Company Overview
Bluesocket is the leader in open wireless security and management solutions that simplify the complexities of mobile enterprises. Bluesocket provides a comprehensive end-to-end product portfolio that enables leading universities, healthcare organizations, government institutions, libraries, and enterprises to deploy, secure, manage and profit from their wireless LANs. Bluesocket's products allow its customers to build secure, manageable, global WLAN deployments that support thousands of mobile workers simultaneously.
Bluesocket’s end-to-end wireless local area network (WLAN) solution set features the award-winning BlueSecure™ Controller, a scalable WLAN Controller that supports enterprise WLAN deployments from the network edge to the core. BlueSecure Controllers provide an open, multi-vendor solution that integrates easily into existing infrastructure; seamless Layer 3 roaming with Bluesocket’s patent-pending Secure Mobility® technology; flexible policy enforcement; universal WLAN authentication for diverse users/devices; strong data encryption; intrusion detection and worm protection, with integrated client scanning for endpoint security; and VoIP support via advanced QoS and bandwidth management features.
BlueSecure Access Points. Bluesocket's BlueSecure Access Points (APs) are next-generation, "thin" access points that work in conjunction with BlueSecure Controllers for enterprise WLAN deployments. BlueSecure Access Points feature dual radios supporting 802.11a/b/g in a plenum-rated housing with fixed omni-directional antennas (Model AP-1500) and optional external antennas (Model AP-1540). Bluesocket’s enterprise-class MIMO AP (Model AP-1700) integrates a sophisticated six-antenna array that combines multiple signal paths to provide significantly up to 30% better in-building 802.11 a/b/g wireless coverage and performance today while being fully field-upgradeable for 802.11n compatibility tomorrow. BlueSecure APs are completely plug-and-play, requiring no manual configuration. Bluesocket’s DynamicRF™ technology automatically adjusts AP power and channel settings, and provides RF coverage hole detection and self-healing coverage for AP failures, thereby ensuring interference-free communication.
Bluesocket's BlueView™ Management System simplifies WLAN management by providing true centralized configuration and maintenance, policy-management, and monitoring capabilities for your WLAN Infrastructure. BlueView’s powerful scheduling tool enables you to automate BlueSecure Controller and Access Point maintenance and provisioning tasks such as backing up and restoring configurations, pushing out policy or configuration changes, upgrading system software, and installing software patches or new WLAN deployments. Dashboard views give administrators complete system status of BlueSecure Controllers and Access Points enabling a quick response to any issue that may arise.
Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner employs a predictive design approach which uniquely allows companies to consider the context of the environment and predict RF coverage and capacity before deploying any hardware resources. Wireless LANPlanner enables network planners to import a map of the facility, note the contents and construction materials, designate user regions and applications to be used and place equipment. The designer then interactively simulates how the wireless signals will propagate and fine-tunes the network design with “what if” analysis to determine optimum performance.
Designed to address the needs of High Data Density™ wireless networks, Bluesocket's systems uniquely deliver Secure Mobility® through an intelligent, centralized management architecture--to maximize the productivity benefits of a mobile enterprise, while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of WLANs and simplifying wireless access for users and network managers alike.
Bluesocket award-winning solutions are deployed in more than 47 countries worldwide. More than 1700 educational, corporate and government institutions, including Harvard University, Honeywell, Universal Health Services, Toyota, and Parker Hannifin have all "Bluesocketed" their WiFi wireless local area networks (WLANs) in order to make them more secure and better managed.
Product Overview
BlueSecure™ Controller Family
Open solutions to secure and manage WLANs from the branch office to the enterprise.
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BlueSecure™ Controller Family
BlueSecure 600
BlueSecure 1200
BlueSecure 2100
BlueSecure 5200
BlueSecure 7200 |
Delivering trust and simplicity in a complex wireless world.
Wireless local area networks are being deployed at a record pace as the need for mobile connectivity both within and outside the workplace increases. By equipping employees with mobile devices, leading-edge enterprises remove the barriers to networking and communication, increase productivity, and gain competitive advantage.
