Aerohive (News - Alert) Networks, a provider of solutions that unleash the potential of enterprise Wi-Fi to help its customers in moving applications to the air and maximizing workforce productivity, has announced that the company has been successful in securing $23.5 million in Series C equity funding.
The deal includes participation from new and existing Aerohive investors, making the total funds raised by the company in venture capital funding $47.5 million to date.
The company plans to use the new funds in expanding its sales and marketing capabilities throughout the world and in continuing development of its award-winning controller-less WLAN technology. The cooperative control wireless LAN architecture developed by Aerohive requires no network controllers or overlay networks, and leverages software in the HiveAPs to self-organize into groups called hives.
As a result, it offers a secure multi-service WLAN infrastructure that is able to support a vast array of wireless devices, application types, and service levels, with faster client performance, wire-like resilience, and lower capital and operational costs.
Aerohive developed the solution to provide enterprise wireless LAN infrastructures that are easier to deploy and expand, lower cost, more reliable, more scalable, higher performing and more suitable for voice-over-wireless, and to fulfill the need emerging by the continued migration away from autonomous access points, the evolution of wireless networks to support mission-critical/real-time applications and the arrival of 802.11n.
The architecture distributes the control and data plane, and offers redundancy and optimization right within the system. It can be run from one location by centralizing management functions and eliminates controllers by increasing the functionality of the access points themselves, bringing control closer to the edge of the network.
This cooperative control approach enables functions like fast layer 2/layer 3 roaming, coordinated RF management, security, and built in mesh networking, while the management is provided by a central HiveManager. Unlike a controller, the HiveManager is not essential to traffic processing, and one HiveManager can control an entire deployment, be it building-wide, across a campus, or around the world.
According to David Flynn, Chief Executive Officer at Aerohive, the company was looking to revolutionize the wireless LAN market through innovation, and eliminated single points of failure and substantially reduced costs with a disruptive controller-less architecture to meet the performance of 802.11n. Flynn continued that apart from it, Aerohive delivered new levels of determinism with a unique service level assurance or ‘SLA’ capability and simplified the management, deployment and cost of enterprise Wi-Fi with a cloud-based SaaS (News - Alert) solution.
February 2010, Aerohive Networks announced the release of the HiveAP 110, a cost-effective single radio dual-band 802.11n access point, which provides a more cost effective 802.11n solution for environments that do not require dual radio support, such as small retail and hospitality environments, telecommuters and micro branch locations.
Raja Singh Chaudhary is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Raja's articles, please visit his columnist page.Edited by
Alice Straight
