Wireless:
Every minute counts in a small company and wireless networks are a powerful tool for boosting productivity and encouraging information sharing. With untethered access to documents, emails, applications and other network resources, employees can roam where they need to and have constant access to the tools required to do their jobs.
Here are some of the ways businesses are taking advantage of wireless LANs:
Increased mobility and collaboration
• Roam without losing your connection.
• Increased mobility and collaboration.
Employees who use your wireless LAN can roam around your office or to different floors without losing their connection. Imagine everyone in a team meeting or in small conferences having access to up-to-the minute communications, and all documents and applications on your network. Similar is with using Voice over Wireless LAN technology.
Improved responsiveness
• Connect to the information you need when you need it
• Provide better customer service
Customers want quick response to queries and concerns. A wireless network can improve customer service by connecting staff to the information they need. For example, a doctor in a small medical office can access online patient files while moving between exam rooms, or a retail sales person can check on available inventory necessary to write up orders on the showroom floor.
Better access to information
- Connect hard-to-reach areas.
- Improve your processes.
Wireless LAN's allow a business to bring network access to areas that would be difficult to connect to a wired network. For example, adding wireless access points to a warehouse can make it easier to check and manage inventory, providing the company with accurate inventory figures in real time.Desks can be moved and new employees can be added without the effort and cost required to run cables and wires.
Benefits and Services for Wireless
Simplified Operations
Cisco wireless controllers reduce operational expenses by simplifying network deployment, operations, and management. Configurewireless policy, management, or security settings at any time through centralized provisioning and management. Respond to organizational growth with the Cisco scale-as-it-grows licensing model, available with all Cisco wireless controllers.
Centralized Control
Optimize wireless network performance while lowering costs and increasing operational efficiency. Deploy wireless controllers to help centrally manage, secure, and configure access points throughout the organization.
Borderless Experience
Cisco Unified Access helps to enable a superior user experience for any workspace with one policy, one management, and one network. You can centralize network management with:
One Policy
Increase security with context-based control and user-specific services with a single source of business policy across wired, wireless, and remote access.
One Management
Improve operational efficiency and lower total ownership cost by managing the end-to-end user experience with comprehensive visibility.
One Network
Provide industry-leading resiliency, scale, and deployment flexibility with wired and wireless convergence, best-in-class RF, and always-on remote access.
Provide More Flexible Work Approaches for Employees
Evolve your infrastructure to support more secure, seamless, and scalable mobile experiences.
- Provide flexible work alternatives for employees by offering a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) option.
Optimize the Efficiency and Quality of Patient Care
Create a strategy to integrate mobile devices, applications, security and multiple networks into a unified platform.
- Sustain an efficient collaborative environment with Wireless LAN Assessment Services for Healthcare.
Why Should You Upgrade with Cisco ?
Our 802.11ac solution offers the components you need to efficiently create a highly secure user experience across all your environments. High-performance, context-aware network solutions will give you greater business freedom. With our 802.11ac solution, you can fully address user mobile density across different device, security, and business needs.
- You can get more scale and coverage while delivering a better experience on all user devices through our High Density Experience (HDX).
- Whether you are a small or large business, we offer the industry's most comprehensive 802.11ac Wi-Fi portfolio, from cloud-managed to on-premise solutions.
- Clients can take advantage of increased bandwidth with support for 802.11ac Wave 2, which is compatible with 802.11ac Wave 1, 802.11n, and 802.11a