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Still others feel bombarded by complex and often

contradictory information about the rapidly developing

WLAN market segment. This market overflows with

a wide range of WLAN technologies, products and

architectures such as "fat" access points, "thin" access

points with WLAN controllers and other approaches.

A related challenge is navigating the confusing

marketplace of various vendors, many of whom lack

the longevity and trusted brands that enterprises seek

to safeguard their investments.

Another challenge is that wireless networks have for

the most part evolved separately from wired networks.

As a result, even networking vendors that offer both

wired and wireless equipment and network

management products have sold them as two separate

"tracks," leaving much of the coordination up to

individual customers.

All enterprises, regardless of their stage of WLAN

adoption, want clear answers about which mobility

solutions to deploy, as well as when and where to deploy

them. And as organizations begin to rely on WLANs as

they now rely on wired LANs, they increasingly care

about the security, ease of deployment, session

persistence, quality of service and — perhaps most

importantly — ease of management of their entire

mobility infrastructure once it is in place.

ProCurve Offers a Unified Approach

All ProCurve products and solutions — both wired

and wireless — share the foundation of the ProCurve

Adaptive EDGE Architecture (AEA), a cohesive vision

designed to best meet network infrastructure needs both

today and in the future. The ProCurve Adaptive EDGE

Architecture approach is to push intelligence to the edge

of the network, where users connect, enabling command

from the center with control to the edge.

The ProCurve AEA foundation led to the ProCurve

Adaptive Networks vision, an approach to network

infrastructures that can significantly boost

organizations' ability to compete effectively in the face of

rapid change. By being adaptive to users, to applications

and to organizations, Adaptive Networks fortify security,

increase productivity and reduce complexity across the

organization.

ProCurve's mobility offerings are a prime example

of the ProCurve Adaptive Network vision in action.

They provide maximum choice and flexibility to meet

a wide array of customer needs, securely and without

added complexity. Because ProCurve's wireless solutions

have evolved within the same AEA framework as its

wired solutions, ProCurve unifies wired and wireless

networking in ways not previously possible.

This holistic approach enables enterprises to manage

all their mobility options consistently with one another,

as well as with wired network solutions. ProCurve's

centralized, network-wide management and secure

access control makes it easy to deploy and centrally

manage a secure, yet flexible, multi-service network that

can lead to greater productivity as well as better return

on IT investment.

In addition, ProCurve's infrastructure is based heavily

on open standards and strengthened by industry-leading

warranties and robust service and support. As a result,

ProCurve offers built-in investment protection for its

mobility solutions, allowing enterprises to adapt easily

to changing needs and incorporate future applications

— such as VoWLAN — into the same infrastructure

deployed today.