Located in Cumberland, MD, Allegany County Public Schools was facing those growth pains that come for folks who embrace high-tech trends: It needed to accommodate an influx of Apple iPads, and other popular Wi-Fi-enabled mobile devices, on its wireless network.

With a solid reputation in the worldwide logistics industry for customer satisfaction, Averitt Express knows the valuable of uptime and reliability. Therefore when a network audit revealed a weakness in its existing wireless security the result was a thorough overhaul of its WLAN, upgrading from a wireless deployment with autonomous APs to a controller-less, centrally-managed wireless architecture.

Classic virtual private networks (VPNs) that connect networks in stores and warehouses to corporate networks generally add cost, complexity, and confusion to each location. Aerohive provides Branch on Demand a cloud-enabled networking solution for retailers that simplifies provisioning, management, security, and troubleshooting for their remote deployments.

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Churchtown School, one of the largest primary schools in the UK, was been searching for a new wireless LAN, and Aerohive answered the call. Reliability was a top priority, followed by manageability, performance, and cost, plus the ability to take advantage of the latest technology, including 802.11n.

About three years ago Folio Investing found itself in need of a technology upgrade at its corporate headquarters: It needed to accommodate its increasingly mobile workforce by deploying a company-wide wireless network. It needed a platform that was secure and that integrated wired and wireless networks.

Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technology are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. Powerful enterprise applications can now be delivered to almost any device, anywhere, at any time and take advantage of tremendous computing power available in consumer devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Regardless of whether these devices are corporate issued or personally owned, almost every IT department is experiencing the effects of unprecedented smart device and “Bring-Your-Own-Device” (BYOD) policy adoption in their enterprise. This paper will help you understand and address IT’s Dilemma in a Bring Your Own Device World.

NHS Newham wanted to ensure staff had the ability to update and access patient records or schedule a medical procedure from any location securely and in real time. A limited budget required choosing a wireless vendor who could help drive down CAPEX and OPEX without compromising security, innovation and value. Aerohive was able to deliver.

When Scotmid started looking for a Wi-Fi solution for their warehouse, they quickly recognized the need for wireless technology to support future applications at other locations as well, including the Co-op’s modern, three-story headquarters building and its 260+ retail stores. What Scotmid wanted was a single wireless LAN solution capable of meeting the needs of all three of these very different environments.

The Aerohive Simpli-Fi Solution is built on Wi-Fi mesh technology for access-point-to-access-point direct communication. With a fully distributed data forwarding and control plane architecture, Aerohive Simpli-Fi eliminates dependency on Wi-Fi controllers and remote WAN connections for superior performance. Caregivers and clinicians receive nonstop access to their critical applications and patient data.

In less than a decade, wireless LANs have evolved from a niche technology useable only by a few specialized applications to the default media of choice for millions of businesses and consumers. And WLANs continue to evolve. The latest generation of high-speed wireless LAN technology, based on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Draft 802.11n standard, are now becoming available.

In addition to corporate given laptops, employees are bringing their own devices to work these days – iPhones, Droids, iPads -- you name it; they are bringing it in. And they are expecting you to help them access the corporate Wi-Fi network with their own devices.

Aerohive Networks HiveManager NMS is a management system for Aerohive access points and branch routers. HiveManager enables simple policy creation, firmware upgrades, configuration updates, and centralized monitoring from a single console.

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The debate waging between deploying either public or private cloud services has remained to be a major worry and source of confusion among IT managers. This paper helps to define and differentiate between private and public cloud services in order to make a well-informed decision on which service to implement.

Cloud networking introduces a new way to deploy, operate, and manage distributed enterprise networks. It delivers enterprise-class network capabilities via a cloud infrastructure that requires little or no capital investment in additional appliances or IT resources. This white paper will provide details about cloud networking, the state of the cloud market, its benefits, and Aerohive’s cloud-enabled networking platform and its current cloud networking offerings.

