July 2012 Edition
WLAN Control Freak

WLAN Control FreakBusiness Wi-Fi has graduated from “must-have” to “can’t live without”. The unstoppable trend of Wi-Fi-enabled mobile device usage at work and the resulting security and performance issues have heightened the importance of WLAN manageability. A WLAN controller that can centrally manage and deploy AP can be a life saver – even for a relatively small deployment with 3-APs can benefit.

5 Advantages of WLAN Controller System:

  • Load Balancing: The controller intelligent and transparently distributes clients across the different AP for optimal throughput through the network
  • Security: Authentication and access policies are enforced from a single point making them easier to implement uniformly across the network. Rouge devices can be spotted and isolated quickly and effectively
  • Roaming: Centrally controlled WLAN network ensures seamless roaming for all the clients and also navigates access policies throughout multiple physical locations
  • Set-up & Expansion: Dynamic channel selection eliminates the labor intensive channel planning process simplifying WLAN deployment. The APs self-configure by connecting with the controller automatically when turned on speeding up network expansion
  • Guest Access: Easy guest network set-up, authentication and management anywhere on the network
    ZyXEL’s NWA3000 Series of professional indoor and outdoor APs come with a built-in WLAN controller that can be used to manage up-to 24 other NWA3000 series APs. This offers solution providers a very powerful and cost-effective solution for small to mid-size deployments.
ZyXEL’s NWA3000 Series of professional indoor and outdoor APs come with a built-in WLAN controller that can be used to manage up-to 24 other NWA3000 series APs. This offers solution providers a very powerful and cost-effective solution for small to mid-size deployments.

Built-in controller manages up to 24 NWA3000 Series APs

  • Built-in Radius Server
  • PoE Support
  • VLAN
  • WAP2 Security
ZyXEL also offers a NXC5200 Controller Switch that can manage up to 240 NWA5000 Series soft APs for bigger campus-wide deployments. In addition, the NXC5200 acts as a watchdog for the edge WLAN network with SPI firewall and AV / IDP services.

NXC5200 Controller Switch manages up to 240 NWA5000 Series APsNXC5200

  • Built-in Radius Server
  • PoE Support
  • VLAN
  • WAP2 Security
  • Auto discovery & Configuration
NWA3160N
NWA3160N - Dual-Band – 2.4GHz & 5GHz
NWA5160N
NWA5160N - Dual-Band – 2.4GHz & 5GHz
NWA3560N
NWA3560N - Dual-Radio & Dual-Band – each radio can be set to a different band
NWA5560N
NWA5560N - Dual-Radio & Dual-Band – each radio can be set to a different band
NWA3550N
NWA3550N - Dual-Radio & Dual-Band – Outdoor AP
NWA5550N
NWA5550N - Dual-Radio & Dual-Band – Outdoor AP

Authorized North America Distributors:

We'd be happy to assist you so please call or email us for more information
Sandra Beneville Channel Account Manager
sandra@zyxel.com
714-632-0882 x255
Jose Gomez Channel Sales Manager
jose.gomez@zyxel.com
800-255-4101 ext 126
Adriana Manzo Channel Sales Manager
adriana.manzo@zyxel.com
Office: 800-255-4101 x132
John Mason Channel Sales Manager
john.mason@zyxel.com
Office: 800-255-4101 x263
 
 
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