Cisco Small Business 100, 300 and 500 Family of Wireless Access Points
Cisco's Small Business series of access points are Linux-based units engineered as entry-level wireless APs for light workloads. Most models in Cisco's Small Business family of wireless access points work with Cisco's Single Point Setup system, which makes it possible to configure, manage and troubleshoot a group of wireless access points from a single device via a simple web browser interface. All of the versions support Power over Ethernet and provide Quality of Service (QoS), rogue AP detection, and bridge mode for wirelessly connecting to another Ethernet LAN.

Progent's Cisco CCIE Wi-Fi network experts offer remote or onsite integration and debugging services to assist your organization to design, configure, upgrade, tune, administer and debug Cisco Small Business wireless AP environments of any size or architecture. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller experts can also assist you to combine your wireless environment with your wired network infrastructure and cloud-hosted resources to build a seamless enterprise connectivity solution that is easy to manage and expand. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to help you to determine the most efficient selection, placement and configuration of Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi access points to work with your unique office layout, construction, and expected network traffic.
The Cisco Small Business WAP121 Wireless-N Access Point is a wallmount, single-radio 2.4GHz unit that can support 16 802.11b/g/n wireless clients, has a 10/100 Ethernet interface, allows up to 4 access pointss and 40 active wireless clients per cluster, and can handle data rates of up to 300 Mbps. Cisco's WAP125 is an entry-level desktop 802.11ac Wi-Fi access point that features a one Gbit LAN port with Power over Ethernet (PoE), provides throughput as high as 867 Mbps, supports 10 active users, and works with Cisco's FindIT Network Management platform for easy setup and management. The Cisco Small Business 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 a total of up to 32 wireless clients, includes a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port, and delivers sustained data rates of 300 Mbps per radio. The WAP131 does not allow clustering. The Cisco WAP150 is a value-priced dual-radio AC/n wireless access point that includes a 1xGE Poe port and can handle up to 16 clients from each radio with 867 Mbps throughput for 802.11ac clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. The Cisco Small Business WAP150 allows 4 access points for each cluster.
The Cisco Small Business WAP321 AP is a wall-mountable selectable-band (either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) 802.11n unit that can handle 80 active wireless clients sharing an 8-AP cluster. The Cisco WAP321 includes a GE port and can deliver a sustained data rate of 300 Mbps for the activated radio. Cisco's Small Business WAP351 is a dual-band 802.11n access point that includes a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and can support 32 wireless clients per radio for up to 64 active clients, and support a sustained data rate of 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP351 does not allow clustering. Cisco's WAP361 is a dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wave 1 wireless access point that features a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet LAN switch, allows 32 clients on each radio, and delivers 867 Mbps throughput for 802.11ac devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. Cisco's WAP361 supports eight access points per cluster. Cisco's wallmount WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-radio AP that supports 802.11n as well as the latest 802.11ac IEEE specification. The WAP371 includes a Gigabit Ethernet port, can handle as many as 32 active clients per radio, and eight APs per cluster.
The Cisco WAP561 Wireless-N Dual Radio Selectable Band wireless access point features a Gigabit Ethernet interface and two radios that deliver 450 Mbps performance for each radio, support 64 clients per radio, and allow up to 16 access points for each cluster. Cisco's WAP551 is like the WAP 561 but has a single radio selectable band. The Cisco WAP571 and WAP571E (a ruggedized outdoor model) are dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac Wave 1 access points that feature two fixed Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with link aggregation, 3x3 MIMO, and up to 1.9 Gigabit/sec throughput with 1300 Mbps over 11ac and 600 Mbps over 11n. Both APs can handle 32 clients per radio and 16 access points per cluster.

Cisco's WAP581 Wireless-AC Wave 2 AP complies with the 802.11ac specification and features 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO technology to provide 2.8 Gbps data rates on the 5.0-Ghz radio and 600 Mbps at 2.4 GHz for an aggregate max throughput of 2.4 Gbps. The Small Business WAP581 has a fixed 2.5G Ethernet LAN interface and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface with 802.3at Power over Ethernet (PoE). The WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 AP can handle up to 200 connective client users, a maximum of 50 active client users for each radio, 16 APs per cluster, and 960 active client users per cluster.
How Progent Can Help You with Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi Access Points
Progent can provide cost-effective online or on-premises support from a Cisco-certified CCIE network consultant to help your organization to plan, install, manage, optimize, update or troubleshoot a wireless environment that includes Cisco Small Business wireless access points. Progent can assist you maintain legacy Cisco Small Business devices or migrate efficiently to Cisco's latest generation of Wave 2 Wi-Fi APs based on 802.11ac technology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can help you to determine whether your wireless deployment should include Cisco Wi-Fi controller hardware or can be managed with software-based utilities.
Progent's online and on-premises wireless site surveys can assist your organization to determine the most appropriate selection and placement of Cisco Small Business wireless APs to handle your client density, offer the coverage you need, and keep up with your most demanding workloads. Progent's cybersecurity consultants can help your organization to plan, deploy and validate a compliant security strategy that includes network policies, remote network and endpoint monitoring, and centralized management. Progent's disaster recovery consultants and business continuity experts can help you to build availability and recoverability into your Cisco product implementations to maximize the uptime of your converged wired/wireless network infrastructure.
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