User's Guide

Table Of Contents
The AirDefense appliance provides a scalable, secure, and manageable solution for enterprises to
deploy in a single oce or corporate campus. As an appliance, AirDefense does not require an
enterprise to buy, install, configure, lock-down, and support a server, operating system, and database. A
true appliance comes ready with the application and all supporting software preloaded.
System Components
AirDefense provides advanced Wireless LAN monitoring with a distributed architecture of remote
sensors and APs that communicate with a centralized server (appliance.) A basic AirDefense system
consists of an AirDefense appliance and one or more sensors.
The AirDefense remote sensors collect frames being transmitted by 802.11a-, ac, b-, g-, and n-compliant
devices, and sends that data to a central AirDefense appliance for analysis and correlation.
System Overview
System Components
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