Small Business 100, 300 and 500 Series of Wireless Access Points
Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi APs ExpertsCisco's Small Business 100, 300 and 500 family of APs are Linux-powered units engineered as entry-level wireless APs for light workloads. Most models in the Cisco Small Business line of wireless access points support Cisco's Single Point Setup technology, which allows you to configure, manage and troubleshoot a group of access points from one device through an intuitive web browser interface. All of the versions include POE and provide QoS, rogue access point detection, and bridge mode for wirelessly connecting to another network.

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Progent's Cisco CCIE wireless infrastructure consultants offer online or on-premises integration and troubleshooting support to help you to plan, implement, upgrade, optimize, manage and debug Cisco Small Business wireless AP deployments of any size or topology. Progent's Cisco Wi-Fi controller consultants can also assist you to combine your Wi-Fi ecosystem with your wired network and cloud-hosted resources to create a seamless enterprise connectivity foundation that is easy to administer and expand. Progent also offers affordable Wi-Fi site surveys to assist you to decide the most efficient selection, location and configuration of Cisco Small Business wireless access points to work with your unique workplace layout, construction, and expected network traffic.

Cisco Small Business Wireless Access Points Online SupportCisco's Small Business WAP121 Access Point is a wall-mountable, single-radio 2.4GHz unit able to handle 16 802.11b/g/n clients, has a Fast Ethernet interface, permits up to four AP devices and 40 active wireless clients in a cluster, and supports data rates of 300 Mbps. The Cisco WAP125 is a value-priced desktop 802.11ac wireless AP that includes a 1xGE port with PoE, provides throughput as high as 867 Mbps, supports 10 active users, and works with Cisco's FindIT Network Management software for simple configuration and management. The Cisco WAP131 is a desktop dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11n AP able to support 16 active clients on each radio for a total of up to 32 wireless clients, features a GE port, and delivers throughput of 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP131 does not support clustering. The Cisco WAP150 is a value-priced dual-radio 802.11ac/n AP that includes a 1xGE Power over Ethernet (PoE) port and can support 16 clients from each radio with 867 Mbps performance for AC devices and 300 Mbps for 802.11n devices. The Cisco Small Business WAP150 allows 4 APs for each cluster.

The Cisco Small Business WAP321 Wireless-N AP is a wall-mountable single-band (either 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz) 802.11a/b/g/n unit that can handle 80 wireless clients in an 8-device cluster. The Cisco WAP321 includes a GE port and can deliver sustained throughput of 300 Mbps for the selected radio. Cisco's WAP351 is a dual-radio 802.11a/b/g/n AP with a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet interface and can handle 32 active wireless clients per radio for up to 64 active clients, and support throughput of 300 Mbps for each radio. The WAP351 does not support clustering. The Cisco Small Business WAP361 is a dual-band 2.4/5 GHz 802.11ac wireless access point that includes a 5 x Gb Ethernet switch, allows 32 active WLAN clients per radio, and delivers 867 Mbps performance for 802.11ac clients and 300 Mbps for 802.11n clients. Cisco's Small Business WAP361 supports eight WAP361 access points per cluster. Cisco's wallmount WAP371 Wireless-AC/N is a dual-band device that supports 802.11a/b/g/n and the new 802.11ac IEEE Wi-Fi specification. The WAP371 Wireless-AC/N has a 10/100/1000 Ethernet interface, can support 32 active wireless clients per radio, and 8 APs for each cluster.

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

Cisco Small Business WAP581 Wireless Access Points ConsultantsCisco Small Business WAP581 Wireless Access Points Online SupportThe Cisco Small Business WAP581 Wireless-AC Wave 2 AP complies with the 802.11ac Wi-Fi 5 standard and offers 4x4 and 3x3 MU-MIMO technology to deliver 2.8 Gbps data rates on the 5.0-Ghz radio and 600 Mbps at 2.4 GHz for an aggregate top throughput of 2.4 Gbps. The Small Business WAP581 has a fixed 2.5G Ethernet port and a 10/100/1000 Ethernet port with 802.3at PoE. The WAP581 Wave 2 Wi-Fi 5 access point supports as many as 200 connective users, up to 50 active client users for each radio, 16 APs per cluster, and 960 active client users for each cluster.

How Progent Can Assist You with Cisco Small Business Wireless APs
Progent offers affordable online or onsite support from a Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure expert to help your organization to plan, deploy, manage, tune, update or repair a Wi-Fi network that includes Cisco Small Business wireless access points. Progent can help you maintain legacy Cisco Small Business devices or migrate efficiently to Cisco's latest lineup 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 calls for Cisco wireless controller hardware or can be configured and maintained with software tools.

Progent's remote and on-premises wireless site surveys can assist your organization to identify the most appropriate selection and location of Cisco Small Business Wi-Fi APs to support your client volume, offer the coverage you need, and deal with your critical workloads. Progent's certified network security experts can assist you to design, implement and test a compliant security strategy that covers policy enforcement, remote network and endpoint monitoring, and unified management. Progent's disaster preparedness consultants and business continuity planning consultants can assist your organization to incorporate availability and recoverability into your Cisco product deployments to maximize the productivity of your converged wired/wireless network infrastructure.

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