High Performance, Easy to Deploy Wireless

Agenda Foundry Key Differentiators Business Value Product Overview Questions

Poor Performance Slow Roaming DIFFICULT END-USERS Enterprise Wireless – What are the REAL Operational Issues??? … Is the wireless LAN ready?

High Utilization = Low Throughput Issue #1 – Poor Performance

High Utilization = Low Throughput RESOLUTION: Over-the-Air QoS & Contention Free Access High Utilization & High Throughput High performance High scalability High density Enterprise WLAN ready

Issue #2 – Deployment Limited Non-Overlapping Channels Channel Interference Add 3-Dimensions (Multiple Floors) to this and the Problem Magnifies. Automatic Radio Management or Pico-Cells for Performance and Density?

Channel Coordination Easy to deploy Easy to manage Easy to expand Enterprise WLAN ready RESOLUTION:Single-Channel Deployment

Issue #3 – Slow Roaming or No Roaming Clients require 200 ms to 5 seconds to roam Microsoft adds a level of complexity to this issue. Proprietary Solutions and Protocols help, but do not completely resolve the issue.

200ms – 5 sec between APs Traditional APs < 3 msec between APs BSSID = ZZ 00:00 BSSID = XXBSSID = YY 01:00 Channel 1 Virtual Cell Architecture Single BSSID Channel 1 Channel 6 RESOLUTION: Seamless Roaming, Single BSSID – Virtual Cell No roaming packet loss No roaming delay No roaming latency Enterprise WLAN ready

Foundry Key Differentiators The VALUE… With all other Wireless features and functions the same… Foundry Offers: Over the Air QoS and Contention Free Access Increases Density of End-Stations per AP 75 to 150 Users per AP 20 to 30 VoIP over WiFi Users per AP Single Channel Deployment Minimizes Pre & Post Site Survey Requirements Makes Adding AP’s Easy Eliminates Redeployment Issues Single BSSID – Virtual Cell Architecture Removes the End-Station negotiation with the AP Makes the WiFi Network similar to the Cellular Network

Foundry’s Product Overview – IPM Controller Based Wireless Architecture From 5 AP’s to 1000 AP’s per Controller Field Upgradeable Controllers High Availability Options Access Points Single Radio or Dual Radio Options A/B/G and/or N – Supported by All Controllers Software Upgradeable “N” options All Features supported on all Controllers & APs

Foundry’s IronPoint Mobility Series – Mobility Controller Product Line MC5000 MC3000 MC1000 MC500 PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY APs 2Gbps APs 2Gbps 5 APs 200Mbps APs 10Gbps

Foundry’s IronPoint Mobility Series – Access Point Product Line AP320 AP310 AP311 AP302 AP208 AP201 RS4000 AP150 Full n Draft 2.0 Single Radio Full n Dual Radios Full n Upgradeable n Draft 2.0 Upgradeable to n Dual a/b/g Radios Upgradeable to n Single a/b/g Radio Single n Radio Converged Voice/Data a/b/g Single a/b/g/ Radio Dual a/b/g Radios Classic Enterprise a/b/g Single b/g Radio Single a Radio Dual b/g Radios Dual a Radios

Foundry’s IronPoint Mobility Series – AP n Access Points Designed for any deployment scenario, migration plan & budget n Draft 2.0 dual band AP320 & single band AP310 Upgradeable, cost-effective a/b/g AP311 & AP302 Supports 802.3af PoE and new 802.3at PoE+ Investment protection for legacy switches and seamless transition to new standards Closes the n rogue AP security gap Detects, alerts & monitors n rogue APs Maintains performance leadership for highest scalability & ease of deployment Advanced reservation-based QoS allows 64 users per radio with no performance loss due to contention. No more wasteful Pico-cells to manage high density networks Single-channel advantage eliminates complex RF planning & need for special adaptive radios. Greater coverage with fewer access points.

Unpredictable channel access, latency, jitter AP gets proportional share of channel as one of the clients No over-the-air QoS Predictable channel access, latency, jitter AP gets the right amount of channel access (50%) MS I D Channel Access with Mobility Series AP Time (Sec) Over-the-air QoS Time (Sec) Channel Access with Today’s AP Air Traffic Control Technology – Over-the-air QoS with Near Deterministic Channel Access

Foundry’s Switch-like Fairness (Example for b AP) 1 IronPoint Mobility Series AP Test - 20 Clients: Total aggregate through-put 6.1Mbps 1 3 rd Gen AP Test - 20 Clients: Total aggregate through-put 3.6Mbps: 2 clients completely starved

Detailed Results of Tolly Testing

Today’s AP Proprietary Client Today’s AP Standard Client Mobility Series AP Standard Client Dynamic mix of voice and data on same channels Typically on separate channels/network < 5 5X AP No over-the-air QoS Wired QoS Over-the-air QoS IronPoint Mobility Series AP Air Traffic Control Technology – 5x QoS Voice Calls per Access Point

Traditional WLAN To minimize interference power levels are lower so cell size is smaller– requires more Access Points, cable drops, and labor Recurring site surveys Adds/moves/ changes require channel reassignment Foundry WLAN Single channel eliminates interference so full power can be used, larger areas covered so fewer devices required Access Points can be added to increase capacity as needed without a channel planning survey To survey or not to survey ….. No deployment complexity! Expanding a FDRY/Meru WLAN Expanding a Traditional WLAN

Foundry’s channel spans preserve RF resources Conventional WLAN channel plan consumes RF resources Add capacity where you need it… Multi-channel Layering All RF channels are consumed to provide a single channel of capacity per region Ch. 11 Ch. 6 Ch. 1 Ch. 6 Channel Span Multiple channels can be layered to add capacity per region Add capacity by layering channel spans Ch. 11 Channel Span