The last 5 years of enterprise wireless LANs have enabled IT professionals to push high-availability techniques to the network edge, closer to users than ever before. By eliminating the need for controllers, the Cooperative Control Architecture from Aerohive Networks delivers unprecedented levels of availability, resiliency and scalability to mission-critical WLANs while significantly reducing the costs and complexity associated with controller deployments.

The distributed, virtualizing enterprise seeks to limit—or break—the relationship between physical location and the ability of a business to function. By shifting from traditional mid-sized to small branches to larger numbers of very small locations, the enterprise can more agilely address its business needs and opportunities. This strategy requires that IT be able to implement a location for a small number of users with very low overhead, and that it be able to turn up services at such locations very quickly—and turn them down again just as quickly. Ultralight branches let the business drive the placement and lifespan of branches while minimizing real estate, infrastructure, operational, and service costs.

Cloud-based WLAN management is poised to become a major alternative in the network management space. In fact, Farpoint Group believes that a majority of WLAN installations will be using cloud-based management over the next five years.

Creating “Wi-Fi that works”, even with minimal requirements, is a tall order given the breadth of client and application types that must perform well over the wireless infrastructure, but when adding in the speed and complexity of 802.11n, a variety of demanding applications, high-density environments, and tricky deployment scenarios, controller-based vendors cannot live up to their promises of Ethernet-like determinism. This whitepaper defines what a Wireless 2.0 network is, and the importance of a controller-less architecture for performance, reliability, scalability, security, and flexibility.

Aerohive next-generation controller-less Wi-Fi paired with AirWatch mobile device management streamlines and automates connectivity, management, and monitoring of mobile devices and BYOD. Together the solution provides profile enrollment, re-enrollment, and security policies for Android, Apple iOS, Mac OS X, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone devices

Because 802.1X requires the installation of a software client, it is difficult or impossible to use on unmanaged devices not owned by the enterprise, such as those of guests, students, subcontractors or the like. Aerohive’s patent-pending Private PSK provides the ease of PSK with many of the advantages of 802.1X solutions.

Antwerp University Hospital (UZA) was looking to implement a high-performance wireless LAN (WLAN) that could support staff, patients, visitors, and students studying at the university. The existing Cisco WLAN, however, was unable to support the hospital’s ambitions or provide the scalability they needed as a growing organization.

The AP121 is a cost-effective, enterprise-grade 2x2 MIMO solution, which is ideal for education, healthcare, and distributed enterprise environments. With two radios, concurrent 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz access, and security scanning across both bands, the AP121 provides top performance and security at an entry-level price point.

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The AP170 is an enterprise-grade, high performance (2x2) MIMO solution, designed for high bandwidth demand outdoor wireless environments.

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The AP330 is a durable, enterprise-grade, (3x3) MIMO solution, designed for high bandwidth demand wireless enterprise environments.

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The AP350 is a durable, enterprise-grade, (3x3) MIMO solution, designed for high bandwidth demand wireless enterprise environments.

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BCS, a global baggage handling and logistics specialist, operates from 30 different offices across three continents. Thanks to Aerohive’s simple cloud based network solution, all BCS locations now act as one big networked office. The benefits of Zero touch deployment of new branch offices and centralized management of their systems has been immediate and cost effective. 

To make networks service-aware and make BYOD with Apple devices a native part of every network, Aerohive has built a Bonjour Gateway to manage and control Apple service availability (such as AirPrintTM, AirPlay®, file sharing, collaboration applications, etc.) across an entire enterprise network. This patent-pending functionality is a native part of Aerohive’s HiveOS network operating system and as such even non-Aerohive legacy networks can manage their services by attaching a single Aerohive device, via a trunk port, to the network – the gateway functionality works out-of-band.

The Aerohive BR200 Router platforms combine secure routing and enterprise-class Wi-Fi in a single platform, providing essential networking and management capabilities to connect, secure, and manage branch offices. The BR200 router series comes in two models: the BR200 and the BR200-WP.

The Aerohive Branch on Demand™ solution makes it easy to deploy corporate capabilities to employees anywhere, while reducing operational costs. The key lies in a suite of features and functionality designed specifically for remote environments that simplify operations, enforce security policy, reduce costs, and operate virtually maintenance-free.

