Today’s WiFi Management Applications are expected to be vendor neutral. With a step-by-step approach on WiFi, enterprises often end up buying hardware from more than one vendor. Architectural differences (thin vs. fat) and availability of enterprise-grade functions in low-end devices (and the associated cost benefits) fuel these decisions. So, the WiFi solution providers be it a equipment vendor or a wifi management solution provider who intend to sell their solution to such enterprises are often forced to ensure that their management solution can work seemlessly with the devices that interact with their solution. For example, WLAN switch vendors allow many third-party access points to get plugged in to their Switches, and obviously the end customer is going to opt for one single console to manage all that is plugged in.
Supporting multi-vendor hardware, testing them under real scenarios for discovery, configuration, health monitoring, firmware upgrade and other functions of device management call for a lot of work. This is a daunting task for the software team of every equipment vendor.
This is where AdventNet's WiFi Mediation API comes handy. It enables quick addition of multi-vendor management capability to any application. AdventNet offers this API which forms the core component in the AdventNet’s Integrated Wireless Security and Network Management solution - WiFi Manager. Third party applications can very easily integrate this library and use it to monitor and configure most of the prominent models of Access points in the market today.
Key Features:
- APIs to configure the security settings (SSID Settings, RADIUS Settings, VLAN settings, Authentication and Encryption settings) of the Access point.
- APIs to configure the Access Control List on all the supported models.
- APIs to configure the network settings like DNS Server settings, DHCP server settings, LAN IP, Gateway IP etc.
- APIs to configure the Radio Properties.
- APIs to monitor various parameters like the association details, bandwidth details and other traffic details.
- APIs to upgrade or downgrade the firmware versions on the Access point.
- Out of the Box support for managing most of the prominent models of Access point in the market today.
Benefits:
- Quick addition of multi-vendor AP management functionality to their existing applications.
- Ability to sell solutions to enterprises with heterogeneous networks.
- Ability to offer full-fledged Wireless Network Management solution at low price points.
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