BRO Executive: How to treat the optical software market
[Hui Cong Lighting Network] BRO (Breault ResearchOrganizationInc.) is a well-known optical software development company in the United States, and its main product ASAP optical design software is well-known in the industry. Because ASAP optical software enjoys the most relaxed design freedom, it can obtain high, precise and accurate simulation results, so it was not allowed to enter China for sale until 2005, which was only used by US military or European and American companies.
Since many of its foreign customers such as Philips, Osram, Samsung, etc. have set up branches in China and are also optimistic about the Chinese market, in 2005, Shanghai Kangshi Communication Technology Co., Ltd. officially represented ASAP optical software, bringing the world's advanced products to Chinese optical people. On April 30th, the editor interviewed Dr. CEOKevin Garcia and Chief Operating Officer of the company, Wayne Hall. They talked about how ASAP software was born, how to ensure quality during the development process, which direction the software will be upgraded in the future, and how to look at the Chinese market.
Reporter: What are the biggest advantages of your company's products?
KevinGarcia: ASAP is a world-renowned manufacturer of optical design software that provides design, analysis and application simulation tools in optical design. Excellent simulation of various optical components and optomechanical systems. The software can be used in multiple markets and is feature-rich to meet the diverse needs of customers and special design needs. For example, it is capable of simulating both coherent and incoherent sources, including their vector and polarization characteristics, as well as complex optical and mechanical prototypes for use in image and opto-mechanical systems. It is important that these systems are created in the local environment of the software, or directly from the CAD program, because each optical system contains lighting and imaging systems, and a complete analog system must be compatible with other software systems.
ASAP software has many excellent features, such as automatic optimization, and fast and accurate ray tracing algorithms allow engineers to efficiently design and analyze results. In the ASAP2009 release, which will be introduced to the market in the near future, we are able to track and analyze nearly 1 billion rays in 15 minutes using distributed processing. This allows users to process inspection lighting systems and perform astigmatism analysis at unprecedented speeds. ASAP has multiple user interfaces, engineers can choose their favorite interface according to their own preferences, we will not force users to use the interface they do not like. Users can choose a table interface or a powerful macro language optical program.
BRO is a well-known solution provider. ASAP is a powerful product that contains a wealth of multimedia materials and provides technical support worldwide. BRO follows the customer-centric principle, we listen to the customer's requirements and then integrate it into the product. For example, BRO has 10 dedicated software developers and 5 technical support engineers. We have dedicated resources in China to support a growing customer base. We will not go away after selling the software, but will cooperate with the customers and share the success.
Reporter: What is your R&D strength? With what is the development of such excellent software?
KevinGarcia: ASAP has a long history and rich experience in the industrial field. Twenty years ago, we developed the first disordered beam tracing software and added new features. Our in-house R&D staff are top experts, and our customers' opinions are an important reference for us to upgrade our software. Our software development process is standardized and powerful, using the CMMIlevel4 standard that is common to most software companies today. Industry optics experts and talented software designers have created the optical design software used by thousands of engineers around the world. A rigorous development process and a strong quality assurance system enable customers to believe that the results they simulate from the software are trustworthy.
When we developed this software, we took full advantage of the information given by BRO and customers. Deliver the tools your customers need and leverage our innovative capabilities. Try to predict what features customers need in the future.
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What is a wireless AC controller? What does it do?
Wireless AC controller is a kind of network device, such as the AC100/150 of Fengrunda, which can be used to centrally control and manage wireless aps. It is the core of a wireless network and is responsible for managing all wireless aps in the wireless network. AP management includes: delivering configuration, modifying related configuration parameters, RF intelligent management, and access security control.
Why use a wireless controller, and what exactly does it do?
In fact, the role of the wireless controller is to play a gateway function between the WLAN and the Internet (on the router), and the data from different access points are aggregated and accessed to the Internet. The role of an access point (AP) is to complete wireless access, and it can control user access through network flags.
The role of wireless controllers
1, Flexible networking mode and excellent scalability
The AP does not need to be directly connected to the AC, so that the AP can be deployed in any place that needs to be covered through the network, such as you deploy an AP in each employee's home, and then connect to the wireless controller inside the enterprise through the VPN, you can expand the wireless network of the enterprise to the family of each enterprise member.
2, intelligent RF management functions, automatic deployment and fault recovery
Through the dedicated RF management module, we can initially estimate the AP deployment according to the user's architectural design drawing, and can calculate the average bandwidth of the wireless terminal, the coverage between AP and AP in the actual debugging process.
3. Centralized network management
All the configuration of the wireless network can be completed by configuring the wireless controller. For example, enable, manage, and maintain all AP devices and mobile terminals, including all functions such as radio wave spectrum, wireless security, access authentication, mobile roaming, and access users.
4, powerful roaming function support
The wireless controller uses AP as the boundary combined with fast RF management system, which greatly reduces the connection time between wireless client and AP, and thus realizes the function of fast roaming.
5. Load balancing
AP and wireless controller systems can distribute wireless users or terminals to nearby aps within the coverage area of an AP, ensuring the number of each wireless terminal or the sum of AP bandwidth transmission or the upper limit of each wireless terminal bandwidth.
6, wireless terminal positioning, rapid fault location and intrusion detection
Wireless controllers can track and locate the location of wireless terminals, such as wirelessly connected computers, PDAs and Wi-Fi mobile phones.
7, powerful access and security policy control
At present, the wireless system supports authentication of 802.1, WEB authentication, MAC, SSID, VPN, etc., and supports various encryption modes such as WEP, WPA, WPA-PSK, WPA2, etc., and all configurations can be configured globally through the wireless controller.
8, Qos support
AP and wireless switching systems can limit the maximum bandwidth of a user's wireless connection within each user's privileges. For different IP services, the system can also define different QoS queues through the wireless switch module. For example, for wireless voice applications, SIP and RTP protocols can be set in the high queue, while common applications such as http and ftp can be set in the low queue.
The wireless controller AC is more advanced than the AP, plays the role of manager in the wireless network, and the wireless controller AC also acts as a client to complete a series of functions in the wired network (such as authentication, authentication, etc.). However, wireless controller AC is not a WLAN device specified in the 802.11 protocol family, but as a supplement to the protocol in specific applications, and its price far exceeds that of ordinary access point (AP) devices.
In small-scale wireless networks that use only a few aps, it is not economical to use expensive wireless controller AC equipment. However, if the number of wireless aps is large, more than 20 can be used AC controller.
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