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Brookdale Senior Living is the largest provider of senior housing and senior care in the industry. Each day, about 46,000 Brookdale associates serve nearly 60,000 residents in a variety of settings. But like many senior living organizations, Brookdale Senior Living has a limited engineering team. These constraints are challenging, but Brookdale nevertheless recognized that it needed a next-generation wireless LAN to reach its far-flung facilities, to provide wireless access within those facilities, and to help the company realize the value of its other technology initiatives.

One of the most overlooked aspects of the BYOD phenomenon isn’t just connecting the users to the network, but how to manage them once they’re there. Getting mobile and BYO devices onto the network is now table stakes. This white paper will take you through the necessary connectivity and productivity requirements in order to ensure your network is truly ready for the mobility explosion.

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As your Wi-Fi deployment grows, day-to-day management can become more and more challenging. In this solution brief we'll provide an overview of Aerohive's new Client Health Score feature which cuts through volumes of data to show you the overall health of clients in an “at-a-glance” format, then enables you to drill down if you see a specific problem. We'll look at the statistics compiled to generate the Client Health Score's simple "green/yellow/red" view, and discuss the use of the Client Health Score in our new TeacherView feature.

Chartered on February 8, 1693 by King William III and Queen Mary II, The College of William & Mary is a breathtaking blend of classic architecture and cutting edge technology. As the second oldest college in America and one of Intel's "50 Most Unwired College Campuses", William & Mary has unique challenges and extremely high standards for its wireless networks.

Aerohive Networks has pioneered a new WLAN architecture called the Cooperative Control architecture. It is a controller-less architecture that eliminates the downsides of controllers while providing the management, mobility, scalability, resiliency, and security that enterprises require in their wireless infrastructure. This paper discusses the benefits of this approach and the key underlying technologies of cooperative control, best path forwarding and policy enforcement at the edge.

Drakes Supermarkets consists of 57 stores throughout South Australia and Queensland, with a turnover in excess of $1B and 5500 employees nationally. They are the largest independent grocery retailer in Australia. Despite its expansion, the company has managed to keep its focus on the important aspects of the supermarket business – THE CUSTOMER – by always striving to provide superior customer service. And having an Aerohive Wi-Fi network has helped with the continued customer focus - with the ease of deployment of the network, easy centralised management and the network's compatibility with the latest retail applications, Drakes can spend their time focusing on delivering a friendly retail experience.

This demo will show you how Aerohive's unique Dynamic Airtime Scheduling feature works in a lab scenario.'

Join industry analyst Craig Mathias and WLAN veteran and Airespace founder Bob O'Hara as they discuss WLAN architecture including the drawbacks of controller-based systems.

WLAN industry veteran Bob O'Hara and analyst Craig Mathias talk about elements that affect scalability, including performance, resiliency, and management.

Fentress Architects is a global design firm with offices in the U.S. and London. Founded by Curtis Fentress in 1980, the firm has designed $26 billion of architectural projects worldwide.

Located in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK, Fitzharrys Secondary School implemented a wireless network in 2003 to enhance computer access in the classroom. When autonomous APs could no longer provide the coverage and performance of the growing demands on the network, Fitzharrys turned to Aerohive to meet all of their wireless requirements.

The Framingham Public School District in Massachusetts decided to model itself like a university. By working toward enabling network access for people to use the devices they already own, the district's goal is to embrace and support personal systems, while preserving the network's safety and security. The best way to achieve this goal within budget, the district decided, was to incorporate Aerohive's wireless LAN.

The Hampden Academy is part of the Maine School Administrative District 22, a public school district in central Maine. The district uses a variety of Aerohive Access Points for its high-performance, easy-to-scale wireless LAN. Aerohive allows the new high school to meet the demands of Apple devices.

The Borough of Hartlepool on the northeast coast of England is striving to give teachers and students broadband access in an effort to improve learning opportunities, both in and out of the classroom. The project, known as the Hartepool LearnNet, allows for wireless LANs in schools, as well as other locations where students gather, such as community centers, youth centers, and libraries, so any student with a laptop or personal device can access the Internet and on-line curriculum applications from wireless hot spots.

