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Small Business Series of Wireless Access Points
Cisco's Small Business 100, 300 and 500 series of wireless access points are Linux-powered units designed as value-priced Wi-Fi APs for light workloads. Most versions in the Cisco Small Business portfolio of wireless access points support Cisco's Single Point Setup technology, which allows you to set up, manage and troubleshoot a cluster of wireless access points from a single AP via a simple browser-based tool. All of the models support Power over Ethernet and feature QoS, rogue AP awareness, and bridging for wirelessly connecting to a second network.

Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified wireless infrastructure consultants offer remote or onsite integration and debugging services to assist your organization to plan, implement, upgrade, optimize, administer and debug Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi AP environments of any size or topology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can also assist you to integrate your Wi-Fi environment with your wired network and cloud-hosted resources to create an enterprise-wide connectivity foundation that is easy to manage and scale. Progent also offers affordable wireless site surveys to assist you to decide the most appropriate selection, placement and configuration of Cisco Small Business wireless access points to work with your unique office layout, building structure, and expected workloads.

The Cisco Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N Access Point is a wall-mountable, single-radio 2.4GHz unit that can handle 16 active 802.11n wireless clients, includes a Fast Ethernet interface, permits up to 4 access pointss and 40 wireless clients in a cluster, and supports throughput of up to 300 Mbps. The Cisco WAP125 is a general-purpose desktop 802.11ac Wi-Fi access point that includes a Gigabit Ethernet port with PoE, provides performance as high as 867 Mbps, supports 10 active users, and works with Cisco's FindIT Network Management platform for easy configuration and management. Cisco's WAP131 is a desktop dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11n AP that can support 16 active wireless clients per radio for a total of up to 32 clients, features a Gigabit Ethernet interface, and can support sustained data rates of up to 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP131 does not allow clustering. The Cisco WAP150 is a general-purpose dual-radio 802.11ac/n wireless access point that features a 1xGE Power over Ethernet (PoE) port and can support up to 16 clients from each radio with 867 Mbps performance for 802.11ac clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. Cisco's Small Business WAP150 supports four access points for each cluster.

The Cisco Small Business WAP321 Wireless-N Access Point is a wallmount single-band (2.4 or 5 GHz) 802.11n unit with support for up to 80 active wireless clients sharing an 8-device cluster. The WAP321 features a Gigabit Ethernet port and can deliver sustained throughput of 300 Mbps for the activated radio. The Cisco Small Business WAP351 is a dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n access point that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and can support 32 wireless clients on each radio for a total of up to 64 active clients, and support a data rate of 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP351 AP does not allow clustering. The Cisco WAP361 is a dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wave 1 AP that includes a 5 x Gb Ethernet LAN switch, can support 32 clients on each radio, and offers 867 Mbps throughput for wireless AC clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. The Cisco Small Business WAP361 supports 8 WAP361 access points for each cluster. Cisco's wall-mountable Small Business WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-radio AP that supports 802.11n and the new 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard. The WAP371 includes a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, can support up to 32 active wireless clients per radio, and eight APs for each cluster.

The Cisco Small Business WAP561 802.11n Selectable Band access point includes one 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interface and two concurrent radios that offer 450 Mbps performance for each radio, support 64 clients for each radio, and allow up to 16 wireless access points per cluster. Cisco's WAP551 is similar to the WAP 561 but has a single selectable band. The Cisco WAP571 and WAP571E (the weather-proof outside version) are dual-band 802.11ac Wave 1 APs incorporating two integrated 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interfaces with link aggregation (LAG), and up to 1.9 Gigabit/sec throughput with 1300 Mbps over 802.11ac and 600 Mbps over 802.11n. Both wireless access points can handle 32 clients per radio and 16 APs per cluster.

The Cisco WAP581 Wireless-AC Dual Radio Wave 2 AP complies with the 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5 standard and offers 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO to deliver 2.8 Gbps data rates at 5 GHz and 600 Mbps at 2.4 GHz for a total top data rate of 2.4 Gbps. The WAP581 includes a fixed 2.5G Ethernet interface and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet LAN interface with 802.3at Power over Ethernet. The WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 AP supports as many as 200 connective client users, up to 50 active client users per radio, 16 access points for each cluster, and 960 active users for each cluster.

How Progent Can Assist You with Cisco Small Business Wireless APs
Progent offers affordable remote or on-premises help from a certified CCIE network infrastructure consultant to assist your organization to design, deploy, administer, optimize, upgrade or troubleshoot a wireless environment that includes Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi APs. Progent can help you manage and debug legacy Cisco Small Business devices or migrate smoothly to Cisco's latest generation of Wave 2 wireless APs based on 802.11ac technology. Progent's certified Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can help you to see whether your wireless deployment calls for Cisco Wi-Fi controller appliances or can be managed with software-based utilities.

Progent's remote and on-premises Wi-Fi site surveys can assist you to identify the most appropriate selection and location of Cisco Small Business wireless access points to support your user volume, offer the RF coverage you need, and deal with your most demanding applications. Progent's cybersecurity consultants can assist you to design, implement and test a security and compliance strategy that covers network policies, remote network monitoring, and unified management. Progent's disaster recovery experts and business continuity planning consultants can help your organization to incorporate availability and recoverability into your Cisco product deployments to maximize the uptime of your seamless wired/wireless infrastructure.

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