Cisco Systems Network Support Outsourcing

Cisco offers a diverse portfolio of wireless connectivity products and technologies engineered to enhance worker output, facilitate teamwork, and sharpen responsiveness between employees, partners, and clients. Cisco's solution enables fast strategic applications and creates a safe, mobile, interactive workplace so that companies can exceed customer expectations, stay ahead of their competition, and profit from a substantial return on investment in information technology. Cisco wireless products supported by Progent include access points, bridges, LAN controllers, and client adapters.

The Cisco Unified Wireless solution offers cost-effective wireless networks for business-critical mobility. Cisco's products support the identical level of protection, scalability, and manageability for wireless LANs that companies demand in their wired LANs. This encompasses integrated advanced protection that identifies, prevents, and responds to familiar and new security threats. Unified wireless solution includes integrated mobility services such as voice services, location services, guest access, and enhanced protection. Cisco wireless technology has the flexibility and scalability to meet the demands of networks of all sizes, from small companies to large-scale enterprises, within wireless LAN campus installations or branch offices. Cisco's Unified Wireless Network platform allows customers to exploit their RF infrastructure to streamline their operations and enhance productivity through a mobile and connected workforce. Cisco's wireless products reduce operational expenses and facilitate network implementation, operations, and support.

Cisco Access Points
Cisco wireless access points) provide protected, manageable, and dependable connectivity with exceptional range and performance. Centrally managed lightweight wireless access points work together with Cisco's wireless network controllers and Cisco's Wireless Control System. Cisco offers wireless access points with either single WiFi radio for as high as 54 Mbps of throughput or dual WiFi transceiver access points handling both 802.11g and 802.11a to deliver as much as 108 Mbps of network capacity. The Cisco Aironet product family features access points intended for offices and ordinary indoor facilities, for noisy RF situations such as manufacturing plants and warehouses, and for outside areas. These access points can be installed on desktops, on walls, on or above ceilings, and on towers. Cisco Aironet Wireless Mesh devices enable economical, scalable deployment of secure outside wireless LANs using Mesh networking.

All Cisco wireless LAN access points support the Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network (SWAN), a framework for wired/wireless interfacing that delivers high degrees of protection, manageability, and important services.

Cisco Aironet 1000/1130AG Series wireless access points are designed for offices and other locations which have little environmental instability. These products include built-in antennas that offer predictable omnidirectional range patterns. The Cisco Aironet 1130G Series product is offered for regulatory locations that do not permit 802.11a operation.

Cisco Aironet 1230AG or 1240AG family access points are intended for more problematic radio frequency situations such as factories and warehouses or above ceiling structures which commonly call for flexible external antennas and rugged metal enclosures. The Cisco 1240G family device is designed for controlled domains that do not allow 802.11a/5GHz transmission.

Aironet 1500 lightweight outdoor wireless mesh access points provide an affordable, scalable, protected outdoor WiFi solution for enterprise campus and public connectivity for mobile phones or computers in outside areas.

Cisco Aironet Wireless Bridges
Cisco Aironet wireless bridges offer a high-throughput and feature-rich technology for integrating multiple LANs in a metro area or public wireless environment. Cisco wireless bridges offer a flexible, easy-to-use solution that meets the security demands of WAN specialists. They support both PTP and PTMP configurations with outstanding range and support for data throughput up to 54 Mbps.

Cisco Aironet wireless LAN bridges offer throughput dramatically faster than E1/T1 connections for far less cost, erasing the need for expensive leased lines when linking separate buildings. Since bridges require no ongoing costs, savings on connection services rapidly pay for the startup hardware investment. Private lines and in some cases leased lines utilizing copper or fiber-optic cable often result in considerable up-front costs in cases where they are separated by obstacles like highways, railroads, or lakes and rivers. Cisco wireless LAN bridges can be deployed rapidly with a fast return on investment.

Cisco 1300 family outdoor access points/bridges can be implemented as independent wireless access points, wireless bridges, or wireless group bridges. These appliances have a tough enclosure and offer fast, cost-effective wireless connectivity between multiple fixed or mobile networks and clients.

