The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola, Inc. announced its adaptive access point (AP) wireless solution providing secure wireless connectivity and service to mobile users in remote branch offices and support for future 802.11n wireless LANs (WLANs). Motorola’s solution also offers enhanced mobility and management to medium and large enterprises, single site and campus WLAN deployments.
Branch offices such as retail stores, nursing homes and financial offices can use adaptive AP to provide a centralized point for managing APs at any location over a wide area network (WAN) connection with a wireless switch located at the headquarters or data center. By switching to an adaptive AP architecture, enterprises get the benefits of centralized management and local networking. As a result enterprises will save by reducing the need for additional networking equipment and dedicated IT staff at each branch office.
Motorola’s new WLAN architecture deploys like a thin AP, but offers advanced capabilities usually found in smart APs — such as local termination of 802.11 traffic, encryption/decryption coding on the AP and the ability to bridge traffic locally. In the event that the connection to the Motorola wireless switch is lost, it can still operate, providing remote site survivability to enterprises. Additionally, it can restore the connection to the wireless switch seamlessly without rebooting or disassociating any client devices, which makes the AP extremely robust and IT staff friendly.
The adaptive AP wireless solution can segment local traffic in a remote branch office, which is beneficial for scalability and helps alleviate the upgrading of an entire existing wired network to support future 802.11n deployments that have much higher speeds than Fast Ethernet. Adaptive APs also support mesh technology, which further simplifies wireless deployments by eliminating the need to run wireless cable to each wireless access point in the enterprise campus.
Motorola’s Enterprise WLAN solutions enable seamless mobility within buildings and across campuses. Products in the Enterprise WLAN portfolio include thin, full-function and mesh access points, wireless switches and radio frequency (RF) switches that can manage up to 3,000 access points.