Operating in a distributed enterprise environment across the UK and US, and with an increasingly mobile-savvy workforce, Haymarket faced heightened demand from employees for using smart devices in the workplace. Recognising that a high performance wireless network was critical to enabling mobile productivity, the IT team chose to implement Aerohive to provide a flexible, business grade WLAN to support the secure adoption of smart devices as well as guest access internationally across its offices.

Aerohive's Abby Strong walks us through the new features in HiveManager 6.0, including the updated dashboard, application visibility and control, and Google Maps integration.

HiveManager Online is the first cloud-based, enterprise-class Wi-Fi management solution and is a breakthrough in management simplicity, flexibility, and redundancy. HiveManager Online gives financial control back to organizations by offering a linearly-scalable Wi-Fi infrastructure management platform with no up-front management costs. Combined with HiveAPs, it's the simplest instantiation of enterprise Wi-Fi.

Holly Area School District in Holly, Michigan is one of the schools leading the Wi-Fi-in-Education charge. A visit to Apple's Cupertino campus gave the district's Director of Technology, Matt Nello, the inspiration deploy MacBooks, iMacs, iPads, iPhones, iPod touch devices and Apple’s 21C digital media tools to the district's students, and connecting them to the network via Aerohive's Wi-Fi.

Aerohive’s ID Manager is the first system to leverage the cloud to simplify and automate the deployment and maintenance of enterprise guest management. ID Manager combines industry-leading authentication integration with the deployment-tested Aerohive Cloud Services platform to eliminate the need for any additional hardware or software. 

Interview with Wi-Fi industry expert, Joe Epstein, co-founder of Meru Networks and CEO of stealth-mode security startup Virtuata.

Isle of Wight County is one of the oldest county governments in the U.S, and like many cities and counties, Isle of Wight County Schools rely on high-tech learning tools to help give its students the best education possible. With the exceptional goal of giving the students access to the Internet (and devices for accessing the Internet) the county turned to Aerohive to reach that goal for their 5,500 students attending one of nine K-12 schools: two high schools, two middle schools and five elementary schools, as well as for the 900 faculty and staff.

Leonardo & Co. is a major financial consulting group with offices throughout Europe. They chose Aerohive to gain a network infrastructure that is manageable, scalable and high performance. The company has successfully simplified provisioning, reduced management overheads and enhanced security control with their wireless solution.

Lubbock Christian University deploys Aerohive's cooperative control HiveAPs to provide reliable WLAN connectivity to the school's multiple networks: one network for students, faculty, and staff that provides secure, encrypted access to applications and resources, another for secure, but not encrypted access, and a third that provides unsecure Internet access for guests.

As Broomfield Hospital, part of Mid Essex Hospital Service NHS Trust, undergoes a major redevelopment, the IT team is using this opportunity to integrate cutting edge wireless technology to optimize usage of medical tablet PCs, computers-on-wheels, and RFID to track beds and medical equipment. Implementing a wireless network from Aerohive allows the team to reach their goal of making the hospital 'self-aware'.

Aerohive provides comprehensive access solutions for the mobile-first enterprise. Built from the ground up for today’s challenges, Aerohive sets new standards for how to address the global trends that are impacting every organization with a unique and powerful combination of distributed networking intelligence and an industry leading, cloud services infrastructure. This allows Aerohive to deliver secure, mobility-optimized access to every site with consistent, predictable service and maximum security.

North Georgia University offers a high-quality college experience in a beautiful mountain setting, about an hour north of Atlanta. Aerohive's quality, performance and numerous WLAN features reinforce the college’s mission of excellence. The university plans to use Aerohive in cutting-edge networks, such as a gaming-only wireless network for the residence halls.

University deploys WLAN to manage 100% year-on-year growth of mobile internet device access among its students and staff

Aerohive Chief Wi-Fi Architect Devin Akin introduces the terminology used with discussing Quality of Service for wireless LANs.

Join Devin Akin, Chief Wi-Fi Architect for Aerohive, in the second installment on Quality of Service for wireless LANs.

