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 Cisco Wireless Solutions
Now You Can Connect Any Time, from Anywhere
Cisco
provides a rich portfolio of wireless networking
solutions designed to increase employee
productivity, enhance collaboration, and improve
responsiveness between employees, partners, and
customers. This solution supports real-time
business-critical applications and creates a secure,
mobile, interactive workplace so that organizations
can exceed customer expectations, outpace their
competitors, and realize a measurable return on
investment.
Cisco Wireless Antennas and
Accessories
Cisco Aironet antennas and accessories are available for
client adapters, access points, and bridges to support
customized wireless solutions.
Client Devices
Cisco
Aironet Wireless LAN Client Adapters quickly connect
desktop and mobile computing devices to the wireless LAN
in 802.11a/b/g-compliant networks. For additional form
factors and operating systems, Cisco has teamed up with
the industry leaders to provide
Cisco Compatible Extensions.
The Cisco Secure Services Client is a software client
that delivers security and management services for
identity-based connectivity in wired and wireless
networks.
Wireless LAN Controllers
Integration of the wired and wireless network is
critical for unified network control, scalability,
security, and reliability. Unified network services are
provided across a variety of platforms including
wireless LAN controllers and integrated switches and
routers, allowing network managers to build secure,
enterprise-class wireless networks. Advanced management
offers wireless LAN planning, configuration, and
management as well as location tracking.
Wireless LAN Controllers
Cisco wireless LAN controllers integrate into existing
enterprise networks for advanced management capabilities
and enhanced performance. They communicate with Cisco
Aironet lightweight access points over any Layer 2
(Ethernet) or Layer 3 (IP) infrastructure and are
responsible for handling system wide functions.
Wireless Integrated Switches and Routers
Wireless integrated switches and routers provide
cost-effective support for converged networks that
integrate wireless connectivity. Integrated platforms
lower hardware costs, simplify remote management, and
offer flexible configuration options that can reduce the
total cost of operations and ownership.
Network Management
Network managers need reliable cost-effective tools for
wireless LAN planning, configuration, and management.
These tools must be centrally available and support
simplified operations and easy-to-use graphical
interfaces.
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A Strategic
Partner for Business
Mobility A
Strategic Partner for Business Mobility
Delivering effective and secure mobility
solutions requires leadership in a wide
variety of technologies—IP networking,
wireless LANs, unified communications, and
of course the security capabilities to
ensure control and compliance for any
application across any network. Today, Cisco
is not only the leader in IP networking, but
also the leader in enterprise voice with a
comprehensive Unified Communications system,
the leader in wireless LAN solutions and in
comprehensive network and device security.
Cisco builds upon the innovation and
leadership in each of these areas, not
simply delivering individual components, but
integrating, testing and validating mobility
solutions.
Strategic
Partnership
Cisco mobility solutions facilitate smooth,
fast business operations by providing a
common end-user experience across a wide
range of devices. But our expertise and
services extend well beyond this: They also
cover mobility architecture design, testing,
validation, deployment, and financial
options.
An Integrated Approach
Because no one understands business networks
better than Cisco, our mobility solutions
are designed as an integral part of the
network infrastructure. This approach
ensures that our solutions work smoothly,
for a lower total cost of ownership, simpler
deployment, and improved data integrity and
compliance.
A Complementary
System of Partners
We complement our own broad range of
solutions with an industry-leading system of
technology, application, services, and
integration partners. Our experienced Gold
channel partners, certified in all mobile
technologies, work as an integral part of
your IT team in deploying solutions that
help meet your business goals.
Investment Protection
As end-user devices evolve, Cisco mobile
solutions let you adopt new devices as you
need them while protecting your
infrastructure investment.
Technology Overview
Conduct
Business Anywhere, Anytime
Mobility solutions let your employees
conduct business anywhere, anytime, from any
device delivering three key capabilities to
the organization: insight, collaboration,
and awareness. The technology underpinning
mobility spans the spectrum of network
capabilities: wired and wireless IP
networks, unified communications, and
location tracking solutions, each of which
has integral security capabilities to
protect both the device and the enterprise
network.
Insight
Insight is the ability for employees to make
accurate information-based decisions,
complete business processes no matter where
they may be, and meet customer needs on a
timely basis. It is more than access to
e-mail and other collaboration tools; it is
the key information imbued with the
timeliness and context needed to meet
revenue goals, improve customer
satisfaction, and interact with partners.
