Trapeze Networks, a start-up based in Pleasanton, California named James W. Vogt as its new president and CEO. Prior to joining Trapeze, Vogt was president and CEO at Ingrian Networks, where he led the privately held secure appliance firm through two rounds of funding. He also was president of the Nortel Networks small business solutions group, and before that, served as vice president of product management for Bay Networks’ desktop products group.
Trapeze Networks offers a wireless LAN Mobility System. http://www.trapezenetworks.com
- Trapeze Networks offers a WLAN Mobility System that allows enterprise users to login once, roam and retain their access privileges and policies wherever they go on the corporate network. Seamless roaming is a key enabler for time-sensitive applications like Voice over Wireless IP (VoWIP). The Trapeze system preserves existing network engineering — VLAN and subnet assignments, authentications and ACLs — while enabling the deployment of new services like prioritization, access controls, roaming policies, location tracking and usage metrics on a per-user basis from wired to wireless. The Trapeze WLAN Mobility System includes the Mobility Exchange, Mobility Points, Mobility System Software and a tool suite. The Mobility Exchange System offloads Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) processing, session consolidation, and hardware-accelerated encryption and key generation from AAA servers. This reduces 802.1X authenticators by 20-to-1, according to the company. Trapeze also supports standard WLAN cryptography, including Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and dynamic Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) with rotating broadcast/multicast keys.
