Faster, Easier Deployment with Cisco WAP121 Wireless Access Point

The Cisco WAP121 combines business-class features, such as support for IPv6, Wireless-N technology, Power over Ethernet (PoE), quality of service, advanced security, ease of deployment, and flexible mounting options. With these features, it delivers a reliable, high-speed wireless network and helps small businesses easily expand their wired networks.

Compatible with Cisco Small Business Gigabit Power over Ethernet InjectorProvides affordable, high-bandwidth wireless-N connectivity for demanding applicationsFeatures Fast Ethernet LAN ports to help enable quicker downloads for large filesOffers flexible installation options and attractive design with internal antennasMakes configuration simple with Single Point Setup controllerless multi-access point deployment and management technology10/100 BASE-T autosensing (RJ45)802.3af Ethernet Switch, Cisco SB-PWR-INJ-12V-xx power Injector or Local Power Supply (SB-PWR-12V-xx)802.11n, 2x2 multiple input multiple output (MIMO)Access Point mode, WDS bridging, Client Bridge mode1 management VLAN plus 4 VLANs for SSID802.1Q-based VLANS, 4 active VLANS plus 1 management VLANYes, management access control list (ACL) plus MAC ACLWi-Fi Multimedia and Traffic Specification (WMM TSPEC)Web browser, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v3, BonjourWireless isolation between clientsYes, with unscheduled automatic power saveGot a small business?  We have solutions just for you. Learn More
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Learn About the New Cisco Aironet Series 1600 Access Point

The Cisco Aironet 1600 Series offers small and midsized enterprises great performance, functionality, and reliability at a competitive price.

Designed with rapidly evolving mobility needs in mind, the 802.11n-based Aironet 1600 Series offers small and midsized enterprises an entry-level access point with advanced features. With the Aironet 1600 Series, customers can modernize their network to handle today's explosion of more clients, applications, and bandwidth demands.

The 1600 Series offers the advantage of 802.11n enterprise-class performance with 3x3 multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) technology with two spatial streams-ideal for small and midsized enterprises.

It provides efficient wireless coverage through Cisco ClientLink 2.0, CleanAir Express*, and Cisco Wireless VideoStream technologies. Cisco ClientLink 2.0 on the Aironet 1600 Series works to improve downlink performance and range for most mobile devices, while improving battery life on devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Cisco Aironet 1600 Series Access Points are designed to help ensure an interference-free, high-speed, wireless experience.

Entry-level access point for small to midsized organizations, including retail, manufacturing, education, and branch officesAttractive price and performance for migrating to 802.11nUp to six times more capacity to support applications and clients than legacy 802.11a/b/g networksCisco ClientLink 2.0 for better downlink performance and range and longer battery life on mobile devicesCisco CleanAir Express* for proactive spectrum intelligence to address RF interference problems Limited Lifetime Hardware Warranty, including 10-day advance hardware replacementCisco ClientLink 2.0 technologyCisco VideoStream technologyCisco BandselectCleanAir Express*

*Available through future software updates.

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Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences: Boost Revenues with Better Service

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Wi-Fi has always enabled faster, mobile network connectivity to make internal processes more efficient. Now you can use it as a tool to more effectively engage your customers, provide the right content at the right time, and generate revenue.

Using smartphones and the mobile Internet, your customers have embraced a connected lifestyle. Whether you are in retail, hospitality, transportation, healthcare, education, or government, Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) lets you tap into this lifestyle now. Provide your customers with a highly personalized mobile experience that builds loyalty and boosts customer satisfaction.

Built upon Cisco Unified Access infrastructure, CMX is a platform for business innovation that includes:

Cisco Mobility Services Engine, Cisco wireless access points, and Cisco wireless controllers

Detect presence of mobile devices, transparently connect to Wi-Fi, and locate mobile devices to deliver location-based services.

An open Mobility Services Representational State Transfer (REST) API

Easily integrate location and contextual attributes into relevant customer applications.

Cisco and ecosystem partner applications

Deliver location-aware guest access, device-based services, browser-based services, mobile apps, online and onsite analytics, social analytics, and ads and offers.

CMX helps organizations increase efficiencies by better understanding customer behavior with onsite, online, and social analytics.

