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Small Business 100, 300 and 500 Family of Access Points
Cisco's Small Business 100, 300 and 500 series of APs are Linux-based devices engineered as value-priced Wi-Fi solutions for small offices. Most models in the Cisco Small Business line of access points work with Cisco's Single Point Setup technology, which makes it possible to configure, control and repair a group of wireless access points from one AP via an intuitive browser-based interface. All of the versions include POE and provide Quality of Service (QoS), rogue access point awareness, and bridge mode for connecting to a second network.

Progent's Cisco CCIE wireless network consultants offer remote or onsite configuration and debugging support to help your organization to design, implement, upgrade, optimize, administer and debug Cisco Small Business wireless AP deployments of any scale or architecture. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can also assist you to integrate your Wi-Fi ecosystem with your wired network and cloud-based resources to create an enterprise connectivity foundation that is simple to manage and scale. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to help you to decide the most appropriate selection, location and setup of Cisco Small Business wireless access points to accommodate your unique workplace design, building structure, and anticipated workloads.

Cisco's Small Business WAP121 Access Point is a wall-mountable, single-radio 2.4GHz device that can handle 16 active 802.11b/g/n wireless clients, includes a 10/100 Ethernet interface, allows up to four access pointss and 40 active wireless clients in a cluster, and supports sustained throughput of 300 Mbps. Cisco's WAP125 is an entry-level desktop 802.11ac Wi-Fi access point that features a 1xGE LAN port with PoE, delivers performance as high as 867 Mbps, handles 10 active clients, and works with Cisco's FindIT Network Management platform for easy setup and control. The Cisco Small Business WAP131 is a desktop dual-radio 802.11n access point that can handle 16 active wireless clients per radio for up to 32 clients, features a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface, and can support sustained data rates of up to 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP131 does not support clustering. Cisco's Small Business WAP150 is a value-priced Wave 1 dual-radio AC/n wireless access point that includes a 1xGE Power over Ethernet port and can support 16 clients per radio with 867 Mbps throughput for AC clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. The Cisco WAP1501 allows four APs per cluster.

Cisco's Small Business WAP321 Wireless-N model is a wallmount selectable-band (either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) 802.11n unit with support for up to 80 wireless clients sharing an 8-AP cluster. The Cisco WAP321 has a Gigabit Ethernet port and can support throughput of 300 Mbps for the selected radio. The Cisco Small Business WAP351 is a dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11n AP that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet interface and can support 32 wireless clients per radio for up to 64 clients, and support a data rate of 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP351 access point does not support clustering. Cisco's WAP361 is a dual-radio 802.11ac Wave 1 AP that features a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch, allows 32 active WLAN clients on each radio, and delivers 867 Mbps throughput for wireless AC devices and 300 Mbps performance for 802.11n clients. Cisco's WAP361 allows 8 WAP361 access points per cluster. Cisco's wallmount WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-radio device that works with 802.11a/b/g/n and the new 802.11ac wireless networking standard. The WAP371 Wireless-AC/N has a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface, can support up to 32 active wireless clients on each radio, and eight APs for each cluster.

The Cisco Small Business WAP561 802.11n Dual Radio Selectable Band AP includes a 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interface and dual radios that deliver 450 Mbps throughput for each radio, support 64 devices for each radio, and allow up to 16 APs for each cluster. The Cisco WAP551 is similar to Cisco's WAP 561 but features a single radio selectable band (2.4 or 5.0 GHz). Cisco's Small Business WAP571 and WAP571E (the ruggedized outdoor version) are dual-band 802.11ac Wave 1 APs incorporating two fixed Gigabit Ethernet LAN interfaces with link aggregation, and up to 1.9 Gigabit/sec performance with 1300 Mbps on 802.11ac and 600 Mbps on 802.11n. Both devices can handle 32 active WAN clients on each radio and 16 APs per cluster.

Cisco's WAP581 Wireless-AC Wave 2 Wireless Access Point complies with the Wi-Fi 5 standard and offers 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO to deliver 2.8 Gbps data rates on the 5.0-Ghz radio and 600 Mbps on the 2.4-GHz radio for an aggregate top throughput of 2.4 Gbps. The Small Business WAP581 has an integrated 2.5G Ethernet LAN interface and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface with 802.3at Power over Ethernet. The WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 AP supports up to 200 connective users, a maximum of 50 active client users per radio, 16 access points per cluster, and 960 active client users per cluster.

How Progent Can Assist You with Cisco Small Business Wireless Access Points
Progent can provide affordable online or on-premises support from a certified CCIE network infrastructure expert to assist you to design, deploy, administer, optimize, update or troubleshoot a wireless environment that includes Cisco Small Business wireless APs. Progent can help you manage and debug legacy Cisco Small Business APs or move smoothly to Cisco's latest lineup of Wave 2 wireless access points based on 802.11ac technology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can assist you to determine whether your wireless network calls for Cisco wireless controller appliances or can be managed with software-based utilities.

Progent's online and on-premises Wi-Fi site surveys can help you to identify the most appropriate selection and placement of Cisco Small Business wireless APs to handle your user volume, provide the RF coverage you need, and deal with your most demanding applications. Progent's cybersecurity consultants can help you to plan, implement and test a compliant security strategy that includes policy enforcement, remote network monitoring, and unified management. Progent's disaster recovery consultants and business continuity planning consultants can help your organization to build availability and recoverability into your Cisco product implementations to optimize the productivity of your seamless wired/wireless network infrastructure.

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