Aruba Networks’ wireless access point features TPM

Posted by Ken Y-N on April 23rd, 2008 at 01:54pm

Aruba Networks have recently announce a new range of 802.11a/b/g access points that are ready for upgrade to the dual-radio 802.11n standard as required.

As this 802.11n is still new, clients that support this are thin on the ground, so this new access point is ready and waiting for when organisations are prepared to make the move.

The key technical features are quoted as follows:

Aruba’s new dual-radio AP-124ABG and AP-25ABG Access Point family is based on the newest generation RF chips and high-performance MIPS CPUs with hardware-accelerated cryptographic processing. Featuring 3×3 Multiple-In Multiple-Out (MIMO) operation, the access points include automatic Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) management that supports 802.3af, 802.3at, and PoE +.

The new AP-124ABG and AP-125ABG Access Points can be used for wireless access, intrusion-detection monitoring, secure enterprise mesh or remote access point applications. The mode of operation is determined by network-downloadable software, which eliminates the expense of physically accessing the devices to re-purpose or update them.

To keep all these bells and whistles under control, Aruba’s AirWave Wireless Management Suite may be used to manage all legacy and new infrastructure within a single comsole.

There is also a Trusted Protection Module (TPM) (shouldn’t that be Trusted Platform Module?) to manage the security credentials that protect access points in unsecured locations.

You’ll be able to obtain the hardware early this summer, 2008.

The full story was reported on by Michelle Robart at TMCnet, and can be found here.

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