Onsite location analytics uses CMX to detect presence, locate, and track all Wi-Fi devices. It then aggregates and enhances the data to gain insight into the visitor interaction with the venue. The analytics engine classifies and groups the data based on defined criteria to provide information such as dwell times, crowding index, and traffic paths.

Online analytics equip organizations with the top websites that customers are visiting while in the venue, and the percentage of visitors who have taken advantage of online banner campaigns. Online analytics can help organizations better understand aggregate trends of websites such as online reviews, competitor offers, and social media chatter. The data helps customers combat show rooming and deliver a more relevant mobile experience.

Social analytics, including the Cisco CMX for Facebook Wi-Fi solution, deliver social media demographic information of customers who have checked in to the venue from their mobile device. With this information, organizations can gather aggregate trends such as age, gender, or city of origin.

The intelligence from CMX Analytics helps you provide the most rewarding experience for you and your customers. Get more from your wireless network with Cisco CMX.

The ability to capture new customers and keep existing customers by delivering more value is essential to continued growth in all customer-facing industries. Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) allows customers to connect through your onsite Wi-Fi. It opens a direct channel of communication that lets you better understand and deliver what your customers want.

When you more effectively engage your customers, you can:

Increase loyalty of existing customers and attract new customers by providing them with a personalized experienceIncrease customer conversion by providing key information at critical decision points in the purchase processReduce potential for show rooming by proactively responding to online customer behaviorIncrease brand exposure through social media check-in and feed streamingIncrease customer satisfaction by helping customers make decisions more aligned with their needs

By helping you better understand how your customers actually behave while at your site, Cisco CMX helps you make the best use of your floor plan. With this improved insight, you can:

Determine the most trafficked locations to position or price products or servicesAdjust venue layout to optimize traffic flow in periods of high useAdjust venue layout to place goods or services along the most used pathwaysStaff service locations to accommodate customer flows and time of dayEvaluate impact of floor plan adjustmentsFor your customers and your business, the Cisco CMX solution can deliver the right information at the right time.

The CMX solution integrates new and existing Cisco technologies and services with hardware and software components supplied by third-party partners.

Cisco Aironet Access Points

Provide robust wireless performance and optimized performance.

Cisco Wireless Controllers

Support large and small wireless deployments.

Cisco Mobility Services Engine (MSE)

Get advanced spectrum capabilities, location services, advanced location services, and adaptive wireless IPS. The MSE is available as a physical or virtual appliance, and includes APIs and an SDK to support a growing ecosystem of third-party applications.

Cisco Identity Services Engine

Manage and enforce policy for wireless onboarding and access with saved profiles that determine the level of access suitable for guest networks.

Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Get complete wired and wireless network management and reporting from a single pane. Cisco Prime Infrastructure functions as the interface for the Cisco Mobility Services Engine.

This Cisco developed standard allows mobile device users to automatically shift from 3G/4G to W-Fi connectivity based on roaming credentials administered by services providers.

Most of the world's leading service providers use Cisco carrier-grade switches, routers, and network components.

CMX Ecosystem Partners

Partners in the Cisco Developer Network deliver location-aware guest access, device-based services, browser-based services, mobile apps, online and onsite analytics, social analytics, and ads and offers.

Open up new revenue opportunities for enterprises and service providers. Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences (CMX) provide the wireless platform for business and network service innovation. Cisco Services, together with Cisco partners, offers services to help plan, build, and manage your mobile wireless solution and get the most from your existing network.

For enterprises, Cisco Services helps extend bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives beyond employees, to engage customers with a personalized mobile experience based on their location and preferences. For service providers, Cisco Services can help expand 4G, Long-Term Evolution (LTE), and Wi-Fi services with small cells to provide personalized mobility services.

