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Farpoint Group White Paper – September 2012
Midmarket Wireless LANs
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Cisco’s New Midmarket Access Points
Apart from our many years of history of working with a large number of
firms across essentially every application of wireless LANs and our own
sensitivity to the issues raised in this White Paper, a key motivation in
producing this document was the recent announcement by market leader
Cisco Systems of two new access points aimed, as we were told by the
company during a recent briefing, specifically at the midmarket
opportunity. Suffice it to say that, despite the points we’ve raised herein,
it’s unusual for a WLAN systems vendor to specifically address the needs
of the “middle” so to speak, of the WLAN market – albeit a middle
representing billions of dollars in potential sales. So, while this
announcement is unusual, we expect that many potential customers will
take note.
This announcement focuses on the new Aironet 1600 and 2600 APs. The
1600 is a 3x3:2 (three transmit antennas, three receive antennas, and two
802.11n spatial streams, for up to 300 Mbps) configuration, and the 2600
is 3x4:3, for up to 450 Mbps. Both support essentially the same feature
set, with ClientLink 2.0 enhanced beamforming, BandSelect
bandsteering, VideoStream video transport optimization, rogue AP
detection, Adaptive Wireless Intrusion Detection (wIPS), OfficeExtend for
telework applications, FlexConnect/Autonomous for simplified branch
operations, gigabit-Ethernet wired connectivity, and operation on 802.11af
power over Ethernet. The only real difference, apart from the
fundamentally higher performance of the 2600, is support for Cisco’s
CleanAir interference mitigation in the 2600, and spectral analysis in the
1600. Still, we were impressed that such modestly-priced APs, aimed at
the midmarket, have so many enterprise-class features. By the way, the
photos of the products to the right show models with internal antennas;
versions with external antennas are also available.
We were concerned about ease-of-use, though, given this broad range of
functionality. As it turns out, the Cisco Prime Network Management
System (NMS) is designed for use even by those who are not network
management professionals, and provides simple interfaces for all of the
functionality noted above. Cisco mentions in its marketing materials that
the 2600 could also be quite at home in larger venues as well, making it
an excellent choice for firms that have growth and scalability as core
WLAN objectives.
Cisco Aironet 1600i
Cisco Aironet 2600i