The technologies that support insight
include:
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Both wired and wireless IP networking
technologies that link the user to the
corporate network to access applications
and data
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Devices customized for the individual
job role and environment, including
laptops, tablets, ruggedized computers,
personal digital assistants (PDAs),
smart phones, mobile phones, and
wireless IP phones
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Security solutions to protect the
device, data, and corporate network,
including VPN, antivirus, firewall,
network admission control (NAC)
appliance, and intrusion detection and
prevention solutions
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Cisco and third-party applications that
use network intelligence, including
presence, location, identity, time of
day, network type, and device type, to
create contextually aware information
delivery
Collaboration
Collaboration is more than simply trying to
reach a colleague, partner, or customer by
phone, e-mail, IM, or text message.
Effective collaboration means reaching the
person, not the device, quickly and simply
in order to speed communication and decision
making.
The technologies that support collaboration
include:
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Unified communications solutions
extended to mobile solutions, including
smart phones or wireless IP phones, as
well as to desktop IP phones and
single-business-number-reach services
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Applications such as e-mail, voicemail,
instant messaging, or text messaging
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Presence capabilities to understand who
is available and whether they wish to be
reached by phone, e-mail, IM, or text
message
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Audio- and video-conferencing
capabilities that allow users to share
documents
Awareness
Awareness enables visibility into the key
assets and people that are needed to
complete work processes and meet customer
commitments. Connecting these valuable
assets into the network clarifies their
location and status, reduces search time and
procurement costs, and improves customer and
employee satisfaction.
The technologies that support awareness
include:
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Wireless LANs that allow the tracking of
mobile devices and people throughout a
building
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Active and passive RF identification
(RFID) tags that report the movement of
assets and the condition of the item,
including temperature, humidity,
vibration, and availability
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Location appliances that track usage,
location, movement, and trends
Solution Components
Select the links below to learn more and view the related
products of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network solution.
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Access Points and Client Devices:
Cisco
Aironet access points,
bridges,
and client
devices that connect wireless devices to networks, providing
ubiquitous network access for many wireless environments.
Wireless Mesh access points enable cost-effective, scalable
deployment of secure outdoor wireless LANs using Mesh
technology.
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Client Devices:
Client
adapters and other devices that connect desktop and mobile
devices to the wireless network.
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Wireless LAN
Controllers:
Standalone,
integrated or modular devices that simplify the deployment
and operation of wireless networks, helping to ensure smooth
performance, enhanced security, and maximum network
availability
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Network
Management:
Allows
design, control, and monitoring of enterprise wireless
networks from a centralized location, simplifying operations
and reducing the total cost of ownership.
Enhance
Productivity, Collaboration, and Responsiveness
Increasing globalization, flat budgets,
and growing customer demand for
immediacy are driving organizations to
use mobility as a way to gain business
advantage. Mobility solutions can
increase the top line and help keep
costs in control, helping to enable:
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Increased customer responsiveness
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Faster reaction to market events
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Competitive edge through real-time
data access
Wireless networks are a key component of
a mobility solution, helping to
transform downtime into productive time
inside the enterprise.
Wireless networks enable real-time
access to people, applications, and
network resources across campuses,
branch offices, and remote locations.
Service providers recognize the demand
and are offering new, innovative
wireless services. As high-speed
municipal networks and public hot zones
expand, the same rich enterprise
application experience will be available
to mobile workers, whether they're on
transportation systems or in cafés,
restaurants, and hotels and around a
metro area.
Organizations in a wide range of
industries can benefit from providing
wireless connectivity:
Education:
Wireless networks allow schools at all
levels to provide a wide range of applications across their facilities
without expensive rewiring, giving students and staff access to
benefits, such as e-learning, voice communications, and high-bandwidth
Internet access, to enhance learning, improve administration, and
enhance research efforts.
Financial Services:
Financial services firms can provide employees with
mobility, giving them instant access to industry trends, customer data,
and financial information, helping firms dramatically improve customer
service and more quickly deliver products and services.
Government:
Public-safety and law-enforcement agencies can have uninterrupted access
to crucial information, helping them respond more quickly and
efficiently to a crisis or day-to-day operations.
Healthcare:
Caregivers can access real-time patient
information or medical research from the patient bedside to make more
accurate decisions more quickly and continue providing quality
healthcare.
Manufacturing:
Wireless
access to the networked supply-chain is helping manufacturers allow
employees to share real-time data on the factory floor and support
timely assembly.
Retail:
Wireless networks help retailers
improve store staff flexibility and efficiency, check out customers
faster, and give customers access to relevant promotions, product
information, and online ordering.
Transportation:
Airlines,
railroads, commercial trucking firms, and other businesses are using
wireless networks to make their workforces more mobile. Wireless LANs
improve efficiency of cargo handling, warehousing, and shipping through
automation, which improves customer service and enhances security.
Featured Case Study
Government
City Uses Wireless Communications to
Improve Public Safety
City of Gilroy, California, deployed
the Cisco Outdoor Wireless Solution
to improve public safety and quality
of life for its citizens.
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