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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 wireless access points are Linux-powered units intended as entry-level Wi-Fi APs for light workloads. Many versions in the Cisco Small Business line of wireless access points work with Cisco's Single Point Setup system, which makes it possible to set up, manage and repair a group of wireless access points from a single device via a simple browser-based interface. All of the versions include Power over Ethernet and provide Quality of Service (QoS), rogue access point detection, and bridge mode for wirelessly connecting to another network.

Progent's Cisco CCIE Wi-Fi network consultants can provide remote or onsite configuration and troubleshooting services to assist you to design, implement, upgrade, optimize, administer and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business wireless AP deployments of any scale or architecture. Progent's Cisco wireless controller experts can also assist you to combine your Wi-Fi environment with your wired network and cloud-hosted resources to build an enterprise connectivity foundation that is simple to manage and expand. Progent also can provide affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to help you to determine the most efficient selection, location and configuration of Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi access points to work with your specific workplace layout, building structure, and anticipated workloads.

The Cisco Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N AP is a wall-mountable, single-radio 2.4GHz unit able to support 16 active 802.11n clients, includes a 10/100 Ethernet port, permits up to four AP devices and 40 active wireless clients in a cluster, and can handle throughput of 300 Mbps. The Cisco Small Business WAP125 is an entry-level desktop 802.11ac wireless access point that features a Gigabit Ethernet LAN port with Power over Ethernet, provides throughput as high as 867 Mbps, supports 10 active users, and can be used with Cisco's FindIT Network Management software for simple deployment and control. Cisco's WAP131 is a desktop dual-radio 802.11a/b/g/n access point able to handle 16 active clients on each radio for up to 32 clients, features a 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interface, and delivers sustained data rates of up to 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP131 does not support AP clustering. The Cisco Small Business WAP150 is an entry-level Wave 1 dual-radio 802.11ac/n wireless access point that features a 1xGE Poe port and can handle 16 clients per radio with 867 Mbps throughput for AC devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n clients. The Cisco WAP1501 allows four APs per cluster.

The Cisco Small Business WAP321 Access Point is a wallmount selectable-band (either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) 802.11n unit with support for up to 80 active wireless clients in an 8-AP cluster. The WAP321 has a Gigabit Ethernet interface and can support a sustained data rate of 300 Mbps for the selected radio. Cisco's Small Business WAP351 is a dual-radio 2.4/5 GHz 802.11n AP that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and can handle 32 active wireless clients per radio for a total of up to 64 clients, and deliver a data rate of 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP351 access point does not support clustering. The Cisco Small Business WAP361 is a dual-band Wireless-AC/N AP that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, can support 32 clients per radio, and offers 867 Mbps throughput for wireless AC clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. Cisco's Small Business WAP361 supports 8 WAP361 access points for each cluster. Cisco's wall-mountable WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-band device that supports 802.11a/b/g/n and the latest 802.11ac IEEE Wi-Fi standard. The WAP371 includes a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, can support as many as 32 wireless clients per radio, and 8 APs for each cluster.

The Cisco Small Business WAP561 802.11n Dual Radio access point includes a Gigabit Ethernet LAN interface and two radios that offer 450 Mbps performance for each radio, can handle 64 clients for each radio, and allow 16 wireless access points for each cluster. The Cisco WAP551 is similar to Cisco's WAP 561 but has a single selectable band. The Cisco Small Business WAP571 and WAP571E (the ruggedized outdoor model) are dual-band Wireless-AC/N wireless access points incorporating two fixed Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with link aggregation, and up to 1.9 Gigabit/sec throughput with 1300 Mbps on 11ac and 600 Mbps over 11n. Both units can handle 32 clients on each radio and 16 APs on each cluster.

Cisco's WAP581 Wireless-AC Wave 2 Access Point complies with the Wi-Fi 5 specification and features 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO technology to provide 2.8 Gbps throughput on the 5.0-Ghz radio and 600 Mbps on the 2.4-GHz radio for a total top throughput of 2.4 Gbps. The Small Business WAP581 includes a fixed 2.5G Ethernet port and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port with 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE). The WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 AP supports up to 200 connective users, a maximum of 50 active users for each radio, 16 access points per cluster, and 960 active users per cluster.

How Progent Can Help You with Cisco Small Business Wireless Access Points
Progent offers affordable remote or on-premises help from a certified CCIE network infrastructure expert to help your organization to design, deploy, manage, tune, upgrade or troubleshoot a wireless environment that incorporates Cisco Small Business wireless access points. Progent can assist you maintain legacy Cisco Small Business APs or move smoothly to Cisco's current lineup of Wave 2 wireless APs based on 802.11ac technology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can help you to see whether your Wi-Fi deployment should include Cisco Wi-Fi controller appliances or can be configured and maintained with software tools.

Progent's online and on-premises wireless site surveys can assist your organization to determine the most efficient selection and location of Cisco Small Business wireless APs to support your user density, provide the RF coverage you require, and keep up with your critical workloads. Progent's certified cybersecurity consultants can assist you to plan, deploy and validate a compliant security strategy that covers network policies, remote network monitoring, and centralized management. Progent's disaster recovery experts and business continuity experts can assist you to build availability and recoverability into your Cisco product deployments to optimize the productivity of your seamless wired/wireless infrastructure.

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