OmniAccess Wireless LAN Overview

The Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess™ WLAN Switch/controller product family provides the industry's strongest integrated security feature set with a comprehensive line of WLAN switch/controllers, each designed for a specific environment such as the enterprise campus, building, and branch office environments.

The OmniAccess WLAN Switch/controller family includes:

The OmniAccess WLAN Switch/controller family is managed by the OmniVista 3600 Air Manager.

Software

Standard with every wireless LAN, the Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess base software provides unprecedented control over the entire wireless environment and enables advanced adaptive WLAN, identity-based security and application continuity services.

The base feature set of Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess wireless LAN base software includes sophisticated authentication and encryption, protection against rogue access points (APs), seamless mobility with fast roaming, RF management and analysis tools, centralized configuration, location tracking, and more.

OmniAccess wireless LAN base software can be complemented with the following optional modules:

OmniAccess Wireless RFProtect module
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniAccess Wireless RFProtect™ module is an optional software module installed on Alcatel-Lucent WLAN Switch/controllers. RFProtect safeguards the network infrastructure against wireless security threats as well as provides a critical layer of visibility into sources of radio frequency (RF) interference and their effect on wireless LAN (WLAN) performance.
OmniAccess Policy Enforcement Firewall Next Generation
The OmniAccess Wireless Policy Enforcement Firewall Next Generation (PEFNG) module provides identity-based security, quality of service (QoS) control and traffic management capabilities to a user-centric network.
OmniAccess Virtual Intranet Access Agent
Alcatel-Lucent offers numerous access points (APs) that work with OmniAccess WLAN switches, each offering a different set of features allowing customers to select what they need for their particular application. The APs are small, lightweight and can be securely deployed in a variety of locations including outdoors for some models.