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Cisco Small Business 100, 300 and 500 Family of Wireless Access Points
Cisco's Small Business 100, 300 and 500 series of access points are Linux-based units intended as value-priced wireless APs for light workloads. Most versions in Cisco's Small Business family of access points support Cisco's Single Point Setup system, which makes it possible to set up, control and repair a group of access points from one AP through a simple web browser tool. All models support Power over Ethernet (POE) and feature Quality of Service (QoS), rogue AP detection, and bridging for connecting to a second network.

Progent's Cisco CCIE Wi-Fi network experts can provide online or onsite configuration and troubleshooting services to help you to design, configure, update, tune, manage and debug Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi access point deployments of any size or topology. Progent's Cisco wireless controller experts can also assist you to integrate your Wi-Fi environment with your wired network and cloud-based resources to build an enterprise connectivity solution that is simple to manage and expand. Progent also can provide affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to decide the most efficient selection, placement and setup of Cisco Small Business wireless APs to work with your unique workplace layout, construction, and expected workloads.

The Cisco Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N Access Point is a wall-mountable, single-band 2.4GHz device able to support 16 802.11b/g/n wireless clients, has a Fast Ethernet interface, allows up to four AP devices and 40 active wireless clients per cluster, and supports data rates of up to 300 Mbps. The Cisco Small Business WAP125 is a value-priced desktop 802.11ac wireless access point that includes a one Gbit port with Power over Ethernet (PoE), provides performance up to 867 Mbps, handles 10 active users, and can be used with Cisco's FindIT Network Management platform for easy deployment and management. The Cisco WAP131 is a desktop dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11a/b/g/n AP that can support 16 wireless clients per radio for a total of up to 32 wireless clients, includes a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface, and can support throughput of 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP131 Wireless-N does not allow AP clustering. The Cisco WAP150 is an entry-level Wave 1 dual-radio 802.11ac/n access point that includes a one Gbit Power over Ethernet port and can handle 16 clients from each radio with 867 Mbps performance for AC clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. Cisco's WAP1501 supports 4 access points for each cluster.

Cisco's Small Business WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point is a wallmount single-band (either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) 802.11n device that can handle up to 80 wireless clients sharing an 8-AP cluster. The WAP321 includes a GE port and can deliver sustained throughput of 300 Mbps for the activated radio. Cisco's Small Business WAP351 is a dual-radio 2.4/5 GHz 802.11a/b/g/n access point that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet interface and can handle 32 active clients on each radio for a total of up to 64 active clients, and support throughput of 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP351 AP does not support clustering. The Cisco WAP361 is a dual-band 802.11ac AP that features a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet LAN switch, allows 32 active WLAN clients per radio, and delivers 867 Mbps performance for 802.11ac devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. Cisco's WAP361 allows 8 access points per cluster. Cisco's wallmount WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-radio device that works with 802.11a/b/g/n as well as the new 802.11ac IEEE Wi-Fi standard. The WAP371 includes a GE interface, can support as many as 32 active clients per radio, and eight access points for each cluster.

The Cisco WAP561 802.11n Selectable Band AP includes one Gigabit Ethernet port and dual radios (2.4 and 5.0 GHz) that offer 450 Mbps throughput per radio, can handle 64 devices per radio, and allow up to 16 wireless access points for each cluster. The Cisco WAP551 is similar to the WAP 561 but features a single radio selectable band. Cisco's WAP571 and WAP571E (the ruggedized outside model) are dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac wireless access points that feature two fixed Gigabit Ethernet ports with link aggregation (LAG), and up to 1.9 Gbps performance with 1300 Mbps over 802.11ac and 600 Mbps on 802.11n. Both APs support 32 clients on each radio and 16 wireless access points on each cluster.

Cisco's Small Business WAP581 Wireless-AC Wave 2 Access Point supports the Wi-Fi 5 specification and offers 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO to provide 2.8 Gbps throughput at 5 GHz and 600 Mbps on the 2.4-GHz radio for an aggregate max throughput of 2.4 Gbps. The WAP581 includes a fixed 2.5G Ethernet port and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface with 802.3at PoE. The WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 access point can handle up to 200 connective users, a maximum of 50 active client users for each radio, 16 APs per cluster, and 960 active client users for each cluster.

How Progent Can Assist You with Cisco Small Business Wireless Access Points
Progent offers affordable remote or on-premises support from a Cisco-certified CCIE network consultant to assist your organization to design, deploy, manage, tune, update or repair a Wi-Fi environment that incorporates Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi access points. Progent can assist you maintain legacy Cisco Small Business devices or move efficiently to Cisco's current generation of Wave 2 Wi-Fi access points based on 802.11ac technology. Progent's certified Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can assist you to see whether your wireless deployment should include Cisco Wi-Fi controller appliances or can be managed with software-based utilities.

Progent's remote and on-premises Wi-Fi site surveys can help your organization to determine the most efficient selection and placement of Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi APs to handle your client volume, provide the RF coverage you need, and deal with your critical workloads. Progent's certified network security experts can assist you to plan, implement and validate a compliant security strategy that covers policy enforcement, remote network and endpoint monitoring, and centralized management. Progent's disaster preparedness experts and business continuity experts can help your organization to build fault-tolerance and recoverability into your Cisco product implementations to optimize the uptime of your converged wired/wireless network infrastructure.

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