HP (Hewlett-Packard) 5300xl User Manual

• ProCurve Intelligent Edge Wireless
Access Point 530

• ProCurve Wireless Access Point 420

• Antennas

• ProCurve Mobility Manager

• ProCurve Wireless Edge Services Module
xl Module for the Switch 5300xl series,
and the Wireless Edge Services zl Module
to enable wireless services on the
ProCurve Switch 5400zl series (new)
and Switch 8212zl (new)

• ProCurve Switch 5300xl series, Switch
5400zl series or Switch 8212zl

• ProCurve Wireless Services Redundant xl
Module and zl Module (new)

• ProCurve Radio Ports 210, 220 and 230

• Antennas

• ProCurve Mobility Manager

• ProCurve Access Control Server 745wl

• ProCurve Switch xl Access Controller
Module

ProCurve Networking by HP

ProCurve Mobility

Infrastructure Solutions

ProCurve Networking by HP has taken mobility to an exciting new stage, unifying wired and wireless networking into a secure,
cohesive mobility infrastructure. ProCurve offers a comprehensive family of wireless offerings, with solutions for both
standalone and coordinated access points — all consistently managed under the ProCurve Adaptive EDGE Architecture™
framework. ProCurve's mobility infrastructure solutions encompass the following:

Each of these mobility approaches provides advantages for different environments. By offering a range of approaches that
are all part of a consistent framework, ProCurve enables streamlined and unified wired/wireless management resulting in
reduced complexity and less operational expense; a consistent and customized user experience regardless of how or where
the user connects; and the ability to support both current and emerging applications without future infrastructure upgrades.

Standalone Access Points

Wireless LAN System Secure Access Series

Enterprise WLAN Technology Flourishes

Enterprises are finding that wireless LAN (WLAN)
technology is good for business: providing workers with
more flexible connection to the corporate network can
raise productivity as well as increase the overall agility
of the enterprise.

Not surprisingly, then, industry analysts are finding
companies enthusiastic about WLAN. According to a
Forrester Research survey conducted in June 2007,
“planned adoption of in-house WLANs continues to grow
in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, with
46 percent of European enterprises having already
adopted a WLAN, while 30 percent have an interest in
deploying, suggesting a continuing trend towards more
widespread adoption

1

”. According to Gartner’s Wireless

LAN Equipment Forecast, “Global spending on the
enterprise Wireless LAN market is expected to increase
by 8 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
between 2005 and 2010

2

”.

WLAN deployments are particularly prevalent in vertical
industries such as healthcare, retail, education and
logistics. In these areas, mobility is woven into the fabric
of everyday operations. For instance, healthcare workers
in hospitals are constantly on the move as they attend to
patients. Being able to gain immediate access to patient­related information from anywhere in the hospital can
dramatically improve decisions and outcomes for
patients and boost healthcare workers' efficiency.

In the retail world, the ability for workers to respond
quickly to customers' questions from anywhere in the
store can significantly enhance the customer retail
experience and the likelihood of a sale. On university
campuses, liberating instructors and students from the
constraints of wired network access opens new
possibilities for more creative and effective instruction
and research.

More broadly, powerful new applications are emerging
that enhance the attractiveness of WLANs in areas
beyond the early-adopting vertical industries. These
applications include Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN), which
combines WLAN and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
technologies to enable voice communications over a
WLAN, and guest access, which is the need to permit yet
control network access by non-employees. The future
appears bright with other application areas such as
location-based services and presence as well. For users
and network administrators alike, the promise of using
one network fabric, WLAN, to deploy these diverse
emerging applications is very compelling..

Challenges to WLAN Adoption

Despite the obvious advantages of WLAN, many
enterprises remain on the sidelines. Some are reluctant
to entrust sensitive corporate information to WLANs,
concerned about security safeguards for data protection,
user authentication, rogue device detection and
unauthorized intrusions. Other enterprises balk at the
added complexity of managing separate wired and
wireless networks.

2

1

Chris Silva, "Tackling Ubiquitous Enterprise Mobility".

Forrester, June 2007 (based on 166 respondents).

2

Christian Canales, “Forecast: Wireless LAN Equipment, Worldwide,

2003-2010”. Gartner, June 2006.

3

Still others feel bombarded by complex and often
contradictory information about the rapidly developing
WLAN market segment. This market overflows with
a wide range of WLAN technologies, products and
architectures such as "fat" access points, "thin" access
points with WLAN controllers and other approaches.
A related challenge is navigating the confusing
marketplace of various vendors, many of whom lack
the longevity and trusted brands that enterprises seek
to safeguard their investments.

Another challenge is that wireless networks have for
the most part evolved separately from wired networks.
As a result, even networking vendors that offer both
wired and wireless equipment and network
management products have sold them as two separate
"tracks," leaving much of the coordination up to
individual customers.