To deliver an effective and optimized mobile experience, your deployment should consider the industry, business, customer, and your existing network infrastructure. Cisco Services, together with its partners, can help with professional services that support you across three important areas of your CMX platform:

PlanningDeploymentManagement

During the planning phase, Cisco Services or a certified partner will assess your WLAN to:

Evaluate your existing WLAN infrastructureCapture both technical and business input and requirements

Next, the team will use the Cisco WLAN Planning and Design Service, which includes location services and high-density wireless. Your services delivery team will use the assessment findings to help you plan and design your connected mobile experience solution, addressing important elements such as:

Access point placement and mapping against venue sizeLocation service functionalitySecurity and compliance concerns

With the scope of your solution deployment well defined, your Cisco Services team can design a high-density, location-aware wireless network that:

Addresses your primary needsProvides a clear path to future growth and expansion

The actual development and deployment of your Cisco CMX solution can be performed by Cisco Services teams or a qualified professional services partner. Either delivery model:

Is built on proven Cisco methodologiesIncludes advanced technology expertiseUses Cisco smart services technology and intellectual capital

After your Cisco CMX solution is in place, you can let Cisco or one of its partners manage day-to-day operations to help ensure:

Peak performanceOptimal return on investmentTalk to your Cisco representative or a certified partner service representative to tailor a solution for your needs.

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Cisco Unified Access: One Policy, One Management, and One Network

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Cisco Unified Access, as part of the Cisco Open Network Environment (ONE) Enterprise Networks Architecture, is an intelligent network platform that promotes connected experiences and operational efficiencies. It is the business foundation to support bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and the Internet of Everything (IoE). Now you can connect people, processes, data, and things with greater intelligence, security, and efficiency than ever before.

Based on One Policy, One Management, and One Network, the Cisco Unified Access solution delivers an integrated and simplified intelligent network platform that serves as the foundation for the Cisco BYOD Smart Solution. Cisco Unified Access allows IT to spend less time running the network and more time promoting innovation that can differentiate and transform the business. It allows organizations to empower their users to work their way.

One Policy provides context-based central policy across the entire network with visibility of who and what is on the network—wired, wireless, or VPN. It simplifies the design, implementation, and enforcement of security policies.

One Management provides comprehensive lifecycle management, performance assurance, and compliance for wired and wireless networks, simplifying network management.

One Network converges wired and wireless networks into one physical infrastructure with greater networkwide intelligence, performance, and integration through Cisco ONE.

Cisco Unified Access is the network foundation that helps IT to spend less time running the network and more time promoting business innovation so users can work their way.

Cisco offers a world-class systemwide policy control and enforcement platform with:

Consistent policy across wired, wireless, and VPN for managed and BYOD assets, revealing who and what are on the networkMobile device and mobile application management (MDM/MAM) integration for greater visibility and controlUser-specific services, with self-service onboarding, guest handling, and location-based services

Cisco provides a single integrated solution for comprehensive network management and visibility, with:

Lifecycle management that simplifies and automates infrastructure management tasksImproved end-user experience with granular visibility into applications, users, and devicesLower TCO and accelerated device time to value with minimal business disruption, and faster problem resolution

Cisco has integrated industry-leading networking and mobility capabilities for a converged infrastructure, with:

A broad range of performance and advanced technologies for unsurpassed user experiences An open programmable infrastructure that delivers network services consistency and simplified deploymentScalability to meet new demands, with faster service rollouts and change managementCisco Midsize Business Solutions

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BYOD Solutions for K12 Education

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Cisco Mobile Workspace Smart Solution

Provide a work-your-way solution for diverse users with multiple devices, anytime, anywhere.

Cisco MidMarket BYOD Solution

Manage BYOD challenges with solutions designed for mid-size businesses.

Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences Solution

Use your Wi-Fi network to engage customers, build loyalty, and boost sales.

Cisco Secure Access

Connect users and devices with confidence, and help enable highly secure BYOD, cloud and collaboration applications.

Cisco Unified Access: Video and Medianet

Make video deployment and troubleshooting efficient with advanced technologies and tools such as Mediatrace, Performance Monitor, and network media awareness.

The enhanced Cisco Unified Access solution includes the following products:

To help you navigate your journey to the Unified Access environment, Cisco Services, together with our partners, offer professional and technical services that assist you in planning, building, and managing your solution to accelerate the return on your investment.

Services from Cisco and our partners support the success of your Unified Access initiative by:

Aligning business and technical requirementsProviding a network architecture framework that fits your businessDelivering scalable, converged network solutions (one network, one management, one policy)

We help you optimize the return on your Unified Access solution to:

Improve business agility and innovation - Services teams help align your business goals with IT objectives, and then design a customized network solution.Increase operational efficiencies - Cisco experts support your IT organization with guidance, expertise, and proven best practices. Create New Connected Experiences - With wireless services from Cisco and our partners, we can help you deploy a wireless platform for business and network service innovation that can open up new revenue opportunities.

