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Cisco Small Business Series of APs
Cisco's Small Business family of APs are Linux-based devices designed as value-priced wireless solutions for light workloads. Most versions in Cisco's Small Business family of access points support Cisco's Single Point Setup system, which allows you to configure, manage and troubleshoot a cluster of wireless access points from a single AP via a simple web browser interface. All of the versions include Power over Ethernet (POE) and provide Quality of Service (QoS), rogue access point awareness, and bridging for wirelessly connecting to another network.

Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless infrastructure consultants can provide remote or on-premises configuration and debugging services to assist you to plan, implement, update, optimize, manage and debug Cisco Small Business wireless AP environments of any scale or topology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can also help you to integrate your wireless environment with your wired network and cloud-based resources to create a seamless enterprise connectivity foundation that is simple to manage and expand. Progent also can provide affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to decide the most appropriate selection, placement and configuration of Cisco Small Business wireless APs to accommodate your unique office design, building structure, and anticipated workloads.

Cisco's Small Business WAP121 AP is a wallmount, single-radio 2.4GHz unit that can support 16 802.11b/g/n wireless clients, includes a Fast Ethernet interface, allows up to four access pointss and 40 active clients per cluster, and supports sustained data rates of up to 300 Mbps. The Cisco WAP125 is an entry-level desktop 802.11ac wireless access point that includes a one Gbit LAN port with Power over Ethernet (PoE), delivers throughput up to 867 Mbps, supports 10 active users, and works with Cisco's FindIT Network Management platform for easy configuration and management. The Cisco WAP131 is a desktop dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11n AP able to handle 16 active clients per radio for a total of up to 32 wireless clients, features a GE port, and delivers sustained data rates of up to 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP131 Wireless-N 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 Power over Ethernet port and can support up to 16 clients from each radio with 867 Mbps performance for AC clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. Cisco's WAP1501 supports 4 APs for each cluster.

The Cisco Small Business WAP321 Access Point is a wallmount single-band (2.4 or 5 GHz) 802.11a/b/g/n unit that can handle up to 80 active clients in an 8-device cluster. The Cisco WAP321 features a Gigabit Ethernet interface and can support a sustained data rate of 300 Mbps for the selected radio. Cisco's WAP351 is a dual-band 802.11n access point that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet interface and can handle 32 active wireless clients on each radio for up to 64 active clients, and deliver throughput of 300 Mbps for each 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 offers 867 Mbps throughput for wireless AC clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n clients. Cisco's Small Business WAP361 supports 8 WAP361 access points for each cluster. Cisco's wallmount Small Business WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-band AP that supports 802.11a/b/g/n and the new 802.11ac IEEE Wi-Fi specification. The WAP371 includes a GE interface, can support 32 wireless clients per radio, and 8 APs per cluster.

Cisco's WAP561 802.11n Selectable Band access point includes one 10/100/1000 Ethernet port and dual radios (2.4 and 5.0 GHz) that deliver 450 Mbps performance per radio, can handle 64 clients for each radio, and allow 16 APs per cluster. The Cisco WAP551 is similar to Cisco's WAP 561 but has a single selectable band. The Cisco WAP571 and WAP571E (the weather-proof outside version) are dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wave 1 APs that feature two fixed 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interfaces with link aggregation, and as high as 1.9 Gbps performance with 1300 Mbps over 11ac and 600 Mbps on 11n. Both APs can handle 32 clients per radio and 16 wireless access points per cluster.

The Cisco WAP581 Wireless-AC Dual Radio Wave 2 AP complies with the 802.11ac standard and offers 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO to provide 2.8 Gbps throughput on the 5.0-Ghz radio and 600 Mbps at 2.4 GHz for an aggregate maximum data rate of 2.4 Gbps. The WAP581 includes a fixed 2.5G Ethernet port and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interface with 802.3at Power over Ethernet. The WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 AP can handle up to 200 connective client 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 Help You with Cisco Small Business Wireless APs
Progent offers cost-effective remote or onsite support from a Cisco-certified CCIE network expert to help you to plan, install, manage, tune, update or troubleshoot a wireless environment that incorporates Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi APs. Progent can assist you manage and debug legacy Cisco Small Business devices or move efficiently to Cisco's current lineup of Wave 2 Wi-Fi APs based on 802.11ac technology. Progent's certified Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can assist you to see whether your wireless network should include Cisco wireless controller appliances or can be configured and maintained with software-based tools.

Progent's remote and onsite wireless site surveys can help you to identify the most appropriate selection and placement of Cisco Small Business wireless APs to support your client density, offer the RF coverage you require, and deal with your most demanding workloads. Progent's cybersecurity consultants can assist 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 you to incorporate fault-tolerance and recoverability into your Cisco product implementations to optimize the productivity of your converged wired/wireless network infrastructure.

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