Network Communications News (NCN) May 2017 | Page 8

INDUSTRY NEWS
Cambium unveils
802.11ac Wave 2
Access Points
Cambium Networks has announced
new and comprehensive
802.11ac Wave 2 Access Points
(AP), software features, and
management capabilities for its
cnPilot Wi-Fi products.
The indoor and outdoor APs
now offer high speed access,
including cloud controller
capabilities, with an emphasis
on making it easier than ever for
enterprises and service providers
to expand their Wi-Fi solutions
with ease.
Atul Bhatnagar, president
and CEO of Cambium Networks,
said: ‘cnPilot provides affordable
connectivity that can be rapidly
deployed to establish high-speed
wireless connectivity anywhere
and connect the unconnected in
enterprise, industrial, education,
hospitality, and retail applications.
For enterprise applications of 20
APs or more, an operator can outfit
a facility for 50 per cent less than
most other quality brands with the
cnPilot solution.’
Cambium Networks said the new
autoPilot autonomous management
option makes the controller
deployment easy and affordable.
Vibhu Vivek, senior vice
president of products at Cambium
Networks, said: ‘With autoPilot,
the Wi-Fi AP is the controller,
suppor ting 32 APs or 1,000
clients. This solution has no
license or recurring fees while still
offering investment protection to
the Wi-Fi network administrator,
with the option to migrate to a
cloud or local controller solution
when needed.’
For further information visit:
www.cambiumnetworks.com
Pulse Secure continues successful
growth strategy across EMEA
Pulse Secure has announced details of its successful
and continued expansion across EMEA that over
the last 24 months has seen the company deliver
sustained double digit revenue growth, along with an
expanded channel partner community serving more
countries across the region.
Since launching as an independent entity in 2014,
Pulse Secure has invested significant resource into
expanding its footprint across EMEA. The team has
grown to 28 staff including channel managers and
technical experts to help support a community of 39
distribution offices.
Paul Donovan vice president EMEA sales at Pulse
Secure, said: ‘The last two years has been a fantastic
journey with Pulse Secure emerging into the market
an innovative and highly focused company and no
more so has this been apparent as across EMEA which has seen our active channel
community grow to around 1,200 partners.’
Mr Donavan said that expansion at a partner level has matched growth of the Pulse
Secure EMEA team that in the last year has added executive management and technical
engineering covering 50 countries with new offices in Italy, Southern Germany and
currently recruiting for Saudi Arabia.
He added: ‘Our recruitment drive is continuing in an effort to ensure that we are
better able to support our channel engage with prospects, enable technical evaluations
and ultimately deliver successful projects.
‘This commitment is vital as the wider market goes through a transition towards
a more mobile and cloud centric environment where secure access needs to be agile
enough to deal with the new hybrid IT.’
For further information visit: www.pulsesecure.net
ExtraHop receives application
certification from ServiceNow
ExtraHop has received certification of its application with ServiceNow.
Raja Mukerji, chief customer officer and co-founder of ExtraHop, said that
certification by ServiceNow signifies that the ExtraHop application bundle for
ServiceNow has successfully completed a set of defined tests focused on integration
interoperability, security and performance.
By combining real time IT analytics from ExtraHop with intelligent IT services
management from ServiceNow, IT organisations can now automate intelligent workflows
in real time based on events as they happen across the entire environment.
Mr Mukerji said that this approach dramatically improves efficiency and enables IT
teams to identify per formance problems and security incidents and restore services
before end users are affected.
He added: ‘ServiceNow has played a
critical role in IT transformation, helping
organisations replace inefficient work
patterns with intelligent workflows that
improve service delivery and customer
experience.
‘This integration with ExtraHop takes
IT services management to the next level,
feeding ServiceNow with the richest
source of insight into the performance,
availability, and security of all systems
and the users relying on them.’
For further information visit:
www.extrahop.com
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