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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 30 May 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 Cisco sees its new approach as addressing a fundamental weakness of current corporate WLANs: the wireless access point controller’s primary role is optimising the performance of the wireless network to carry data: it is ill-suited to supporting an increasing burden of wireless applications.Featured Whitepaper
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Cisco’s Mobility Services Engine will have four initial applications - primarily for WiFi devices and RFID tags. According to Colin Bradley Cisco Australia’s mobility expert, “It is effectively a next generation location engine. There are four major areas where we are looking to enhance that ability in the short term. The first is tracking: we are working with our traditional partners in the RFID space like AeroScout and Pango and people who use the underlying wireless infrastructure to enable them to track devices in a more flexible way. There is a lot of work being done with the RFID vendors to see what we can do now and were we can go in the future.” Security was once a major concern for WiFi network operators but new standards in recent years have addressed most of these but, according to Bradley, “Cisco believes there is much that can be done in the wireless intrusion prevention space and the MSE will have the ability to improve intrusion prevention.” It is also designed as a platform to support dual mode wireless devices - such as WiFi cellular devices - roaming between private WiFi networks and public cellular networks. Bradley said: “The first major focus of that will be 3G devices on 802.11 and doing that seamlessly.” Cisco has for some time partnered with Nokia to integrate Nokia WiFi/3G handsets into its WLAN environment and Tom Furlong, senior vice president, Services & Software, Nokia said that Nokia was aiming to deliver automatic handoff to Cisco’s internal Nokia Intellisync Call Connect users and other customers in its next software release. The fourth initial application area is device management: providing more flexible and comprehensive means of remotely managing the increasing number of multifunction devices that are now being deployed in coporate networks. Bradley said that most of the applications supported by the MSE initially could be implemented without it, but the task would be much harder. |
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