Secure Wireless Access Points (SWAPs)

When implementing a wireless corporate network, privacy is key. Cal Net offers two industry-leading solutions to provide secure, reliable wireless networking systems.

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- SonicWALL SonicPoint

- Cisco Airespace

SonicWALL Wireless Access Solutions

Excerpts from the Products Section of www.sonicWALL.com 

Employees have embraced the freedom and conveniences afforded by laptops, PDAs and other mobile devices and are now demanding easier connectivity with the corporate network. As a result, businesses need to provide their workforce with both wired and wireless connectivity. Simultaneously, corporate networks are growing and evolving, which means they need to expand with greater speed, flexibility and economy. This creates a dilemma. How can you accomplish both without compromising network security?

SonicWALL’s complete line of integrated wired and wireless solutions makes it easy to add secure wireless into an existing network infrastructure or to create a new wireless network from the ground up. By enforcing the use of IPSec encryption to create a VPN on the wireless LAN, SonicWALL wireless solutions deliver airtight wireless and wired security to keep even the most aggressive hackers out of your network. A robust suite of integrated features and services provides the network flexibility and security today’s businesses need, whether you have a small, standalone office or a large business with a distributed network deployment.

Secure Wireless Solution

SonicWALL SonicPoint and SonicPoint G
SonicPoints are tri-mode, dual band, dual radio, IEEE 802.11a/b/g compliant, dependent access points that provide secure mobility and wireless LAN connectivity for users on the network. For customers requiring deployment, flexibility, the SonicPoint G is a dual-mode, single band, IEEE  802.11b/g dependent access point with detachable high gain  antennas.  

Ø Comprehensive Wireless and Wired Security. The SonicWALL Secure Wireless Solution provides total security enforcement, central management and scalability for both the wired and wireless networks through a single security platform.

Ø Automatically Provisioned. SonicPoints provide plug- and-play capabilities for automatic configuration and management from the SonicWALL security appliance using pre-defined profiles.

Ø WPA Support using TKIP or AES. In keeping with industry standards, SonicPoints can also support WPA for added security to the wireless network.

Ø IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE) Receive Capability. Accepts Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) allowing easy  deployment, especially where electrical power is not readily accessible.

 SonicWALL Power over Ethernet (PoE) Injector
 
The PoE Injector is an IEEE 802.3af  compliant power injector that detects the presence of 802.3af compliant devices and “injects” power into the  Ethernet cable.

Ø Remote Power Feeding. PoE Injectors reduce the cost of deploying a wireless network infrastructure by supplying power directly to the SonicPoint through a standard Ethernet cable.

Ø IEEE 802.3 Compliant. PoE Injectors deliver standards-based 802.3af Power over Ethernet automatically to SonicPoints or any 802.3af compliant device.

Ø Ease-of-use. Take advantage of the PoE Injectors’
plug-and-play capabilities for rapid deployment of your wireless infrastructure.

Ø Advanced Auto-sensing Algorithm. Utilize the PoE Injectors’ built-in intelligence to automatically determine and supply power only to devices that can accept 802.3af power over the Ethernet connection.

Cisco Wireless Access Solutions

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products

Cisco Systems and Airespace Co-Branded Products

Cisco Systems® now offers several new wireless LAN (WLAN) products that expand and accelerate the delivery of important WLAN features and capabilities for the Cisco® Integrated Wireless Network. These new products, based on the recently acquired Airespace product portfolio, include the Cisco Aironet 1000 Series Lightweight Access Points, the Cisco 2000 Series, 4100 Series, and 4400 Series Wireless LAN Controllers, the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) and the Cisco Wireless Location Appliance. These new Cisco Systems and Airespace co-branded products deliver the control, scalability, and reliability that organizations need to build secure, enterprise-scale wireless networks—from branch offices to main campuses.

The Cisco Integrated Wireless Network is an evolution of the Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network (SWAN) available from Cisco since 2003. The Cisco Integrated Wireless Network includes two secure, enterprise-class WLAN solutions: the Cisco Distributed WLAN Solution and the Cisco Centralized WLAN Solution. These new products are available as components of the Cisco Centralized WLAN Solution.

The Cisco Integrated Wireless Network cost-effectively addresses the WLAN security, deployment, management, and control issues facing enterprises. This framework integrates and extends wired and wireless networks to deliver scalable, manageable and secure WLANs with the lowest total cost of ownership. The Cisco Integrated Wireless Network provides the same level of security, scalability, reliability, ease of deployment, and management for wireless LANs that organizations expect from their wired LANs.

Cisco offers the most innovative and comprehensive suite of WLAN solutions in the industry, addressing a wide variety of customer deployment scenarios and requirements. Customers can confidently deploy Cisco wireless products knowing that their Cisco WLAN investment is protected. Cisco has designed a smooth migration plan for all Cisco wireless products that includes a variety of deployment options, software enhancements, scalability features, security capabilities, hardware advances, and wired + wireless integration enhancements. Cisco will continue to lead the industry in the integration of wired and wireless networking with best-in-class secure WLAN solutions.