D-Link Confidential

Tony Thomas

AP Manager II AP Manager II

WLAN Management for SMB/SME Introduction of AP Manager II Benefits & Highlight Features Competition

Agenda

AP Array Introduction

What SMB/SME Needs for WLAN Deployment ? - Ease of deployment & management - Stable - Real-time monitor & report

Headache of WLAN Management - Multiple-AP configuration & management - Complex security setting

11n Drives the WLAN Deployment

WLAN Management

No Comprehensive Management Tool For “SMB/SME” - Professional solution is not affordable & complex

SMB / SME

3 Flavors of Wi-Fi Management

Products When to use Selling model Applied model

AP Manager II

D-ViewWireless Plug-in

AP Array

• Free• Bundled with AP

• Free • Integrated in FW

• Enterprise-level • Manage multiple WSs• Manage unified / FAT APs

• Charged• Plug-in module for D-View

• SMB/SME-level • Only manage FAT APs

• Small office-level• Manage up to 8 FAT APs• Same AP model in group • No additional PC

D-Link Wi-Fi Management

• All unified APs• All FAT APs

• AirPremier series

• AirPremier N

WLAN Management

SMB/SME FocusSMB/SME Focus

AP Array Introduction

Introduction of AP Manager II What is AP Manager II?

AP Manager II is …

A Purpose-built WLAN Mgt. Software For SME

Free-bundled With D-Link Business AP, No Extra Cost

Unified Platform To Manage & Monitor D-Link APs

Configure once, apply to multiple APs

Real-time Monitor The Whole Wireless Network

Rich & Visualized Report For Further Mgt. Tasks

Application Diagram

L2/L3 Network

DWL-3200AP/8200AP DWL-2700AP/7700AP DWL-3260AP DAP-3220 DAP-2553/2590/3520

AP Manager II Server Win 2K,XP,2003 At least 500MHz processor,128MB memory Ethernet adapter SNMP must enable Running MySOL (v2.00) or PostgreSQL (v2.10)

Introduction of AP Manager II

Benefits & Highlight Features

AP Manager II manages multiple APs through a unified platform with a bunch of handy features

Group ManagementGroup Management

Multi-ConfigurationMulti-Configuration

Fault ManagementFault Management

Real-time Report Real-time Report

Modulized Software Modulized Software

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Group ManagementBenefits & Highlight Features

Sales Dept. Warehouse.

RD Dept.

All the APs discovered by APM II can be managed by model or assign to category 1~3 manually

Mass FW Upgrade Mass FW Upgrade

Apply Template FileApply Template File

Config ComparisonConfig Comparison

Multi-ConfigurationBenefits & Highlight Features

With multi-configuration , You can do following tasks Mass Firmware Upgrade - Upgrade FW for multiple APs by model Mass Configuration - Apply configuration by running template file Maintenance Template File. - New / Delete / Edit / Run / Export / Import template file

Fault ManagementBenefits & Highlight Features

Comprehensive log related AP activities - StandardTrap , System , Threshold , Private event

Real-time ReportBenefits & Highlight Features

Transmit DetailTransmit DetailStation DetailStation Detail

Channel UsageChannel UsageSecurity LevelSecurity Level

Comprehensive visualized and real-time report - Station Detail , Transmit Detail , Security Level , Channel Usage

Microsoft Excel

Notepad

Report ExportBenefits & Highlight Features

Various report export format - Text , Excel , PDF

Task SchedulingBenefits & Highlight Feature

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Configuration Comparison By Schedule - Compare each AP’s configuration by schedule then send alarm to administrator if there is any changes.

Update FW By Schedule - Compare the current AP's firmware version by schedule and APM II will notify administrator to do firmware upgrade or upgrade firmware automatically.

Multi-Configuration By Schedule - Apply template file to specific group or IP address by schedule. Administrator can update configuration to their APs in the rest time without influence any user.

Individual AP Manager II module for each AP model - Only need to install APM II and choose the module by AP model which user wants to manage

In AP Manager II v2.00 the default setting need to install all of the model even no this kind of AP in the wireless network

In AP Manager II v2.10 only need to install software and the module you want

EX: Only DAP-2590 in wireless network

Benefits & Highlight Features Modulized Software

For each new AP release , just install the AP module In APMII server

WLAN Mgmt Competitive Analysis

Small

MotorolaHP NETGEAR 3Com H3CCisco

RF Management Suite 3.0

ProCurve Mobility Manager 2.0

ProSafeNMS100( only support 1 AP )

D-View 6.0D-View 6.0Wireless Wireless Plug-inPlug-in

AP AP Manager IIManager II

AP AP ArrayArray

EnterpriseSM

E

Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE).

WLSE Express

NO NONO NO NO NO

NONO NO NO

NONONO

THANK YOU

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