SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group and the southern African distributor for AirDefense, today announced the availability of two new sensor models for its advanced wireless intrusion prevention system, AirDefense Enterprise 7.0.
The new sensors can be deployed with AirDefense's ZeroCabling solution, which lowers the total cost of ownership by eliminating the need to pull an additional Ethernet cable. Traditionally, cabling costs exceed the sensor or access point hardware costs, but with ZeroCabling companies can reduce deployments costs significantly.
In a recent Network Computing review of Wireless IDS/IPS systems, AirDefense was ranked first in the 'Sensor/Probe Design and Implementation Category'.
The new Model 500 sensors include the M510 sensor, a compact sensor with internal diversity antennas for most office applications. The exterior casing on the M510 sensor has the appearance of a common smoke detector, making it ideal to inconspicuously mount in any building for security monitoring and location tracking. The M520 sensor is designed with a compact metal enclosure, better suited for industrial applications. The external rubber duck antennas allow the sensor to be mounted in any orientation, while ensuring maximum coverage. Both Model 500 series sensors are plenum rated (UL 2043) for mounting in plenum space and comply with the ROHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substances) directive for import into the European Union member nations.
The Model 500 series sensors can accept Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) from an 802.3af compliant switch or midspan. Using PoE eliminates the need to run separate power to the sensor, reducing the installation cost of the sensor. In addition, AirDefense offers a unique ZeroCabling solution to quickly and cost-effectively deploy wireless security monitoring sensors in existing wireless LAN deployments. AirDefense offers an innovative, standards-compliant, power and data sharing solution that allows a single Cat5 cable to service both an access point as well as a dedicated sensor. This patent-pending technique can virtually eliminate the cost of running extra cables for each sensor.
"ZeroCabling technology developed by AirDefense offers enterprises a significant cost savings by eliminating the need to hard wire each sensor to a dedicated Ethernet cable," commented David Thomas, vice-president of product strategy at AirDefense. "As the leader in wireless intrusion prevention market, AirDefense is committed to offering corporations the most complete wireless intrusion prevention/detection products that are more powerful than any other products on the market and come at reasonable costs."
For further information, please contact Bianca Maritz at telephone (011) 257 8600; fax (011) 257 8699; e-mail biancam@securedata.co.za.
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AirDefense is the market leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security and monitoring and is trusted by more Fortune 500 companies, healthcare organisations and high-security government agencies for enterprise wireless protection. It is ranked among Red Herring's Top 100 Private Companies in North American and its products provide the most advanced solutions for rogue wireless detection, policy enforcement and intrusion prevention, both inside and outside an organisation's physical locations and wired networks. Common Criteria-certified, AirDefense enterprise-class products scale to support single offices as well as organisations with hundreds of locations around the globe. Founded in 2001, AirDefense is based in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA, and serves hundreds of government agencies and blue chip corporations.
SecureData
SecureData, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, endpoint security, network security, intrusion prevention and authentication and identity management.
SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs.
As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies as well as for AirDefense, Application Security, eEye, Network Engines, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, St Bernard and Websense. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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