Motorola Introduces 802.11n Wireless LAN Switch Enabling the All-Wireless Enterprise

Motorola Introduces 802.11n Wireless LAN Switch Enabling the All-Wireless Enterprise

The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced its Motorola RFS6000, the latest addition to a family of high-performance multi-core processor-based wireless LAN (WLAN) switches, targeted at mid-sized enterprises. The RFS6000 supports an all-wireless enterprise vision, enabling businesses to build an enterprise WLAN that serves the entire organization from workers in corporate headquarters to manufacturing and distribution plants to remote branch offices.

With the industry’s leading installed base of more than 125,000 WLAN switches, Motorola has the market’s most thoroughly tested WLAN offering. The addition of the RFS6000 and mesh-enabled adaptive 802.11a/b/g/n access points (APs) gives Motorola the industry’s most complete indoor and outdoor WLAN portfolio to enable a truly wireless enterprise.

“We expect more than 75 percent of enterprise end-point devices to be wirelessly connected to the company network within four to five years,” says Jack Gold, President, J.Gold Associates. “This will include not only data-centric devices, but voice and collaboration-centric devices as well, many with multiple wireless communication options seamlessly available to the user.”

Based on the Wireless Next Generation (Wi-NG) architecture this network-in-a-box solution is the industry’s first wireless switch to include the combination of eight high-power PoE ports for 802.11n; a PCI express slot for wireless WAN backhaul 3G/4G services such as EVDO, HSDPA and WiMAX; and a PCI expansion slot for services such as IP PBX. The RFS6000 supports up to 48 802.11a/b/g/n APs and is capable of providing Wi-Fi coverage for up to 2,000 users. The RFS6000 also provides significant cost savings compared to wired Ethernet networks by completely eliminating the need to run separate voice and data cables to each user within the enterprise.

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