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New indoor access point supports demanding voice/video/data applications


Johannesburg, 28 Nov 2014

Extreme Networks has released a new indoor access point designed to deliver enterprise-grade performance and security. Dubbed the AP3805, it is targeted at medium-density environments such as businesses, education facilities, hotels and conference centres. It is designed to support demanding voice/video/data applications with a view to enhancing mobile worker productivity and convenience.

"With an ergonomic design able to blend into its environment, the AP3805 access point provides secure 802.11ac and 802.11abgn connectivity, allowing seamless roaming across an entire multi-subnet campus, without the need for cumbersome client software," says Martin May, regional director of Extreme Networks.

He says the AP3805's integrated management, security and quality of service features help reduce operating costs and ensure a consistent user experience, regardless of location.

Based on the latest WiFi technology, key features include dynamic radio management and spectrum analysis with interference classification, beam forming, self-forming and self-healing meshing.

"In addition, security, role-based authentication, authorisation and access control are central to the unit's adaptive architecture, which is geared to reduce complexity and optimise information flow for every application with which it is associated," adds May.

Other features include the capability of the unit's 2x2:2 platform to deliver up to 1.17Gbps of over-the-air-performance and up to 40 000 packets per second on the wire port.

The AP3805 comes with brackets to be installed on to most drop ceiling and wall mounts. Multiple antenna offerings (omni, sector and panel) are designed to optimise the unit's deployment to meet any unique coverage or capacity requirements.

For ease of installation, it is also supplied with an integrated four-antenna array supporting the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. It uses 802.3af Power over Ethernet (POE) without reducing its performance or degrading its enterprise-grade capabilities, according to Extreme Networks. An optional external power supply is available for deployments that do not support POE.

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