Branch Networking

In today’s modern enterprise, designing a network that will accommodate the new normal  - a world where users are constantly moving and connecting wirelessly from a myriad of mobile devices – has typically been a challenge. Administrators are forced to overlay their legacy network infrastructure and...

The newly released Aerohive BR200 routers expand on our existing Branch on Demand solution with new features and capabilities that will appeal to mid-to-large branch locations. The Branch on Demand solution provides simplified deployment, management, and consistent policy enforcement for enterprise...

We just released an upgrade to our Branch On Demand solution - the BR200 Branch Router – which is ideal for organizations such as retail stores, long-term healthcare facilities, and mid-market and commercial enterprises with highly dispersed remote locations with little to no IT support.Here to give...

In the first blog about our new Bonjour Gateway, I wrote about why the feature was special. Many of those advantages come from the hard work of building a robust Bonjour foundation for protocol-level intelligence. Why did we build so many protocol smarts into this feature? After all, Bonjour is...

I said it in another article, but it’s worth repeating: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and the consumerization of IT may be overused as market terms but they are unquestionably a trend that is changing network architectures in almost every enterprise. In a recent survey by Dimensional Research of 750 front-...

Aerohive’s Branch on Demand solution provides simplified deployment, management, and consistent policy enforcement for branch offices and teleworkers. The BR100 router and HiveAP 330/350 access points can provide complete wired and wireless networking to meet branch office needs while unifying wired...

By Jim Metzler, Ashton, Metzler & Associates Over the last decade, driven by a combination of business requirements and technology enablers, the typical enterprise branch office went through a fundamental transformation. Now, driven by a potent combination of factors, the branch office is poised to go...

Recently, I was teaching a wireless class in the Washington, D.C. area and ran into a bit of trouble. The wireless devices we were using in the classroom were functioning perfectly well. However, the one thing that most users forget is that at some point the wireless communications need to go...

Virtualization, cloud computing, and wireless technologies are fundamentally changing enterprise computing, providing revolutionary gains in productivity and cost savings. They are also driving a complete rethinking of enterprise networking architectural strategy. The well-documented impact of...

Who says listening to webinars doesn’t pay? That hour you spend listening can yield access to really useful information and industry experts (like Gartner analyst Mark Fabbi) – and sometimes it yields a little something extra (like a tablet giveaway).We recently put on a webinar in which we...