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Motorola (News - Alert) has launched a new product recently, the AP-7131. This device is the industry’s first tri-radio 802.11n access point (AP) which also feature Motorola’s adaptive AP architecture. Essentially, the tri-radio architecture has the ability to support high-speed client access, mesh backhaul and dedicated dual-band intrusion protection. Additionally, with the help of an expansion slot, the third radio can be modified to support 3G/4G technologies, WiMAX for example.

 

Moonblink Communications, an associate of Motorola that provides WiFi (News - Alert), WiMAX and other broadband wireless solutions, and Motorola also revealed that San Marino Unified School District will be the first to implement 802.11n WLAN using the AP-7131, in conjunction with Motorola’s Point-to-Point systems. This wireless network is being set up to connect four school sites.

 

In a recently conducted survey of enterprise WLAN, the company found that of more than 550 enterprises, almost 40% planned to deploy the 802.11n architecture within a year. Another important finding revealed that the number of enterprises that would use the WLAN as their primary network would increase two-fold in a year’s time.

 

Motorola’s new AP-7131 access point has been engineered for flexibility and ease-of-use for wireless enterprise deployments. It can be used as a stand-alone AP within small to medium businesses. In adaptive mode, the AP-7131 combines the benefits of central management and site-survivability to help reduce the complexity of deployments in remote offices. In a campus WLAN switch environment using the thin AP mode, the AP-7131 can be centrally managed for large scale deployments. This unique multi-mode operation is supported by the same firmware version to greatly simplify the task of building a large scale multi-site wireless enterprise.

 

The access point also provides round-the-clock security features, like intrusion protection, which could prove to be cost-effective for a business, in terms of having to build a secure wireless enterprise. Older solutions time-slice the radio for both access and intrusion protection, limiting 802.11n performance and security capabilities. Motorola’s new AP-7131 with the third radio eliminates the need for time-slicing or the need for a dedicated sensor AP for security thus reducing the cost of secure and manageable deployments. Featuring a fully Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS2)-compliant chipset, a fast MIPS network processor with hardware-accelerated encryption and dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, the AP-7131 delivers full 600Mbps connection speeds, while simultaneously providing enterprise-class security.

 

To assist new deployments, Motorola is also launching LANPlanner, a pioneering new tool, toward the middle of 2008. The LANPlanner will let users see the 802.11n AP placements along with AP-7131 MIMO performance maps for the first time. Also, an Automated Migration Wizard will ease the transition to 802.11n by allowing businesses to specify migration paths, view mixed network coverage and determine the exact number of AP-7131 AP’s required in the final network design.

 

Motorola’s AP-7131 also incorporates a novel industrial design that allows the same AP to work in both carpeted areas and industrial environments by attaching an aesthetically appealing “snap-on facade” with integrated antenna elements. The AP-7131, designed by renowned Italian designers Giugiaro Design, delivers an elegantly fashioned MIMO AP suitable for installation in hospitality and carpeted office environments.

 

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