network that will recognize virus and worm attacks, hacks, and other unwanted behavior and automatically lock out the offending device.
