© 2007 The Interference-Free™ Wireless LAN Next-Generation Wi-Fi for the Enterprise Wireless Triple Play
© Agenda Introductions The Drive Toward the Wireless Office The Extricom Interference-Free™ Architecture
© The Ideal Wireless LAN? No RF cell planning Drastically reduced maintenance effort No co-channel interference Seamless mobility with no handoff delays Supports Voice, Data, and Video services without trade-offs Enables guaranteed service levels Extricom is the ONLY solution that can provide all these together.
© The Extricom Experience Guaranteed Performance Move from “Best-Efforts” WLAN to Guaranteed Performance metrics Surprising Simplicity Take away the complexity of RF Total Mobility Voice demands true mobility – without it, convergence cannot succeed Voice, Data, & Video Without Trade-Offs One infrastructure investment, many uses, serving different users with predictable quality of service
© Vitals Principal offices in New York, Tel-Aviv, London, Tokyo Founded 2002 Strategic Investors include Motorola Patented: 18 filed, 5 granted CTO is one of original members of IEEE group Distribution - Worldwide through Distributors, Resellers, and OEMs The Proposition Superior performance and dramatic simplicity Multi-use infrastructure – voice, data, location, video, guest services Extricom
© Awards COMPANY Recognition Fierce WiFi – Fierce 15 Top 15 private companies that will change their industry IT Week Top 100 Vendor Vendors demonstrating quality and excellence in the channel PRODUCT Recognition TechWorld Wireless Product of the Year Awarded for Enterprise functionality, performance, and value Wireless Product of the Year by Internet Telephony Awarded for innovation for VoIP in the wireless world CUSTOMER Recognition 1 st Place MBX Ultimate Mobility Award TTL Network (Germany) for use of Wi-Fi to control breaking system on 125 km/hr rollercoaster
© Why the Need for Extricom? A New Era of Expectations for Enterprise WLAN What Enterprises want from their WLAN Investment Mobility - Voice demands mobility Convergence – Means adding voice to data Multiple Services on One Infrastructure Lower cost of ownership – complexity must not grow with deployment scale The Challenge Need greater coverage and bandwidth, but these are mutually exclusive in traditional implementations Require mobility, but is not mobile Convergence requires Quality of Service mechanisms not in Must control the cost and complexity of ownership as Wi-Fi network grows Today’s technology approach is limiting Cannot achieve the performance required by new demands Too complicated, complex, and costly
© The Extricom WLAN Shift from cell-based WLAN to “channel blanket” topology Significantly more flexible, easy-to-own, and robust WLAN compliant, with an innovative & unique architecture
© The Channel Blanket Benefits Simple No RF Cell Planning Plug-and-Play deployment Does not require RF expertise Flexible Multi-layer WLAN, in One Infrastructure Concurrent high-performance of all services, devices, and user types Capable Seamless mobility – which does not inherently exist in the standard Maximized coverage and capacity – previously a trade-off Enhanced bandwidth – TrueReuse™ Guaranteed Service Levels
© 2007 Architecture
© The Realities of Scarcity of Radio Channels Throughput varies with distance Protocol designed for portability, not mobility Mixed mode (b/g) backward compatibility degrades capacity Voice and data contention degrades capacity and service quality These traits are inconsequential in small deployments. But have major implications for mid-to-large systems. The Extricom solution overcomes all of the above constraints.
© The Cell-Based WLAN The Single-Cell Experience Logic and Radio Electronics Integrated into Access Point (AP) Simplicity No Co-Channel Interference Seamless Mobility Security with Mobility But still … limited coverage and unpredictable bandwidth
© The Trouble with Cells… is meant for a Single-Cell Environment Forces a Single-AP protocol to function in a Multi-AP Environment Results in trade-offs: a “tug-of-war” This architecture is impaired by the Standard. Trade-Offs Coveragevs.Capacity Capacityvs.Mobility Mobilityvs.Security
© : Implemented in a Multi-AP Environment Need RF expertise Ongoing “tweaking” Device configuration burden COMPLEX Always Co-channel interference No guarantees on throughput Coverage gaps Portability, not mobility Unreliable wireless connections Security conflicts with mobility GIVE-AND-TAKE PERFORMANCE Everyone competes for the same wireless resource INFLEXIBLE
© The Extricom Interference-Free™ Architecture No RF cell planning Plug-and-play install Zero-configuration AP SIMPLE No co-channel interference Guaranteed throughput Zero-handoff mobility Complete coverage TrueReuse™ - up to 10X Bandwidth Wire-like connection Secure while mobile, even WPA CAPABLE Multi-Layer WLAN Guarantee QoS by separating: voice, data, video b and.11g private / public zones FLEXIBLE
© 2007 What are the Elements of the Interference-Free™ Architecture?
© The Extricom Channel Blanket Approach Experience of a Single Cell, plus: Wide-Area Coverage Guaranteed Bandwidth Link Stability The Channel Blanket Centralize Logic, Distribute the Radio Only
© The Extricom Channel Blanket Approach The Channel Blanket Centralize Logic, Distribute the Radio Only Multi-Layer WLAN Distributed four radios per AP. Radios operate in any combination of channel, band & mode Capacity Simplified QoS Dedicated Security Monitoring + Experience of a Single Cell, plus: Wide-Area Coverage Guaranteed Bandwidth Link Stability TrueReuse™ Dynamic frequency reuse Coverage with Capacity 3X BW per Channel Up to 10X Aggregate Bandwidth +
© Products EXSW-2400, 24-port WLAN Switch EXSW-1200, 12-port WLAN Switch Supports up to 24 or 12 UltraThin APs Two 1000Mbps backbone to the LAN Hardware based i encryption Delivers PoE to the APs EXSW-800, 8-port WLAN Switch Supports up to 8 UltraThin APs 100Mbps backbone to the LAN Hardware based i encryption Delivers PoE to the APs EXRP-20 Dual-Radio UltraThin™ AP EXRP-40 Four-Radio UltraThin™ AP UltraThin - No intelligence in the device Multiple a/b/g compliant radios 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE)
© Products EXWO-404 – Wireless Office Edition One 4-port WLAN Switch Four UltraThin Dual-Radio a/b/g Tadios Delivers PoE to the APs For medium-sized standalone deployments EXRE-10 PoE Range Extender Doubles the range of PoE to 200m In-line and self-powered
© Summary – Why Extricom? The market is entering a new era Mobility, Multi-Application, Convergence drive a new level of hoped-for value, but reveal a new set of challenges never-before confronted Starting from cell-based “DNA” is problematic Extricom’s solution is designed for this new era Extricom offers a completely new experience for enterprise WLAN Shift from “best efforts wireless” to Guaranteed Performance Radically reduced deployment and ownership costs Superior performance for all services A “must-have” architecture for voice over Wi-Fi (VoWLAN)