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Thanks to Cisco and Intel collaboration, mature IEEE wireless networking standards, and third-party vendor support, wireless networks deliver 

a mature networking solution and provide a platform for enhanced value-added services to extract additional return from wireless networks. 

The Intel-Cisco strategic alliance, based on a technology collaboration called  

Business Class Wireless Suite ensures full capability between Intel

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Duo mobile technology and Cisco Unified Wireless Network products. Business 

Class Wireless Suite contains innovative wireless features that provide customers 

who use products from both Intel and Cisco with additional interoperability. Business 

Class Wireless Suite Version 1.0 focuses on two core areas: enhanced wireless 

VoIP support and smart access point selection technology. 

Market estimates show voice over IP (VoIP) clients are expected to grow 70 to 80 

percent per year, while VoIP use over wireless LAN is expected to grow 300 percent 

by 2007. Working together and with third-party VoIP soft phone vendors, Intel and 

Cisco deliver optimized mobile VoIP experiences with higher audio fidelity and 

improved roaming capability during phone calls. By building specific capabilities into 

the Intel

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 PROSet/Wireless driver such as wide-band codec support and enhanced 

Cisco WLAN statistic support, the improved VoIP experience is seamless to the end 

user. The unique APIs added to the Intel

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 PROSet/Wireless driver relay enhanced WLAN statistics from the Cisco Unified Wireless Network to 

the third-party soft phone software. Enhanced WLAN statistics give soft phone software greater flexibility in determining audio codec and 

roaming decisions, resulting in a higher quality VoIP experience within an enterprise environment. 

Stump 

Wireless Program Manager  
Intel IT  

 

Another key feature of Business Class Wireless Suite v1.0 is the ability to provide client and access point load balancing. Load balancing using 

Business Class Wireless Suite improves client throughput and packet reliability, and optimizes WLAN infrastructure investments. Clients 

typically associate with an access point that has the strongest radio signal without regard to the current access point (AP) throughput or packet 

retries. With Business Class Wireless Suite Smart AP Selection technology, the client periodically gathers statistics from the Cisco WLAN 

infrastructure to determine if a better connection with another access point would increase throughput or reliability or both. For example, a tight 

grouping of clients may all associate to the closest access point, even if the access point is overwhelmed with network traffic. With Business 

Class Wireless Suite, an Intel

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 Duo mobile technology notebook computer could see that more distant access point would give better 

throughput based upon the statistics received from the Cisco WLAN infrastructure. 

Many enterprise employees already use Wi-Fi within their own homes and other hotspot locations. Wi-Fi delivers more freedom and flexibility. 

It’s a natural extension for users to use Wi-Fi in the workplace. When Intel employees walk through the doors of the Jones Farm campus, in 

Hillsboro, Oregon, their Intel

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 mobile technology notebook computers detect the Cisco primary WLAN and are automatically logged 

on to the network. Employees open and log into their notebook computers—and are immediately connected. 

With nearly 6000 employees, the Intel Jones Farm campus has adopted wireless as its primary method of network access on a wide scale.  

The Intel IT group accomplished the engineering feat using the Cisco Business Class Wireless Suite, which combines the Cisco Unified 

Wireless Architecture and Intel

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 mobile technology notebook computers. 

The idea of using wireless for primary access arose when the Intel IT wireless team began investigating ways to increase employee productivity 

and reduce network costs.  In 2004, Intel IT was managing three separate networks—LAN, WLAN, and telephony—which essentially tripled 

operational costs. The new wireless deployment converges data, voice, and video all on the same wireless LAN reducing capital expenses for 

cabling while at the same time satisfying employee preference for mobility. 

Security, reliability, performance, and mobility are at the forefront of the business units within the Jones Farm Campus which include the 

finance department, the legal department, and R&D, as well as many strategic divisions, such as the Intel

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