The Cisco Unified Wireless Network supports the industry’s most comprehensive product line for enterprise WLANs.
Organizations migrating to wireless networks are looking for a solution that provides:
- Ease of management
- Scalability
- Advanced feature velocity
- Lower TCO
- Mobility services such as voice, guest access, location services, and enhanced security
The Cisco Unified Wireless Network comprises five interconnected elements that work together to deliver an enterprise-class wireless solution:
- Client devices
- Access points
- Network unification
- Network management
- Mobility services
Beginning with a base of client devices, each element adds capabilities as network needs evolve and grow, interconnecting with the elements above and below it to create a comprehensive, secure WLAN solution.
Advanced Features and Benefits
The Cisco Unified Wireless Network delivers advanced features and benefits that are easy to deploy, scale, and manage. By migrating to the Cisco Unified Wireless Network and deploying Cisco Aironet lightweight access points with a Cisco wireless LAN controller, organizations can take advantage of the following features and benefits:
Simplified WLAN Deployment: The zero-configuration deployment feature delivers WLAN capabilities without modifying the existing routing or switching infrastructure. Access points automatically detect the best available wireless LAN controller and download the appropriate policies and configuration information.
Low-cost Centralized Management: Having better visibility and control of the RF environment reduces operational costs. The intuitive GUI allows IT staff to easily configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the WLAN with minimal training.
Reduced Total Cost of Ownership: The solution helps customers minimize the operational and capital costs associated with managing and deploying their wireless network. Centralized management features and dynamic RF management capabilities offer significant cost reductions.
Scalability: It supports business-critical wireless services across the LAN and WAN for deployment of several, hundreds, or thousands of central or remotely located access points in the campus, branch offices, remote sites, and outdoor locations.
Mobility: Support for wireless LAN mobility services(including voice, guest access, location, and enhanced security) is built into the solution. Organizations can cost-effectively implement these services in conjunction with their migration plans. Advanced mobility through intersubnet roaming facilitates device management without required changes to the core routing infrastructure.
Location Services: With location services, an organization can support critical applications, such as high-value asset tracking, location-based security, enhanced network management, and business policy enforcement. Cisco location services support simultaneous tracking of thousands of Wi-Fi devices from directly within the wireless LAN infrastructure.
Secure Guest Access: The network supports simplified configuration and deployment of guest access for customers, vendors, and partners. Guest access can increase company productivity, facilitate real-time collaboration, and help companies be more competitive in today's anywhere, anytime business climate.
Voice Services: The network supports cost-effective, real-time intelligent voice services across an end-to-end Cisco network.
Intrusion Prevention: The solution supports flexible security policies that adapt to changing corporate security needs. The network’s IPS integrates with the Cisco Self-Defending Network and NAC to help prevent damage from emerging security threats such as viruses, worms, and spyware.
Wireless Mesh Networking: This outdoor solution supports enterprise campus to metropolitan-scale outdoor Wi-Fi networks, using the same lightweight access-point protocol (LWAPP) architecture as Cisco indoor lightweight access point deployments.
Organizations are encouraged to migrate to the Cisco Unified Wireless Network to increase employee productivity and efficiency, gain a competitive advantage, and provide network users with a new level of freedom and flexibility.