Even with the obvious cost savings and productivity gains, wireless LAN technology presents significant challenges for IT professionals. How do you support a growing number of wireless devices and competing standards, protect valuable computer resources from the growing threat of Internet viruses and worms, overcome bandwidth limitations, protect the network from unauthorized users, and integrate your WLAN into an existing wired infrastructure? The answer—Bluesocket’s BlueSecure Controller family.
Utilizing Bluesocket’s Secure Mobility ® technology for wireless data and voice applications, BlueSecure Controllers provide high-performance, reliable, policy-based WLAN security and management solutions that have been deployed by hundreds of large institutions, enterprises, and public access providers.
Enterprise-wide WLAN Solutions from the Edge to the Core
| HOW IT WORKS |
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| The BlueSecure Controller acts as a firewall between the wireless LAN access points and the wired LAN, and requires no changes to existing wired LAN hardware or user client software. Additional BlueSecure Controllers can be connected to provide hot failover capability, as well as scalability and subnet mobility across the enterprise. |
Indoor Access Points
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BlueSecure Access Point
1500/1540
(BSAP-1500/BSAP-1540)
Next generation “thin” Access Points
that provide a simple, secure, centrally managed Wireless LAN solution. |
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NEW! BlueSecure Access
Point 1700 (BSAP-1700)
The first enterprise-class Wi-Fi Certified MIMO Access Point. |
BlueSecure ™ Access Points are the next-generation, "thin" access point (AP) that works in conjunction with BlueSecure Controllers for enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) deployments. The BlueSecure Access Point features dual radios supporting 802.11 a/b/g in a plenum-rated housing with fixed omni-directional antennas (Model AP-1500) and optional external antennas (Model AP-1540).
BlueSecure Access Points extend and complement the industry-leading, enterprise-class WLAN security and management capabilities provided by BlueSecure Controllers. While providing industry-standard radio and security functions, role-based policy management and universal authentication functions are offloaded to centralized BlueSecure Controllers, making BlueSecure APs cost-effective and simple to deploy and manage.
Outdoor Access Points
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BlueSecure Outdoor Access Point1600
The Bluesocket outdoor wireless to support a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint building-to-building bridge function
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The Bluesocket outdoor wireless bridge/AP utilizes 802.11a to support a point-to-pointor point-to-multipoint building-to-building bridge function, while simultaneouslyusing 802.11b/g to support wireless connection for outdoor user access. The outdoorAP is designed with a rugged weatherproof housing, a durable mounting bracket,includes weatherproof Ethernet and console cables, and a PoE power inserter.
Building to Building Bridging
Forget the expensive cables or private lines and link multiple buildings together usingindustry-standard 802.11 Wi-Fi. The BSAP-1600 uses AES encryption to protect yourdata as it passes over the air and with Bluesocket’s advanced antenna technology,buildings can be up to 12 miles (20km) apart.
Outdoor Wireless Access
The BSAP-1600 can also be used to extend your organization’s Wi-Fi network tooutdoor locations for user access. Outdoor Wi-Fi networks can be as simple asconnecting users in a common outdoor area or as expansive as bridging the outdoornetwork to cover a large-scale area, such as a hospital, college, or enterprise campus.The BSAP-1600 can act as both a mobile user Access Point and a wireless bridge tobackhaul the traffic back to your Ethernet wired networks.
