Cisco ships new 802.11n AP to resolve power issue
The growth of 802.11n wireless LAN access points has been somewhat limited by a well-known problem with insufficient power to APs when using Power-over-Ethernet connections.
Some companies have gone ahead with the faster 802.11n installations anyway, although they have had to string extra power cables to the 802.11n APs to give them sufficient power to run all the radios inside the APs.
Today, Cisco Systems Inc. is addressing the problem head-on by announcing a new Aironet 1140 Series Access Point that works with standard PoE. It also comes in a sleeker design for executive office settings and uses M-Drive Technology, which helps simplify wireless management and improve coverage.
The new AP is available now for US$1,299, officials said.
Ben Gibson, Cisco's senior director of mobility solutions, said the new APs would help "trigger widespread Wi-Fi deployments." Noting that Cisco has had 802.11n products on the market for more than a year, he called them "early adopter" solutions.
"Up to now, it was a compromise with Power over Ethernet, and power was not sufficient [to fully run the APs] or companies had to deploy them with [added] power," Gibson said. "A lot of people want 802.11n, but people were waiting to see if it would work with existing infrastructure."
Gibson called the new 1140 Series the "first to market with full capacity and full performance with Power-over-Ethernet power."
Two Cisco customers said they are deploying or planning to deploy the 1140s after using older 802.11n APs. Erik Parker, senior wireless infrastructure engineer at Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. in Torrance, Calif., said power injectors had been needed for the older, 1252 series APs at Toyota. With the new APs, "we will not widely deploy power injectors," he said.
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