Cisco Aironet 1400 Series wireless bridges offer high-speed, reliable outside connections for line-of-sight environments. These devices are housed in an all-weather cover that can withstand severe outdoor conditions and function in extended temperature ranges.

Cisco Wireless Client Adapters
Cisco Wireless Client cards connect a variety of products to a wireless environment either in ad hoc peer-to-peer mode or in infrastructure mode with LAN access points. Aironet Wireless LAN Adapters are compatible with Cisco Aironet infrastructure devices to offer seamless wireless LAN solutions.

Offered in CardBus, PC Card and PCI formats, Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN cards easily interface PC and portable computers to the WLAN in 802.11a, 802.11b, or 802.11g-compliant environments. With Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN cards, you can quickly connect new workers to a network, create ad hoc teams, or offer web access in meeting rooms.

With a hefty 100 mW of transmit power and the top reception available, the Aironet 350 Wireless LAN Client cards offer the longest coverage and highest dependability in the industry for wireless devices. Advanced engineering in the Cisco 350 Series Wireless LAN Client Adapters helps deal with the multipath propagation often present in office environments. Smart filtering addresses RF interference that can decrease network performance.

The Cisco Aironet 350 LAN cards provide high performance so workers can enjoy practically the same access they get from wired interfaces. Designed with direct sequence spread spectrum technology and running in the 2.4-GHz spectrum, the Aironet 350 Series LAN Client cards comply with the IEEE 802.11b standard, ensuring interoperability with all compliant wireless LAN products.

Cisco Wireless Controllers
Cisco WLAN Controllers are responsible for system wide wireless LAN functions, such as integrated intrusion prevention system (IPS), real-time RF management, zero touch deployment, and N+1 redundancy. Cisco WLAN controllers work with lightweight access points and a management mechanism to deliver superior performance and advanced administration capabilities.

Wireless LAN Controllers offer the control, scalability, protection, and resilience that system managers need to create secure, large-scale wireless environments, from branch locations, to small businesses, to main campuses. Cisco Wireless Controllers can be configured together to offer support for up to 2400 wireless access points for each roaming domain.

Cisco's WLCM or WLCM-E Module for IS Routers provides small-to medium businesses and large corporations an economical solution to implement and control secure wireless networks at satellite locations. These wireless controllers supervise as many as 12 Cisco lightweight wireless access points and are supported on 2800/3800 Series IS Routers and Cisco 3700 Series IS Routers.

Cisco's 2106 Series Wireless LAN Controller works. operates together with Cisco Aironet lightweight wireless access points and Cisco's Wireless Control System (WCS) to support network-wide WLAN services. Cisco's 2106 Series WLC handles as many as six Cisco lightweight WAPs, making it a cost-effective alternative for multi-controller environments common for enterprise satellite office installations. Cisco's 2106 WLC can also be used for single controller solutions for small and medium-sized business environments. The Cisco 2106 Series Wireless LAN Controller includes eight Ethernet ports, with two that can supply power directly to Aironet lightweight access points.

The Cisco 4400 WLC provides network wide WLAN services for medium to large-sized environments. The Cisco 4400 Series WLC works in conjunction with Aironet lightweight wireless access points, the Cisco's WCS platform, and Cisco's Wireless Location Appliance to manage business-critical wireless data, voice, and video applications. Cisco's 4400 Series WLC provides instant coordination between Aironet lightweight WAPs and other controllers to deliver integrated security policies, intrusion prevention system functions, advanced RF control, quality of service, and mobility.

How Progent's Consultants Can Assist Your Company with Cisco Wireless Technology
Progent can provide a certified CCIE or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to assist you to develop a comprehensive wireless network design and implementation strategy that integrates a broad array of wireless devices and technologies and offers the identical protection, scalability, and ease of management you expect from a wired network. Progent can assist you to achieve transparent integration between Cisco wireless products and wireless devices and software from third-party suppliers to give your business the functionality you require plus the most secure, reliable, and cost-effective WLAN system possible. Progent's CISM and CISSP security specialists can advise you about how to design protection into your WLAN and into your company's operations.

For a further look at Progent's wireless consulting capabilities, see Progent's Wireless Network Support.

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