Wireless Consulting Services

body_wireless_solutions_intro.asp Progent's wireless consulting services offer IT organizations a quick and economical way to update their Wi-Fi environment from legacy technology to the latest high-throughput, high-density wireless solutions compatible with WiFi 6/6E. Progent's long experience in the configuration and administration of indoor and outdoor wireless technology allows Progent deliver expert consulting services for a broad array of wireless environments. Progent has expertise with wireless access points, wireless controllers, and management products from Cisco, Ubiquiti, and other popular providers.

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Cisco's Catalyst 9100 Line of WiFi 6 and WiFi 6E Access Points
Cisco's Catalyst 9100 line of WiFi 6/6E APs are designed for deployments ranging from home offices to crowded arenas. Cisco Catalyst 9100 APs are compliant with the 802.11ax specification, referred to as WiFi 6, which is an evolution of the previous 802.11ac (WiFi 5) standard. Unlike 802.11ac, Wi-Fi 6 is designed to use both the 2.4-Ghz and 5-GHz bands. Headline enhancements supported by Catalyst 9100 Series APs include OFDMA scheduling for high density deployments, dual NAVs for improved dependability, TWT for conserving power usage in battery-dependent endpoints, adaptive power and sensitivity thresholds for better spectrum use, and dynamic fragmentation for reduced overhead. All Cisco Catalyst 9100 802.11ax access points support Cisco's Embedded Wireless Controller, handle up to 200 clients per Wi-Fi radio, and are powered by Cisco IOS XE Software. Newer Catalyst APs support the 6-GHz spectrum expansion opened up by the Wi-Fi 6E specification, offering over twice the bandwidth available to older WiFi devices. For more information about Progent's consulting services for Cisco's Catalyst 9100 Line of Wi-Fi 6/6E APs, refer to Wi-Fi 6/6E access points solution planning, deployment, and management services.

Ubiquiti UniFi Wi-Fi APs Consulting and Wireless LAN Configuration
Ubiquiti's UniFi family of Wi-Fi infrastructure appliances includes indoor and outdoor WiFi 6/6E access points (APs), security gateways, and switches. UniFi devices installed throughout multiple venues with thousands of APs can be remotely configured and administered with Ubiquiti's free UniFi Controller software, which centralizes and streamlines setup, discovery, management, tuning, troubleshooting, monitoring, and reporting. Progent can provide the skills of veteran Wi-Fi consultants who can assist you to determine the value of UniFi technology for your environment and help you to plan, deploy, administer, and maintain your UniFi ecosystem. To learn more, see Ubiquiti UniFi Wireless APs consulting and WLAN configuration expertise.

Cisco Meraki Cloud-managed WiFi AP Solutions
Meraki Wi-Fi APs are cloud-managed appliances that allow you to deploy and administer WLANs of virtually any scale across multiple sites from a single control panel available from a web browser. Progent's Cisco Meraki Wi-Fi AP experts offer online and on-premises support to assist organizations of any size to design, deploy, maintain, expand or repair Wi-Fi systems that utilize Cisco Meraki cloud-managed WiFi 6/6E wireless access points. Progent can help you to install and support Meraki-based wireless infrastructure for environments that can range from a teleworker's home or a branch office all the way to a campus or a nationwide enterprise. Find out more about Progent's Cisco Meraki WiFi 6/6E access point configuration and consulting support.

Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Point Configuration and Management
Cisco's popular Aironet family of wireless access points (APs) has developed in step with Wi-Fi technology and has continually offered enhancements in speed, capacity, coverage, security, manageability and dependability. Current Aironet Wave 2 wireless APs support as many as 400 users each and can handle transfer rates in excess of 5 Gbps. Deployments of Aironet access points implemented with Cisco's Prime Infrastructure design model enable you to build multi-location wireless LANs with up to 18,000 access points supporting up to 64,000 users, all under unified management. Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified Wi-Fi consultants offer online or onsite consulting and debugging support to help you to plan, deploy, upgrade, optimize, manage and troubleshoot Aironet Wi-Fi environments of any scale or topology. Learn more about Progent's Cisco Aironet Wi-Fi AP consulting services.

Cisco Small Business 100, 300 and 500 Family of Wi-Fi APs
Cisco's Small Business 100, 300 and 500 Series of APs are Linux-based units designed as entry-level 802.11n Wi-Fi APs for light workloads. Most models in the Cisco Small Business portfolio of access points support Cisco's Single Point Setup system, which makes it possible to set up, control and repair a cluster of access points from a single device via a simple browser-based interface. All of the versions include POE and feature QoS, rogue AP detection, and bridge mode for wirelessly connecting to a second Ethernet LAN. For more information, see Cisco Small Business 100, 300 and 500 wireless APs consulting services.

Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi Controller Management Consulting
Cisco's Wi-Fi controllers streamline the management of Wi-Fi networks by unifying the configuration and management of wireless access points, tuning wireless performance by limiting the effect of radio frequency congestion, enhancing wireless availability with rapid auto-failover, and hardening data security by identifying threats and filtering network traffic according to user type and locale. Progent's Wi-Fi consultants can assist you to deploy Cisco wireless LAN controller appliances to manage and monitor wireless networks of all sizes. Progent can assist you to maintain and debug your current Cisco-based Wi-Fi environment or implement an efficient transition to Cisco's latest Wi-Fi controller solutions. For more information, see Catalyst and Wave-2 wireless controller consulting and support services.

Cisco Wireless IP Phones Solutions
Cisco's Wireless IP phones are hardened Wireless phones designed for professionals who are mobile within campus, factory, retail or other sites that require portable phones that offer more manageability, security and shock resistance than is possible with the Bring-Your-Own-Device style of mobile telephony. Creating solutions with Cisco's Wi-Fi IP phones typically demands that IT teams set up and optimize numerous key pieces of your wireless environment such as access points, routers and switches, Cisco wireless LAN controllers, and network management software. Progent's wireless VoIP phone configuration and troubleshooting consultants offer remote and on-premises support to help you build and administer a Cisco wireless VoIP phone solution by providing services that can range from debugging the set up of a wireless VoIP phone or access point to providing comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing for updating the Wi-Fi infrastructure of a campus. Find out about Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi IP phone solutions experts.

Onsite Wireless Site Survey and Predictive Modeling
Progent's Wi-Fi site survey services can assist you to plan, deploy, optimize, and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi LAN for any venue, providing you a WLAN that has the reception, performance, capacity, Quality of Service (QoS), security, and roaming capability your company needs. wireless site survey services offered by Progent include offsite predictive modeling for planning a Wi-Fi network and in-person survey services for confirming, optimizing, and troubleshooting your existing Wi-Fi LAN. Find out more about Progent's Wireless Site Survey services.

Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi network design consultants can assist your business to design, deploy, tune, manage and debug a Wi-Fi solution optimized for your venue. Progent can provide remote or onsite support for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi planning, Ekahau Sidekick for onsite RF measurement, Ekahau Analyzer for resolving RF issues, Ekahau Insights for tracking the health of multiple Wi-Fi sites, and Ekahau Capture to capture Wi-Fi communication packets with the Ekahau Sidekick to help wireless experts to identify and repair complex Wi-Fi network problems.

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