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Cisco Small Business Wireless APs Consulting
Cisco Small Business Series of Access Points
Cisco's Small Business 100, 300 and 500 family of APs are Linux-powered devices engineered as entry-level Wi-Fi APs for light workloads. Many versions in the Cisco Small Business portfolio of APs support Cisco's Single Point Setup system, which makes it possible to configure, control and repair a group of access points from one AP via an intuitive web browser tool. All of the models support Power over Ethernet (POE) and feature QoS, rogue AP awareness, and bridge mode for wirelessly connecting to a second Ethernet LAN.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless network infrastructure consultants offer remote or onsite configuration and troubleshooting services to assist you to design, implement, update, optimize, manage and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business wireless AP environments of any size or topology. Progent's Cisco wireless controller consultants can also help you to combine your wireless ecosystem with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-hosted resources to create an enterprise-wide connectivity foundation that is simple to manage and scale. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to help you to determine the most appropriate selection, placement and setup of Cisco Small Business wireless access points to work with your unique workplace design, building structure, and expected network traffic.
The Cisco Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N Access Point is a wallmount, single-band 2.4GHz device able to support 16 802.11b/g/n wireless clients, includes a Fast Ethernet port, permits up to four AP devices and 40 active wireless clients in a cluster, and can handle sustained throughput of up to 300 Mbps. The Cisco WAP125 is a value-priced desktop 802.11ac wireless access point that features a 1xGE LAN port with Power over Ethernet, delivers throughput up to 867 Mbps, handles 10 active clients, and works with Cisco's FindIT Network Management platform for simple configuration and control. Cisco's WAP131 is a desktop dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11n access point that can support 16 wireless clients on each radio for up to 32 clients, features a GE interface, and delivers sustained data rates of 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP131 does not support clustering. Cisco's Small Business WAP150 is a value-priced dual-radio AC/n access point that features a 1xGE Power over Ethernet port and can support up to 16 clients per radio with 867 Mbps throughput for AC devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n clients. Cisco's Small Business WAP150 supports four access points per cluster.
Cisco's Small Business WAP321 model is a wallmount single-band (either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) 802.11n device with support for 80 active wireless clients sharing an 8-AP cluster. The Cisco WAP321 has a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface and can deliver a sustained data rate of 300 Mbps for the activated radio. The Cisco WAP351 is a dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11a/b/g/n wireless access point with a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and can handle 32 active clients on each radio for a total of up to 64 clients, and deliver a data rate of 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP351 access point does not support clustering. Cisco's Small Business WAP361 is a dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac access point that features a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet LAN switch, allows 32 clients on each radio, and offers 867 Mbps throughput for wireless AC devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n clients. Cisco's WAP361 allows 8 WAP361 access points for each cluster. Cisco's wall-mountable WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-radio AP that supports 802.11a/b/g/n and the latest 802.11ac Wi-Fi specification. The WAP371 includes a GE interface, can handle up to 32 wireless clients per radio, and eight access points per cluster.
Cisco's WAP561 Wireless-N Dual Radio Selectable Band access point features a 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interface and dual radios that deliver 450 Mbps performance per radio, support 64 clients for each radio, and allow up to 16 APs for each cluster. The Cisco WAP551 is like Cisco's WAP 561 but features a single selectable band. The Cisco Small Business WAP571 and WAP571E (a ruggedized outside model) are dual-radio 802.11ac APs that feature two fixed 10/100/1000 Ethernet interfaces with link aggregation (LAG), and as high as 1.9 Gbps throughput with 1300 Mbps on 11ac and 600 Mbps over 802.11n. Both APs support 32 clients on each radio and 16 APs per cluster.
Cisco's Small Business WAP581 Wireless-AC Dual Radio Wave 2 Access Point supports the 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5 standard and features 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO technology to provide 2.8 Gbps data rates at 5 GHz and 0.6 Gbps on the 2.4-GHz radio for a total maximum throughput of 2.4 Gbps. The WAP581 includes a fixed 2.5G Ethernet interface and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface with 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE). Cisco's WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 access point can handle up to 200 connective client users, up to 50 active users per radio, 16 access points per cluster, and 960 active client users for each cluster.
How Progent Can Help You with Cisco Small Business Wireless Access Points
Progent offers affordable remote or on-premises help from a Cisco-certified CCIE network consultant to assist you to design, install, manage, optimize, upgrade or repair a wireless network that includes Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi APs. Progent can help you maintain legacy Cisco Small Business APs or move efficiently to Cisco's latest lineup of Wave 2 wireless APs based on 802.11ac technology. Progent's certified Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can assist you to see whether your wireless deployment calls for Cisco wireless controller appliances or can be configured and maintained with software tools.
Progent's remote and onsite Wi-Fi site surveys can assist your organization to determine the most efficient selection and placement of Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi access points to support your user volume, offer the RF coverage you require, and keep up with your critical applications. Progent's cybersecurity consultants can help your organization to design, implement and test a security and compliance strategy that covers policy enforcement, remote network and endpoint monitoring, and unified management. Progent's disaster recovery consultants and business continuity planning experts can assist you to incorporate fault-tolerance and recoverability into your Cisco product deployments to optimize the uptime of your seamless wired/wireless network infrastructure.
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