Stefan Mileschin

The enterprise Wi-Fi market is a hotly contested one with expensive offerings from companies such as Aruba Networks and Ruckus Wireless being the preferred choice of many IT administrators. Primary requirements for products in this market are the ability to support high client device densities and the
provision of a robust and flexible management interface. We covered the launch of the Ubiquiti UniFi 3.0 and Xirrus XR620 earlier this year.

Traditional consumer Wi-Fi vendors have also started targeting offerings towards this expanding market segment recently. Coinciding with Interop 2014, we have Linksys launching two and ZyXEL officially launching one 802.11ac access point targeting business users. The Linksys LAPAC1200 is a 2x2 design, while the LAPAC1750 is a 3x3 one. The ZyXEL NWA1123-AC is a 2x2 design. All three devices are ceiling-mount units which are dual-band capable and support Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) to eliminate extra power connectors. As applicable to business users, we have support for multiple SSIDs, Layer-2 isolation, specific security features including 802.1X RADIUS authentication, MAC-based ACL etc.

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