High-speed 802.11n Clean Wireless solution from SonicWALL

SonicWALL announced a new Clean Wireless solution combining 802.11n wireless controller functionality in NSA and TZ firewalls with SonicPoint-N Dual-Band smart access points. It works by scanning all wireless traffic using the SonicWALL patented Reassembly-Free Deep Packet Inspection technology, delivering comprehensive protection from viruses, spyware and other malicious network threats on the wireless network by scrutinizing wireless traffic with the same intensity as wired traffic.

The Clean Wireless solution enables IT administrators to build high-performance, distributed wireless networks with unified policy management across both the wireless and wired networks.

With the release of SonicOS 5.2, SonicWALL has expanded the integrated secure wireless controller software with Clean Wireless technology for NSA E-class, NSA and TZ 210 Unified Threat Management firewalls to include the high speed 802.11n wireless standard. Wireless functionality is easily distributed throughout a network using up to 128 SonicPoint-N Dual-Band smart access points, which are self-discovered and automatically provisioned by the firewall’s integrated wireless controller to deliver centralized security policy management. This two-pronged strategy greatly simplifies administration and maintenance and reduces the cost of deploying and maintaining a mixed wired and wireless network environment.

The secure wireless controller is available in SonicOS 5.2 firmware and in addition to SonicPoint management, provides wireless encryption, wireless intrusion detection, virtual access point support, wireless roaming and integrated wireless guest services.

Based on the IEEE 802.11n draft 2.0 standard, the SonicPoint-N Dual-Band access point enables up to 300 Mbps wireless data rates using 3×3 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology, packet aggregation and channel bonding to result in a better wireless user experience for anyone using either legacy 802.11a/b/g clients or new 802.11n clients.