Bandspeed has introduced AirMaestro RF Monitoring Service and RF Monitoring Console software, which run on a server or appliance to manage the communication to multiple remote systems with embedded AirMaestro RF Signal Analysers and provide visibility into remote systems’ RF environments.
The company said that the new software provides advanced RF spectral analysis and interference management that WLAN equipment vendors can integrate into their WLAN management offerings.
According to Bandspeed, the AirMaestro RF Monitoring Service provides centralised monitoring of the RF environment for real-time management and investigation into historical interference events. Systems with embedded AirMaestro RF Signal Analysers continuously scan all of the IEEE 802.11 channels in the 2.4GHs and 5GHs frequency bands for interference, classify the interference, and record the interference events in local event logs at the edge of the network.
The network can make automatic adjustments to self-heal the interference issues affecting WLAN performance and record configuration changes in the event log. The RF Monitoring Service collects interference and event data from the remote systems and manages the information in a centralised database, the company said.
The service and its database are accessible through APIs and the AirMaestro RF Monitoring Console applications, supporting integration with existing WLAN management systems, the company said.
Bandspeed said that RF Monitoring Service manages the centralised interference and event database, and generates alerts when configurable event thresholds are exceeded. Alerts can be configured to send notifications when connections to sensors go down, specific interferers are detected, or when interference from non-802.11 devices exceeds certain thresholds.
The RF Monitoring Console supports advanced spectrum displays for remote visibility into the RF environment for diagnostics and troubleshooting. This includes the ability to view both real-time RF spectral data and historical interference event information.
Bill Eversole, president and CEO of Bandspeed, said: “With WLANs now supporting mission-critical applications, continuous monitoring of the RF environment including interference detection, classification and logging is imperative to ensure network performance and security.
“Our AirMaestro RF Monitoring Service and RF Monitoring Console software provides OEMs a turn-key RF interference monitoring solution they can integrate into their WLAN platform to provide the comprehensive knowledge, control and security required by today’s enterprise-class wireless networks.”