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| BlueSecure BSAP-1600 Specifications |
| Dual Radios Supporting: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g |
| Wi-Fi certified |
| Outdoor specialized Power over Ethernet support |
| Antennas: External antennas only |
| Bridge mode: WEP, WPAv2 w/AES.AP Mode: WEP, 802.1x/RADIUS,WPA/RADIUS, WPA-PSK,WPAv2 w/AES. SSID-to-VLANmapping (up to 8), MAC ACL List |
| Voice QoS: WMM (802.11e) |
| Operating Temperature: -40°to 149°F (-40°C to 65°C) |
| Other Environment: Transportation Environment ETS 300019-2-2 Class 2.3 Pubic TransportationStorage Environment Shock: IEC 68-2-29 Drop IEC 68-2-32 Wind (Operational) 90 MPH; Wind (Survival) 125 MPH |
| Electrical/Safety Compliance: UL 60950, CSA 22.2, IEC 60950, EN 60950, TUV-GS Mark |
| EMI & Susceptibility: FCC Class B Part 15, ICES-003,EN301.489-1, EN301.489-17,EN55022, EN55024 |
| Radios: ETSI 300 328 (11b/g), 301 893 (11a Full range), 301 489 (DC power) FCC Part 15C15.247/15.207 (11b/g), Part 15E15.407 (11a Full range) Wi-Fi, DGT,TELEC, RSS210( Canada) C-Tick |
| Dimensions: Length: 7.68”, Width: 7.48”, Height: 2.91”, Weight: 3.4 pounds |
BlueView™ Management System
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BlueView™ Management System
Centralized configuration,
monitoring, policy enforcement and maintenance for your WLAN infrastructure. |
Configuring, monitoring, and managing multiple WLANs has often required the time-consuming laborious task of touching multiple devices deployed in multiple locations. Bluesocket’s BlueView™ Management System simplifies WLAN management by providing true centralized configuration and maintenance, policy-management, and monitoring capabilities for the BlueSecure™ Controllers and Access Points securing your WLANs.
Auto-Discover Your WLANs
BlueView automatically discovers BlueSecure Controllers across a configurable range of IP addresses or networks. Optionally, administrators can configure BlueView to discover and manage specific Controllers by entering individual devices. Once discovered, BlueView places BlueSecure Controllers and the Access Points associated with those Controllers into groups which can be based on organizational structure, location, or departmental management administration.
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| The BlueView™ Management System eliminates the labor-intensive task of configuring multiple devices deployed in multiple locations by enabling you to provision, configure, and manage all of your WLAN deployments remotely from a central location. |
Schedule and Automate Maintenance Tasks
Do you want to upgrade your network from a single location? BlueView’s powerful scheduling tool enables you to automate BlueSecure Controller and Access Point maintenance and provisioning tasks such as backing up and restoring configurations, pushing out policy or configuration changes, upgrading system software, and installing software patches.
As the demand for wireless connectivity in your organization grows, you can quickly roll out new WLAN deployments by using BlueView to provision, configure, and manage newly deployed BlueSecure Access Points and Controllers from a remote central location.
Powerful Reporting
BlueView’s powerful reporting functionality allows administrators to create detailed inventory, user, login and users over time reports for individual BSCs or groups of BSCs. Reports are available in HTML, PDF and Excel formats and can be scheduled for automatic email delivery to multiple recipients.
Enforce Centralized Policy Rollouts
BlueSecure Controllers (BSCs) use role-based access control to define which network resources and destinations a user may access, the bandwidth available for the user/role, and whether the user’s traffic is required to be encrypted (e.g., using IPSec, L2TP or PPTP). Using BlueView’s powerful configuration template editor, you can define roles that enforce network usage policies and then push these configurations out to either individual BSCs or groups of BSCs on your network to ensure uniform policy enforcement across your entire enterprise.
RF Intrusion Prevention
When combined with BlueSecure Centralized Intrusion Protection System or BlueSecure Access Points, BlueView can also provide RF Intrusion Prevention. BlueView’s RF IPS functionality includes the ability to detect and block rogue access points, ad-hoc users, and alert administrators to RF hacker attacks. BlueView’s integrated GUI provides a complete view of the health and security of the RF environment.
Location & Coverage Maps
BlueView allows adminstrators to create location and coverage maps by importing floor plans and locating Access Points and Sensors on the map. Via BlueView’s secure web interface, administrators can graphically visualize WLAN coverage on the actual floor plan and see power, channel, RSSI and AP user loads in real-time. When coupled with BlueSecure APs or Centralized Sensors, BlueView’s patent-pending location technology provides complete location information to indicate where users, rogue APs or WLAN attackers are, thereby enabling you to quickly find and resolve security issues.
