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Business Benefits
Enhance Productivity, Collaboration, and Responsiveness
With increasing dependence on networks and the Internet as fundamental business tools and the desire to increase employee productivity, organizations across industries are using wireless LAN (WLAN) technology to enhance their existing networks. Wireless offers anywhere, anytime network connectivity, improving employee flexibility and mobility, and workplace utility.
Wireless networks enable real-time access to critical applications and network resources across campuses, branch offices, and remote locations. And as public access to wireless services expands, organizations increasingly depend on the mobility of their employees while consumers expect the ability to communicate with anyone, anywhere.
With this increased demand, service providers are offering wireless services that allow their customers to use multiple devices to receive messages and phone calls, and access network and Internet-based information.
Organizations in a wide range of industries can benefit from providing wireless connectivity:
Education: Wireless networks allow schools at all levels to provide a wide range of applications across their facilities without expensive rewiring, giving students and staff access to benefits, such as e-learning, voice communications, and high-bandwidth Internet access, to enhance learning, improve administration, and enhance research efforts.
Financial Services: Financial services firms can provide employees with mobility, giving them instant access to industry trends, customer data, and financial information, helping firms dramatically improve customer service and more quickly deliver products and services.
Government: Public-safety and law-enforcement agencies can have uninterrupted access to crucial information, helping them respond more quickly and efficiently to a crisis or day-to-day operations.
Healthcare: Caregivers can access real-time patient information or medical research from the patient bedside to make more accurate decisions more quickly and continue providing quality healthcare.
Manufacturing: Wireless access to the networked supply-chain is helping manufacturers allow employees to share real-time data on the factory floor and support timely assembly.
Retail: Wireless networks help retailers improve store staff flexibility and efficiency, check out customers faster, and give customers access to relevant promotions, product information, and online ordering.
Transportation: Airlines, railroads, commercial trucking firms, and other businesses are using wireless networks to make their workforces more mobile. Wireless LANs improve efficiency of cargo handling, warehousing, and shipping through automation, which improves customer service and enhances security.
Wireless LAN
The Cisco Aironet® Series of wireless LAN solutions integrates seamlessly into an existing network as a wireless overlay, or creates freestanding all-wireless networks, enabling mobility and increasing productivity quickly and cost-effectively. The Cisco Aironet Series sets the enterprise standard for high performance, secure, manageable, and reliable WLANs. With products supporting IEEE 802.11a/b/g technologies, the Cisco Aironet Series offers a complete line of in-building and building-to-building wireless LAN solutions. The line includes access points, wireless LAN client adapters, bridges, antennas and accessories.
Cisco Aironet 1000 Series
The Cisco Aironet 1000 Series Lightweight Access Point is an 802.11 a/b/g dual-band, zero- touch configuration and management access point that delivers secure, cost effective wireless access with advanced WLAN services for enterprise deployments. This lightweight access point provides industry-leading RF capabilities with a wide breadth of deployment options to maximize wireless LAN performance, security, reliability, and scalability. This device meets and exceeds the performance requirements of the most demanding enterprise environments.
Cisco Aironet 1100 Series
The Cisco Aironet 1100 Series Access Point delivers an affordable and upgradable wireless LAN (WLAN) solution. The Cisco Aironet 1100 Series supports a single radio and is available in an IEEE 802.11g version or an IEEE 802.11b version that is field upgradable to 802.11g. The Cisco Aironet 1100 Series offers flexibility and investment protection for wireless networks. With the IEEE 802.11g version, users can benefit from up to 54-Mbps data rates and maintain full backward compatibility with 802.11b devices. Administrators can configure the Aironet 1100 Series to support both 802.11g and 802.11b clients for investment protection, or for higher performance configure it to support only 802.11g clients.
Cisco Aironet 1200 Series
The Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Access Point sets the enterprise standard for high performance and secure, manageable, and flexible wireless LANs (WLANs). The modular design of the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series allows single or dual radio configuration for up to 54-Mbps connectivity in both the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands and is fully compliant with the IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g standards.
Cisco Aironet 1300 Series
The Cisco Aironet® 1300 Series Outdoor Access Point/Bridge (Figure 1) is an 802.11g access point and bridge that provides high-speed and cost-effective wireless connectivity between multiple fixed or mobile networks and clients. Building a metropolitan-area wireless infrastructure with the Cisco® Aironet 1300 Series provides deployment personnel with a flexible, easy-to-use solution that meets the security requirements of wide-area networking professionals.
Cisco Aironet 1400 Series
The Cisco Aironet® 1400 Wireless Bridge creates a new benchmark for wireless bridging by providing a high-performance and feature-rich solution for connecting multiple LANs in a metropolitan area. Building a metropolitan area wireless infrastructure with the Cisco Aironet 1400 provides deployment personnel with a flexible, easy-to-use solution that meets the security requirements of wide area networking professionals. Designed to be a cost-effective alternative to leased lines, it is engineered specifically for harsh outdoor environments.
Cisco Aironet 350 Series Client Devices
The Cisco Aironet 350 Series of wireless LAN (WLAN) products leads the industry in performance, security, and reliability with cost effective solutions for the enterprise and small and medium-sized businesses. The Cisco Aironet 350 Series access point provides an ideal solution for customers who desire a non-upgradable IEEE 802.11b solution.
The Cisco Aironet 350 Series integrates seamlessly into an existing network as a wireless overlay, or creates freestanding all wireless networks enabling mobility quickly and cost effectively. With the 350 Series, organizations can also easily accomplish frequent LAN changes and overcome limitations created by older buildings, leased spaces, or temporary sites.
