Campus Wide Wireless Connectivity
Personal laptops are now mandatory at practically every college and university in the US and Europe. That's why higher education is the fastest adopter of wireless LANs and is especially leading demand for higher data rates offered by 802.11n access points.  

Because of the prolific use of laptops, PDAs and other Wi-Fi devices, Wi-Fi coverage is needed everywhere including outdoors. 

Trapeze offers the only WLAN solution that provides completely seamless roaming from indoor networks to outdoor networks. That's because only Trapeze uses the same architecture and service deployment model across both types of networks.

Easy Deployment and Management
Managing large multi-site wireless networks spanning hundreds of acres is no trivial task. That's why Network Administrators should take a great deal of care to thoroughly evaluate the management tools they will use to plan, configure, deploy and monitor their wireless networks. The right management tools can dramatically affect the price / performance of the initial implementation and minimize the time it takes to maintain the network and troubleshoot issues as they arise.

Now in its 7th generation, RingMaster is a world class, award-winning management platform that makes it extremely easy for a network manager to plan, deploy, configure and monitor every aspect of their multi-site networks completely remotely, all from a single console.

Performance and Scaleability
When you have hundreds of students entering an auditorium, all opening their laptops at the same time, you need much more than high-performance. You need intelligent traffic management to balance loads and ensure that identity-based access profiles can be both enforced and honored. 

With its highly distributed Smart Mobile architecture, featuring local switching, client load balancing, AP load balancing, and band steering Trapeze can handle much higher loads and deliver better overall service than any competitor. 

Mission Critical Availability
With thousands of students practically living on the internet every day, reliability is crucial. Not just access level reliability, but system-level reliability is needed to prevent catastrophic meltdown of services if one critical WLAN controller should fail.

While many vendors claim reliability, no one comes close to Trapeze's NonStop Wireless capabilities. With most WLAN solutions configuring N:1 redundancy is complex and keeping it in step with adds moves and changes, is an impossible nightmare. And then, when a crisis happens still hundreds of students get disconnected.  Trapeze's controller virtualization approach is different - it delivers NonStop availability even at a session level - hitless failover with zero downtime - and requires no maintenance to keep track of ongoing adds, moves and changes.