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Converge Wired and Wireless with Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches

Cisco Unified Access is the convergence of the wired and wireless networks into one physical infrastructure. It offers greater intelligence, simplicity, performance, and open interfaces. One network starts with Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switches, which combine wired and wireless by supporting wireless tunnel termination and full wireless LAN controller functionality.

The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch currently offers the industry's highest 480 Gbps stacking bandwidth to meet network demand, including gigabit desktop and 802.11ac wireless. The switch delivers advanced capabilities such as a high-performance 24/48 port GE switch, 480 G stacking, Power over Ethernet Plus, StackPower and Flexible NetFlow on all ports.

The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch brings Cisco IOS excellence to wireless by extending wired infrastructure features, resiliency, granular QoS, and scalability. It provides built-in wireless controller capabilities with 40 G wireless throughput, support for 50 access points and 2000 wireless clients per switch or stack, and support for 802.11ac.

The Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch delivers common intelligent services across wired and wireless for security and policy, application visibility and control, network resiliency, smart operations, and more. The switch can enable multi-level QoS based on granular information such as SSID, client, radio, application, and fair share policies for wireless.

The heart of Cisco Catalyst 3850 is the new ASIC with programmability for future features and intelligence with investment protection. The new ASIC provides a foundation for converged APIs across wired and wireless, software-defined networking (SDN) support, and Cisco One Platform Kit (OnePK).

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Extending Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches create the network foundation for your next-generation Unified Fabric data center. Modular Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches, including the Cisco Nexus 7000 and Cisco Nexus 7700 switches, deliver a comprehensive Cisco NX-OS feature set. They offer high-density 10, 40, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet with application-awareness and comprehensive performance analytics for the data center.

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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series Switches offer one of the most comprehensive data center network feature sets in a single platform. They deliver high performance and density for core, aggregation, end-of-row, and top-of-rack server deployments in a highly resilient modular platform.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series runs on Cisco NX-OS Software. It was specifically designed for the most mission-critical enterprise and service provider data center deployments.

The Cisco Nexus 7000 Series was designed around three principles:

Infrastructure scalability: Virtualization, efficient power and cooling, high density, and performance all support efficient data center growth.Operational continuity: The design integrates hardware, NX-OS software features, and management to support zero-downtime environments. Transport flexibility:You can incrementally and cost-effectively adopt new networking technologies.

New technologies that you can support include:

  The new Cisco Nexus 7700 Switches extend the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series with the addition of three new chassis. These new switches offer superior scalability while maintaining operational, feature, and architectural consistency across the entire Cisco Nexus 7000 Series.

The next-generation F3-Series modules deliver superior feature, scale and performance. Integrated with Cisco NX-OS software, the F3 modules deliver one of the industry's broadest feature sets in a single module. This gives customers the flexibility to deploy a wide range of network designs, while protecting their investments.

1/10 GE density with Cisco Nexus 2000Line-rate 10 GE densityUp to 768 ports (copper or fiber)40 GE and 100 GEUp to 192 40 GE ports and 32 100 GE portsUp to 384 40 GE ports and 192 100 GE portsManagement toolCisco Data Center Network ManagerCisco Data Center Network Manager

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Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller: High Performance; More Features

The Cisco 5700 Series Wireless LAN Controller is designed for 802.11ac performance addressing the throughput demand of media-rich mobile applications. Ideal for mid-to-large campus networks, the 5700 Series can be deployed in converged access mode, as well as centralized mode to provide higher resiliency and advanced Cisco IOS-based services like QoS.

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The first model in the new 5700 Series, the Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller, is designed for mid-to-large campus deployments and offers:

Support high availability and application visibility for wireless clientsWire-speed 60 Gbps throughput with advanced network services per controllerSupport for up to 1000 access points and 12,000 clients per controllerHigh resiliency with N+1 clustering, Multiple LAG, and redundant power suppliesCisco IOS-based wireless controller with features such as Flexible NetFlow, Advanced QoS, downloadable access control lists, and more

Cisco's Services can help you increase operational efficiency, lower support costs, and improve availability risk management.

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