Aerohive WLAN Architect Devin Akin will detail deployment considerations of 802.11n.

Taking consideration of a variety of technical enhancements in 802.11n with Aerohive WLAN Architect Devin Akin.

The Pender County School District in North Carolina wanted to find the most affordable, scalable, and easily managed wireless LAN. After examining all of its alternatives, the district found success with Aerohive Networks.

Regent’s College London is the UK’s largest not-for-profit college of higher education. It comprises seven schools under the umbrella of two faculties as well as a conference centre, and is based in central London. Regent’s College London assessed WLAN solutions from Aerohive and Meru, but chose Aerohive based on its ability to scale with the college’s ambitions and compelling price point.

In today’s virtual enterprise, access to corporate resources must be secure, reliable, and manageable, with consistently enforced policy while simultaneously allowing access from anywhere at any time. This is why access network strategies have become critical to business growth. If IT can empower every remote worker with the full capabilities available at headquarters, the business can differentiate itself and directly influence the company’s bottom line.

Like any massive school district, RUSD faces a mobile-device onslaught, especially because the district is implementing a one-to-one program using tablet computers. This tablet program drove the need for a high-performance, scalable, reliable WLAN at the schools.

With 50 skilled healthcare facilities and counting across Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Saber Healthcare Group is committed to providing quality care to the people of its community. Due to its rate of growth, the organization faced the need to deploy an easy-to-manage wireless network – one that would provide seamless and reliable connectivity to buildings that are distributed across vastly different locations.

Online multimedia and interactive educational applications are invading the classroom and prompting schools to take a fresh look at what’s possible with the latest in wireless LAN technology. This paper examines how schools can apply 802.11n enterprise-class Wi-Fi technology in ways that pay while overcoming such traditional challenges as shrinking budgets, high network management costs, and nagging performance and reliability troubles.

With six campuses located throughout Michigan, and courses offered online, Siena Heights University prides itself on its ability to make a private education affordable as well as its desire to embrace emerging technologies. Siena, as a leader in technology, was the first university in Michigan to offer complete wireless coverage across the main campus. However, as a result, its current wireless system was showing its age.  The IT department realized that it had a pressing need to step up its game by embracing the newer Wi-Fi standards and finding a more robust and management friendly system that would meet the expectations of today’s users as well as the challenges of the future

Skilled Healthcare, LLC, is a leading support-services provider to the long-term care profession. These locations comprise over 10,700 licensed beds.As with all such diverse healthcare companies, dealing with a combination of aging facilities and increasing wireless demands presents a challenge to enterprise-class wireless networks. That’s where Aerohive came in.

Aerohive delivers the next level in network visibility and reactive response with a new infrastructure-side performance monitoring and response system: SLA Compliance. By increasing the troubleshooting granularity and active response speed far beyond what any IT professional could accomplish manually, SLA Compliance allows IT to make Wi-Fi performance guarantees.

Sommerville College became the first University of Oxford College to embark on a project to provide blanket Wi-Fi for all staff and students using Aerohive's Wi-Fi Solution.

The SR2024 platform is a 24-port Gigabit Ethernet access switch with 4 additional 1 Gigabit SFP ports. 8 Ethernet ports support high-power PoE (Power over Ethernet), and the entire device supports the feature-rich capabilities of HiveOS, including RADIUS, 802.1X security, and cloud-based management.

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The SR2148P platform is a 48-port Gigabit Ethernet access switch with 4 additional 10 Gigabit SFP ports. All Ethernet ports support high-power PoE (Power over Ethernet+), and the entire device supports the feature-rich capabilities of HiveOS, including RADIUS, 802.1X security, and cloud-based management.

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As 1:1 laptop programs become more common and as curricula allow students more access to computing and personalization of their computers, teachers have found themselves becoming both the first line of network support for their students and the content traffic cop, which draws them away from their central role as educators. This solution brief will describe Aerohive's TeacherView application, which provides a very compelling tool to enable the network control teachers need to make 1:1 programs succeed.

