HotView Pro software provides real-time monitoring, and comprehensive local and remote management of one or more Firetide HotPort High Performance Mesh Networks or HotPort Public Safety High Performance Mesh Networks. HotView Pro employs an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI) for monitoring and managing all mesh-wide and individual node configuration settings for security, traffic prioritization, radio behavior, internetworking, and more.
The MultiMesh capability enables an authorized administrator to manage multiple mesh networks from a single screen. The mesh networks can be operated independently, or integrated with MeshBridge into a single mesh environment with up to 1000 nodes. The real-time monitor depicts a graphical view of active connections in the mesh topology (normally superimposed on a customer-supplied map or drawing), along with a display of mesh/node configuration settings, performance statistics and event/fault logs.
HotView Pro Mesh Management Software Feature Set
The many features of the HotPort mesh network and its companion HotView Pro Mesh Management Software provide a wealth of customer benefits that, together, make the solution easy to deploy and operate. Below are highlights of the key features, details of which are available separately in the product datasheets and documentation.
| 1 | Client/Server Architecture |
The server's database provides access to all mesh and node configurations, operating statistics, fault log records, administrator access privileges, and user preferences. One or more clients across a LAN, MAN or WAN provide the intuitive GUI for the many management tools. |
| 2 | MultiMesh Management |
HotView Pro is capable of anaging single HotPort mesh network or several under control of the same enterprise, service provider, agency or integrator. The MultiMesh capability allows all mesh networks to be displayed in one comprehensive view, when desired; administrators can then zoom in on each mesh network separately. |
| 3 | Multiple Administrators |
HotView Pro allows multiple administrators to be assigned different password-protected monitoring and/or management privileges. To support good change management practices, only one user at a time is granted full Read/Write capability for any mesh network. |
| 4 | Real-time Monitoring |
HotView Pro affords at-a-glance monitoring of network status (throughput performance, radio signal strength and noise, and node uptime), performance statistics (radio behavior, neighboring links and Ethernet ports), and current/logged faults. Statistics and log files can be exported for offline analysis. The fault log displays the severity, date and time, node location, fault type, and description of every fault or error encountered on the mesh. |
| 5 | Customizable Views |
Views can be customized with an imported background bitmap image, such as a floorplan, campus or street map, or aerial photograph. The individual nodes are then "dragged and dropped" to their real-world physical location to depict the actual layout of the mesh topology. This mesh-wide view is quite powerful when monitoring, optimizing, troubleshooting and otherwise managing a HotPort or HotPort/PS mesh network. |
| 6 | Mesh/Node Configuration Management |
HotView Pro makes it easy to reconfigure the various default settings for a HotPort or HotPort/PS mesh with a single action, as well as change all settings for individual nodes (e.g. Ethernet port utilization, assigned name and location description, and transmit power setting). |
| 7 | MeshBridge |
The MeshBridge feature is used to connect multiple mesh networks into a single, integrated mesh environment with up to 1000 nodes. The link can be directly wired, or made via any separate switched or routed LAN, MAN or WAN infrastructure. Mesh bridging helps extend reach and enhance performance, and permits optimal utilization of the RF spectrum and available channels (in both the commercial 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz unlicensed bands, and in the U.S.-licensed 4.9 GHz band for public safety applications). |
| 8 | Mesh Internetworking Management |
HotView Pro manages the internetworking of HotPort and HotPort/PS mesh networks with any other LAN, MAN or WAN domain, including the Internet. A Network Gateway Interconnect (NGI) node provides the basic connection; multiple NGI nodes add multi-path performance and redundancy. A Gateway Group dedicates a separate Gateway Server node to consolidating multiple NGIs into a single, high-bandwidth link. |
| 9 | Performance Management |
HotView Pro allows administrators to control all HotPort and HotPort/PS mesh provisions for maximizing throughput and minimizing latency in concurrent voice, video and data applications. These provisions include traffic prioritization by class of service (CoS); Multi-Hop Optimization to reduce contention; Received Signal Strength settings to prioritize paths by link quality; adjustable transmit power levels to minimize interference; Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) to avoid conflicts with 5 GHz radar signals; Virtual LANs to segment and direct traffic along specific routes (with support for IEEE 802.1q VLAN tagging); and EthernetDirect to substitute a full-duplex 100 Mbps wired link between any two nodes, allowing them to receive and transmit traffic simultaneously. |
| 10 | Security Management |
HotView Pro offers a choice of packet encryption and access control provisions to ensure the security and integrity of a HotPort or HotPort/PS mesh. End-to-end traffic encryption is provided using the Advanced Encryption Standard at 128 or 256 bits. Access control is provided by MAC address filtering on either an explicit Allow or Deny basis. VLANs, which segment traffic within the mesh, add yet another layer of security. |
| 11 | Inventory Management |
HotView Pro provides an automatic, up-to-date inventory of all HotPort and HotPort/PS nodes. Details about each node include its model number, serial number, unique node name, physical location description, MAC address and software version. |
| 12 | Mesh Software Updates |
HotView allows all nodes in any mesh network to be updated concurrently in one easy operation, which ensures that all nodes share the most current software, while preserving the existing mesh/node configurations. |
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