With the new products, Bluesocket said it is able to expand its reach and offer a complete wireless local area network (WLAN) solution to enterprises.

"Bluesocket has identified a growing market need and enhanced its existing product base to meet the challenges facing today's enterprises," said Craig Mathias, a Principal with the mobile and wireless advisory firm Farpoint Group (Ashland, MA). "They've always been a leader in wireless-LAN security, and BlueSecure is their most comprehensive offering yet. WLAN security remains a key requirement in any enterprise solution, and increasingly, even in networks without users."

Bluesocket said the product set meets trust boundary requirements, including secure guest access, universal authentication, granular user role and policy enforcement, co-existence with heterogeneous environments, intrusion detection and auto-quarantine and IDS/IPS for the RF infrastructure. The features are delivered across four networking layers: user, RF, access and management, the company added.

"Our new portfolio was developed as a result of customer and market feedback on the need to meet increasingly demanding trust boundary requirements," said Ralph Calistri, CEO of Bluesocket. "Bluesocket will continue to be a leader in the WLAN market because our products are based on open standards, as they always have been. We are delivering on our promise to bring maximum choice to our customers." Bluesocket also announced that it recently reached the 1,000-customer mark with WLAN deployments worldwide in global organizations, including education, government, healthcare, hospitality, enterprises and public access.

Bluesocket is also extending its BlueSecure product family name with Secure Mobility Controllers that offer authentication and policy enforcement; the BlueSecure Intrusion Protection System that consists of a RF sensor, console and server; and the BlueView Management System to offer its customers and target markets a complete WLAN solution.