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Small Business Family of Wireless Access Points
Cisco's Small Business 100, 300 and 500 family of access points are Linux-powered units designed as entry-level wireless solutions for light workloads. Many models in the Cisco Small Business portfolio of APs work with Cisco's Single Point Setup system, which makes it possible to configure, manage and repair a group of wireless access points from a single AP through an intuitive browser-based interface. All models support Power over Ethernet and feature Quality of Service (QoS), rogue AP detection, and bridge mode for wirelessly connecting to a second Ethernet LAN.

Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless infrastructure experts can provide remote or onsite configuration and troubleshooting support to assist you to design, implement, update, tune, administer and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business wireless access point environments of any size or architecture. Progent's Cisco wireless controller experts can also help you to integrate your wireless environment with your wired network and cloud-hosted resources to create a seamless enterprise connectivity solution that is simple to manage and expand. Progent also offers affordable wireless site surveys to assist you to decide the most appropriate selection, location and configuration of Cisco Small Business wireless APs to work with your specific workplace layout, construction, and anticipated network traffic.

The Cisco Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N Access Point is a wallmount, single-band 2.4GHz device able to support 16 active 802.11n wireless clients, has a Fast Ethernet interface, allows up to 4 AP devices and 40 active clients in a cluster, and can handle data rates of up to 300 Mbps. Cisco's Small Business WAP125 is an entry-level desktop 802.11ac wireless AP that features a 1xGE port with PoE, delivers throughput up to 867 Mbps, supports 10 active users, and works with Cisco's FindIT Network Management software for simple configuration and management. The Cisco Small Business WAP131 is a desktop dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11a/b/g/n access point able to handle 16 wireless clients on each radio for a total of up to 32 clients, includes a Gigabit Ethernet port, and delivers throughput of 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP131 Wireless-N does not support AP clustering. Cisco's WAP150 is a value-priced dual-radio AC/n access point that includes a one Gbit Poe port and can support up to 16 clients from each radio with 867 Mbps throughput for AC devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. The Cisco Small Business WAP150 supports four access points for each cluster.

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

Cisco's Small Business WAP561 Wireless-N Dual Radio wireless access point features one Gigabit Ethernet port and two concurrent radios (2.4 and 5.0 GHz) that offer 450 Mbps throughput per radio, support 64 clients for each radio, and allow 16 APs per cluster. The Cisco WAP551 is like the WAP 561 but has a single selectable band. Cisco's Small Business WAP571 and WAP571E (a weather-proof outdoor model) are dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wave 1 APs incorporating two fixed 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interfaces with link aggregation, 3x3 MIMO, and up to 1.9 Gbps performance with 1300 Mbps over 11ac and 600 Mbps over 11n. Both units support 32 active WAN clients per radio and 16 wireless access points on each cluster.

Cisco's Small Business WAP581 Wireless-AC Wave 2 AP complies with the 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5 specification and features 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO technology to deliver 2.8 Gbps throughput at 5 GHz and 0.6 Gbps at 2.4 GHz for a total max throughput of 2.4 Gbps. The Small Business WAP581 includes an integrated 2.5G Ethernet interface and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface with 802.3at PoE. Cisco's WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 access point supports up to 200 connective client users, up to 50 active client users per radio, 16 access points per cluster, and 960 active users per cluster.

How Progent Can Assist You with Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi Access Points
Progent can provide cost-effective remote or on-premises support from a Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure consultant to help your organization to design, install, administer, optimize, upgrade or repair a Wi-Fi network that incorporates Cisco Small Business wireless APs. Progent can assist you manage and debug legacy Cisco Small Business APs or move smoothly to Cisco's current generation of Wave 2 Wi-Fi access points based on the 802.11ac specification. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can assist you to determine whether your wireless deployment calls for Cisco Wi-Fi controller hardware or can be managed with software utilities.

Progent's online and on-premises wireless site surveys can help your organization to determine the most appropriate selection and placement of Cisco Small Business wireless APs to handle your client density, provide the RF coverage you require, and deal with your critical applications. Progent's certified network security experts can help you to plan, deploy and test a security and compliance strategy that includes policy enforcement, remote network and endpoint monitoring, and streamlined management. Progent's disaster preparedness consultants and business continuity planning experts can assist you to incorporate availability and recoverability into your Cisco product implementations to optimize the uptime of your seamless wired/wireless infrastructure.

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