BWI: Cisco Delivers Fastest Wireless Network to Tackle World’s Growing Mobility Expectations

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Cisco
Wednesday, February 01, 2012 05:50 PM IST (12:20 PM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest; Business: Business services, Information technology, Major diversified industrial groups; Technology
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Cisco Delivers Fastest Wireless Network to Tackle World's Growing Mobility Expectations
New Cisco Aironet 3600 Series Access Point sets industry firsts, improving wireless experience by increasing performance up to 30 percent for any wireless device at an extended range

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, February 01, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- Mounting expectations of fast network performance, seamless access to cloud services, consistent connectivity and high-quality experiences on any wireless device coupled with the growing number of mobile devices are placing huge demands on wireless network infrastructures.

To support these demands, Cisco is introducing the Cisco Aironet® 3600 Series Access Point (AP), delivering the fastest, most reliable wireless network and best wireless experience in the market today. As the industry's first three spatial stream 802.11n access point with a fourth antenna ( 4x4:3), the Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP is designed to enable people to be seamlessly connected from any wireless device, even those with weak wireless signals, at a greater distance from the access point with up to 30 percent faster performance than any other access point.

With the Cisco® Visual Networking Index forecasting that there will be more than 7.1 billion mobile devices globally by 2015, the Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP offers customers a path to ensuring their wireless network infrastructures are able to cope with growing demand.

Highlights:

-- Fastest Performance: With 30 percent faster performance, the Cisco Aironet 3600 Series 802.11n AP is designed to allow people to take advantage of cloud-based services, run virtual desktops with less lag time, or have smooth video calls, all resulting in better user experience.

-- Higher Speed at a Greater Distance: The fourth antenna on the Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP allows for greater mobile flexibility as more people can be wirelessly connected from more devices spread further from the access point while maintaining a fast and reliable wireless connection.

-- High-Quality Experience with Any Device Client: The Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP includes the new ClientLink 2.0, which can boost performance for 100 percent of wireless client devices connected to the access point, regardless of the device's wireless signal strength and spatial stream category.

-- ClientLink 2.0 can improve performance for all mobile devices in 802.11a/g and now 802.11n across one, two and three spatial streams - from high-end laptops, smartphones and tablets to industry-specific devices to older wireless devices. It addresses the challenge of reliably connecting slower devices with weaker wireless signals, such as tablets.

-- Investment Protection with Flexible Design: The access point's flexible, modular design allows businesses to customize it depending on their needs with add-on modules that provide additional functionality. The access point also provides greater capacity to support additional devices as a business' needs and user base grow.

-- Performance Protection: The Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP includes Cisco CleanAirT technology to help protect performance, increase reliability, and deliver unprecedented radio frequency (RF) spectrum troubleshooting, resulting in the best, highly secure experience.
o Cisco is also announcing a new, optional RF monitoring module with Cisco CleanAir. The new module can provide full visibility into the complete Wi-Fi spectrum - all 23 channels rather than just the traffic-serving channel. By proactively and simultaneously scanning the entire Wi-Fi spectrum for interference and security threats, the monitoring module can intelligently and automatically choose the best channel to serve traffic, delivering the best user experience and fast, reliable performance.

-- Driving Innovation Through Standards with Support for 802.11r and 802.11u: Cisco continues to drive industry leadership and innovation by being the first to support standards-based fast roaming with IEEE 802.11r on the new Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP. Fast roaming with 802.11r can allow clients to move between access points without breaking a session, a critical requirement for many applications. Cisco led the effort to evolve Cisco Centralized Key Management into the 802.11r standard and is now leading again by being the first to support this standard. Additionally, Cisco is also first to support 802.11u on the Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP, which will drive richer and simpler mobile experiences by allowing the network to communicate available network services to mobile devices.

-- Simplified Manageability and Security: The Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP is supported by Cisco Prime Network Control System (NCS) and Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), creating a unique ability to address the "Bring Your Own Device" challenge. Unified policy and access control in Cisco ISE and converged wired/wireless management in Cisco Prime NCS, together with Cisco wireless LAN infrastructure, simplify and help secure the mobile experience.

Product Availability and Pricing:

-- The Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP is available globally. With external antennas, the Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP is listed at $1,595 USD; with internal antennas, the access point is listed at $1,495 USD.

-- The dedicated RF monitoring add-on module is scheduled to be available by the end of calendar year 2012.

Supporting Quotes:
-- Mahesh Gupta, Vice President, Borderless Networks, Cisco India & SAARC
"As per CyberMedia Research, smartphone shipments in India crossed 10 million units in the first eleven months of calendar year 2011. Owing to the proliferation in mobile devices and as the Internet becomes more pervasive, consumers have started expecting - and demanding - information to be accessible at any time using any device in any location. Users want faster performance and constant, highly secure connectivity for any device to make the most of any service, whether it be from the cloud or datacenter. Enterprises need to scale up operations and upgrade their network infrastructure to address employees needs and to support a wider array of mobile devices, operating systems, and applications. The new Cisco Aironet 3600 Series Access Point delivers the fastest, most reliable wireless network and best wireless experience in the market today and helps to achieve the rising demand of a connected world."


Supporting Resources:

-- For more information about the Cisco Aironet 3600 Series AP, please visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/ap3600

-- Cisco Aironet 3600 Series Access Point Data Sheet

-- Cisco Aironet 3600 Access Point 4x4 design and ClientLink 2.0 Whitepaper

-- Fundamentals of Spatial Stream Video

-- About ClientLink 2.0 AAG

-- About Cisco Identity Services Engine

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