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In this short video, we will introduce you to TeacherView, an innovative new WLAN product designed to make the most of laptops in the classroom.

Watch the Aerohive Story in 2 minutes!

802.11n promises to bring revolutionary advances in bandwidth, throughput, and reliability to the wireless LAN. It will also have a perhaps unforeseen impact on the wired network, as well. Bandwidth, throughput and reliability will now become an end-to-end network problem, particularly in cases where the WLAN is deployed as network infrastructure rather than as an overlay.

Toyota New Zealand has run a motorsport program, Toyota Racing Series (TRS), for the past 9 years. The TRS is a single seat formula designed to provide drivers and engineers with experience in preparing and competing in a one design championship, and provides drivers the opportunity to display their capabilities in a relevant and recognised car. With a greater number of international teams, the need to get up to the minute information to their parents, sponsors and connections throughout NZ, Europe, North America and Asia had become paramount. An Aerohive Wi-FI connection allowing up to the minute live reporting and information to team members, parents and sponsors throughout NZ and the World. With the Aerohive Wi-Fi network in place, the Toyota Racing Series reported an immediate difference in their ability to track their drivers on the track and supply this information to all interested parties.

The Client Health Score enables administrators to get a summary picture of how a client is performing at a glance.

When the technical gurus at Union School District in San Jose, CA learned of Aerohive and its controller-less architecture, they were hooked. The school district was already testing a controller-based system but did an about face after being introduced to Aerohive for the first time during a webinar.

Val Thorens Ski Resort already had a Wi-Fi network for internal administrative use, but wanted to expand the network to offer skiers internet access whilst on the slopes. Val Thorens’ IT team wanted a centralised solution that could be remotely managed, and cost-effective to deploy with minimal effort.

The healthcare environment naturally lends itself to wireless networking, given the inherently mobile nature of physicians, nurses, orderlies, and others who move from bed to bed or examining room to examining room, ministering to patients. This paper looks at how healthcare providers are using wireless LANs creatively to improve patient care and to realize much-needed cost efficiencies. It also discusses the primary challenges health organizations face in their deployments and offers up solutions for successfully addressing them.

Presenter: Devin Akin

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Presenter: Abby Hassel Strong

Once you've enabled your people to work from virtually anywhere, anytime, and on any device, you need to maintain essential security and control under the constant pressure to drive down cost, while increasing productivity and growth. Enter the Cloud.

Presented by Craig Mathias, Principal, Farpoint Group, June 21, 2011

The AP110 is a high performance 802.11n (2x2) MIMO access point with a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port and delivers a data rate of 300Mbps with a single dual-band radio. The AP110 is ideal for deployments where a single radio 802.11a/b/g/n solution is sufficient, such as small retail environments, telecommuters and micro-branches.

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Aerohive’s Bonjour Gateway is designed to vastly simplify the support of Apple-compatible devices in the enterprise. Of all the solutions available for supporting Bonjour, only Aerohive’s Bonjour Gateway offers innovative multi-vendor integration, enterprise-class control features, and the simplicity of running on a standard VMware environment.

Aerohive’s Cloud VPN Gateway (CVG) is designed to simplify VPN termination for thousands of remote workers in an innovative, new way. The heart of the CVG is a lightweight, software-based solution for VMware-compliant equipment; the soul of the CVG is an enterprise-class VPN concentrator terminating thousands of VPN tunnels from remote access locations.

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Aerohive Networks HiveManager Online NMS is an enterprise-class management system for Aerohive access points and routers, delivered as a cloud-based service. HiveManager Online offers the same simple policy creation, firmware upgrades, and centralized monitoring options as the on-premise version of HiveManager, without the need to deploy another device in your network.

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Aerohive HiveOS is the operating system that powers all Aerohive devices. HiveOS Routing delivers non-stop networking, routing with VPNs and enterprise firewall security to remote and branch offices.

Aerohive's ID Manager is the first enterprise guest management system to leverage the cloud to simplify and automate the deployment and maintenance of enterprise guest management.

The Aerohive indoor single-band lightweight antenna is well suited for applications where 120° H-plane and 70° E-plane is most optimal.