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Aerohive HiveAP 20 ag
Startup Aerohive just came out of stealth mode this month, but its controller-less WLAN technology is already turning heads. The vendor’s HiveAP 20 ag is a finalist in the mobility and wireless category of this year’s Best of Interop awards.
In a nod to earlier WLAN architectures based on autonomous “fat” access points, Aerohive built intelligence into its HiveAP access points and eliminated the need for each of them to connect back to a centralized switch for control.
But unlike traditional, stand-alone access points, Aerohive's access points work as a “hive,” or a group of access points that discover each other, work together via mesh networking, automate RF management and support full-state roaming and best-path routing. If one goes down, the others can pick up the slack so users don't lose connectivity, according to the company.
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