The ability to roam around an office while continuously connected to a wireless LAN will be extended across whole buildings and campuses with a set of products Nortel Networks Corp. announced Monday.

The company will ship in June a network switch that can handle as many as 500 secure wireless LAN connections across multiple access points. That platform will be at the heart of a broad set of wireless LAN offerings called the Nortel Networks WLAN 2200 line, designed for carrier hotspot deployments as well as enterprises.

As more enterprises make wide use of wireless LANs, integrating them with the overall network will be increasingly important, according to some industry analysts. Many vendors are getting ready to roll out systems that can centralize security and management of wireless LANs, they said.

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