BlueView Management System Specifications |
Physical Dimensions |
Width |
Depth |
Height |
17.5 inches
(445 mm) |
17.5 inches
(445 mm) |
3.6 inches
(88 mm) - 2U |
Network Interfaces |
Two 10/100/1000
Ethernet copper interfaces |
Storage |
High-speed disk drive database accommodating up to 120 GB |
Power |
Power Supply: 350 Watt
auto-sensing, 110/240
VAC @ 47/63 Hz |
Environmental |
Operating Temperature |
Humidity |
50° to 95° F |
40 to 80% non-condensing |
(10° to 35° C) |
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Approvals |
Communication Protocols |
FCC, VCCI, CE and UL |
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XML-RPC; SNMP v2c, v3 |
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Bluesocket ® Wireless LANPlanner™
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Bluesocket ® Wireless LANPlanner™, powered by Motorola LANPlanner
Quickly and easily create 2D/3D RF Coverage models from CAD drawing files, scanned blueprints, or rapid sketching. |
Bluesocket ® and Motorola ® Partner to Simplify Wireless Network Design and Implementation
Installing a robust and reliable wireless network begins with a good solid design. A poorly designed network will suffer from coverage holes, poor service areas, slow response, poor voice quality, dropped calls, and inadequate capacity. These challenges can be eliminated with an efficient design leveraging Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner™ software. Leveraging patented technology from Motorola, this powerful software application enables users to efficiently and effectively plan, track, display and document their wireless network infrastructure.
Leveraging Motorola’s RF Expertise
Motorola’s products are backed by a team of recognized RF industry leaders, with patented technology based on almost a decade of research. By using Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner, you can deploy wireless access points and wireless sensor networks in the most complex environments and even design multi-band systems including IEEE 802.11a/b/g wireless standards without being an expert in RF technology. Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner minimizes design and deployment costs and includes the following features:
- Site-specific 3D models that visualize the physical location and configuration of all installed network equipment
- Automated placement and configuration of access points
- Highly accurate coverage and capacity prediction
Motorola’s LANPlanner employs a predictive design approach which uniquely allows companies to consider the context of the environment and predict coverage and capacity before deploying any hardware resources. Motorola’s software enables network planners to import a map of the facility, note the contents and construction materials, designate user regions and applications to be used and place equipment.. The designer then interactively simulates how the wireless signals will propagate and fine-tunes the network design with “what if” analysis to determine optimum performance.
Design and Simulation
Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner enhances wireless network design by simulating the expected performance of your network and graphically displaying these results on a site-specific 2D/3D model. Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner allows you to efficiently and accurately design IEEE 802.11a/b/g and multi-band systems in the most complex environments. You can review vital information such as RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator), SIR (Signal to Interference Ratio), SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio), throughput and bit-error rate. Other features include:
- Automated equipment placement and configuration
- The ability to visualize the physical location and configuration of all installed network equipment
- Automatically create a bill-of-materials and maintenance records
Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner — Site-specific 3D Modeling
This extraordinary software tool allows you to easily convert drawing files or paper floor plans into multiple-story building databases quickly and efficiently. To ensure an accurate design, Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner allows you to specify the RF characteristics of walls and other obstructions from our extensive RF attenuation database. It also stores vital asset location and configuration information in a flexible 2D/3D model for simplified management and future network upgrades. Building information can easily and directly be imported into Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner from an existing AutoCAD drawing, a scanned image, digital photograph or PDF file, or a free-hand or electronic sketch of any site.
With Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner, you can instantly verify and record real-time network performance statistics directly from any wireless LAN client device. These real-time measurement statistics are displayed in a site-specific manner and used to optimize your wireless system predictions.
Asset Management and Network Troubleshooting
Electronically share, store and archive complete documentation about your wireless network performance, equipment location, cost and installation in a standard database. This database can be used for problem resolution by simulating changes to your networks prior to implementation. Technology upgrades can be evaluated for coverage and throughput without the expense of test deployments.
Platform Requirements |
Pentium III processor or later |
500 MHz minimum processor speed (800 MHz or higher recommended) |
At least 256 megabytes of RAM |
100 megabytes of available hard drive space for installation, and at least 200 megabytes free after installation |
Microsoft Windows 2000 or Windows XP (administrative rights are required for installation) |
Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher |
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