All enterprises, regardless of their stage of WLAN
adoption, want clear answers about which mobility
solutions to deploy, as well as when and where to deploy
them. And as organizations begin to rely on WLANs as
they now rely on wired LANs, they increasingly care
about the security, ease of deployment, session
persistence, quality of service and — perhaps most
importantly — ease of management of their entire
mobility infrastructure once it is in place.

ProCurve Offers a Unified Approach

All ProCurve products and solutions — both wired
and wireless — share the foundation of the ProCurve
Adaptive EDGE Architecture (AEA), a cohesive vision
designed to best meet network infrastructure needs both
today and in the future. The ProCurve Adaptive EDGE
Architecture approach is to push intelligence to the edge
of the network, where users connect, enabling command
from the center with control to the edge.

The ProCurve AEA foundation led to the ProCurve
Adaptive Networks vision, an approach to network
infrastructures that can significantly boost
organizations' ability to compete effectively in the face of
rapid change. By being adaptive to users, to applications
and to organizations, Adaptive Networks fortify security,
increase productivity and reduce complexity across the
organization.

ProCurve's mobility offerings are a prime example
of the ProCurve Adaptive Network vision in action.
They provide maximum choice and flexibility to meet
a wide array of customer needs, securely and without
added complexity. Because ProCurve's wireless solutions
have evolved within the same AEA framework as its
wired solutions, ProCurve unifies wired and wireless
networking in ways not previously possible.

This holistic approach enables enterprises to manage
all their mobility options consistently with one another,
as well as with wired network solutions. ProCurve's
centralized, network-wide management and secure
access control makes it easy to deploy and centrally
manage a secure, yet flexible, multi-service network that
can lead to greater productivity as well as better return
on IT investment.

In addition, ProCurve's infrastructure is based heavily
on open standards and strengthened by industry-leading
warranties and robust service and support. As a result,
ProCurve offers built-in investment protection for its
mobility solutions, allowing enterprises to adapt easily
to changing needs and incorporate future applications
— such as VoWLAN — into the same infrastructure
deployed today.

Wireless Edge

Services Module

PoE switch

(ProCurve or other)

Rest of

Network

ProCurve Manager Plus

with Identity Driven Management

ProCurve Switch

5300xl, 5400zl or

Switch 8212zl

Radio Ports

Radio Ports

ProCurve WLAN System Topology

Overview of ProCurve Mobility Infrastructure
Solutions

ProCurve's expansion of its mobility offerings means
that organizations can now choose the WLAN
approaches and products that best fit their individual
needs.

ProCurve Wireless LAN System

ProCurve's wireless LAN system comprises integrated,
highly available wired and wireless services aimed at
campus deployments and medium to large remote sites.
ProCurve wireless LAN systems are available for a wide
range of deployment scenarios, from the LAN edge to the
core. Wireless LAN systems can be deployed using the
majority of ProCurve chassis switch offerings, including
the ProCurve Switch 5300xl series, Switch 5400zl series
and Switch 8212zl switches.

A ProCurve wireless LAN system consists of a ProCurve
Wireless Edge Services Module, one or more ProCurve
Radio Ports (coordinated access points) and Switch
5300xl series chassis or choice of ProCurve premier zl
switch chassis. When combined into a complete wireless
edge services solution, these products create a secure,
unified wired and wireless ProCurve intelligent edge
with the following business benefits:

• Centralized, unified wired and wireless network
management, which reduces operational overhead
and costs

• Highly secure, yet flexible, network access to accelerate
business opportunities

• Business-critical application support, including
a VoWLAN-ready architecture

• Highly available operations and network resiliency
to maintain business continuity

• Easy deployment, scalability and pay-as-you-go
capacity expansion via software license to reduce
total cost of ownership

ProCurve Standalone Access Points

ProCurve standalone access points provide an excellent
option for small organizations to enterprises with some
level of distributed operation, such as satellite branches
or campus environments.

The ProCurve Access Point 530 is a highly intelligent
standalone access point ideal for distributed sites. The
530 intelligent edge AP is an enterprise-class, dual-radio
access point with support for 802.11b/g and 802.11a/b/g
standards. Its maximum flexibility in deployment and
extensive built-in capabilities make it an ideal solution
for distributed office environments (e.g., organizations
having many, smaller remote or branch offices or
standalone small offices).

The Access Point 530 offers the following:

• Robust functionality including a comprehensive range
of industry-proven user authentication methods and
wireless security.

• Consistent, centralized network management for
reduced operational overhead and costs — with
centrally administered, edge-enforced, identity-driven
access control via ProCurve Identity Driven Manager
(IDM), for highly secure yet flexible control of access
to the network.