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Small Business 100, 300 and 500 Series of Wireless Access Points
Cisco's Small Business 100, 300 and 500 family of wireless access points are Linux-based devices intended as value-priced wireless solutions for light workloads. Many versions in Cisco's Small Business family of APs support Cisco's Single Point Setup technology, which allows you to configure, control and troubleshoot a group of wireless access points from one device via a simple browser-based tool. All of the models support Power over Ethernet (POE) and provide QoS, rogue AP detection, and bridge mode for connecting to a second Ethernet LAN.

Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless network experts offer remote or on-premises configuration and troubleshooting services to assist you to plan, implement, update, tune, manage and troubleshoot Cisco Small Business wireless access point deployments of any size or architecture. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can also help you to combine your Wi-Fi ecosystem with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-based resources to create a seamless enterprise-wide connectivity solution that is easy to administer and expand. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to determine the most efficient selection, placement and configuration of Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi access points to work with your unique workplace design, building structure, and anticipated workloads.

Cisco's Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N AP is a wallmount, single-radio 2.4GHz unit that can handle 16 active 802.11n wireless clients, includes a Fast Ethernet port, allows up to 4 access pointss and 40 active clients per cluster, and can handle sustained throughput of up to 300 Mbps. The Cisco Small Business WAP125 is a general-purpose desktop 802.11ac Wi-Fi AP that includes a Gigabit Ethernet LAN port with Power over Ethernet, delivers throughput as high as 867 Mbps, handles 10 active clients, and can be used with Cisco's FindIT Network Management software for simple deployment and management. The Cisco WAP131 is a desktop dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11a/b/g/n AP able to support 16 wireless clients per radio for up to 32 clients, includes a Gigabit Ethernet port, and delivers sustained data rates of up to 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP131 does not support clustering. The Cisco Small Business WAP150 is a general-purpose dual-radio 802.11ac/n access point that includes a one Gbit Poe port and can support 16 clients from each radio with 867 Mbps throughput for AC devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n clients. Cisco's WAP1501 supports four APs per cluster.

Cisco's Small Business WAP321 Wireless-N model is a wall-mountable single-band (either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) 802.11a/b/g/n unit with support for 80 active clients sharing an 8-device cluster. The Cisco WAP321 features a GE interface and can deliver sustained throughput of 300 Mbps for the selected radio. The Cisco Small Business WAP351 is a dual-radio 802.11a/b/g/n access point with a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet interface and can support 32 wireless clients per radio for a total of up to 64 active clients, and deliver throughput of 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP351 does not allow clustering. The Cisco Small Business WAP361 is a dual-band 2.4/5 GHz Wireless-AC/N wireless access point that features 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. The Cisco WAP361 allows eight WAP361 access points per cluster. Cisco's wallmount Small Business WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-band AP that supports 802.11a/b/g/n and the latest 802.11ac IEEE Wi-Fi specification. The WAP371 Wireless-AC/N has a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface, can support up to 32 active clients on each radio, and 8 APs per cluster.

The Cisco Small Business WAP561 802.11n Dual Radio Selectable Band access point features one 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interface and dual radios that deliver 450 Mbps performance per radio, support 64 devices for each radio, and allow 16 access points for each cluster. Cisco's WAP551 is like the WAP 561 but has a single selectable band (2.4 or 5.0 GHz). The Cisco WAP571 and WAP571E (a weather-proof outside model) are dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac access points that feature two fixed 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports with link aggregation, and up to 1.9 Gigabit/sec throughput with 1300 Mbps over 802.11ac and 600 Mbps on 11n. Both units can handle 32 active WAN clients per radio and 16 wireless access points on each cluster.

Cisco's WAP581 Wireless-AC Dual Radio Wave 2 Wireless Access Point supports the 802.11ac standard and features 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO to deliver 2.8 Gbps data rates on the 5.0-Ghz radio and 0.6 Gbps on the 2.4-GHz radio for a total top data rate of 2.4 Gbps. The Small Business WAP581 has a fixed 2.5G Ethernet port and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interface with 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE). Cisco's WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 access point can handle as many as 200 connective client users, a maximum of 50 active client users for each radio, 16 access points for each cluster, and 960 active client users per cluster.

How Progent Can Help You with Cisco Small Business Wireless APs
Progent can provide cost-effective online or onsite support from a Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure consultant to assist your organization to plan, install, manage, tune, update or troubleshoot a Wi-Fi environment that incorporates Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi access points. Progent can help you maintain legacy Cisco Small Business devices or move smoothly to Cisco's latest lineup of Wave 2 Wi-Fi APs based on 802.11ac technology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can help you to see whether your wireless deployment should include Cisco Wi-Fi controller hardware or can be managed with software utilities.

Progent's online and on-premises Wi-Fi site surveys can assist you to determine the most appropriate selection and location of Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi APs to handle your user volume, provide the coverage you require, and deal with your most demanding workloads. Progent's network security consultants can help you to plan, deploy and validate a security and compliance strategy that covers policy enforcement, remote network monitoring, and unified management. Progent's disaster recovery experts and business continuity experts can help your organization to incorporate availability and recoverability into your Cisco product deployments to optimize the productivity of your seamless wired/wireless infrastructure.

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