Motorola Inc. today introduced the latest version of its One Point Wireless Suite for designing and deploying indoor and outdoor wireless networks. A new management tool within the suite will offer a single view across indoor WLANs and outdoor wireless broadband networks, the company announced.
Unifying design and control of indoor and outdoor networks helps reduce planning and labor costs, but it is the introduction of the Wireless Manager 2.0, due to be available early next year, that will truly make an administrator’s life easier, according to Motorola. The network management software pulls information from all tiers of the network and presents it in real time through a Google Maps display.
The Google Maps engine embedded within Wireless Manager 2.0 provides a view of wireless network nodes and links spanning multiple buildings or campuses. Each network element is overlaid on satellite images, creating different topography maps of the network.
“The network operator can see the whole network from a single pane of glass,” said a Motorola spokesman. In addition, the software displays network node performance information, enabling the operator to drill down into device configuration and troubleshoot issues.