Motorola Takes 802.11n Technology Outdoor With MWAN Solution

The Enterprise Mobility Solutions business of Motorola has announced the AP 7181 access point, a secure 802.11n outdoor mesh wide area network (MWAN) solution. Offering data speeds of up to 300 Mbps and featuring Motorola’s ADvanced Element Panel Technology (ADEPT) antenna system, the AP 7181 provides municipalities and enterprise customers with a wireless network solution that supports their current and future data, video and voice needs.

Motorola’s AP 7181 outdoor mesh access points provide more network capacity, enable more applications and support more users than 802.11a/b/g mesh solutions, accelerating return on investment. Motorola’s ADEPT antenna system enables the AP 7181 to achieve maximum performance by communicating two simultaneous data streams in the same channel and avoiding the self-shadowing of typical multi-antenna solutions.

Motorola’s outdoor mesh solution offers the capabilities of 802.11n technologies, while also maintaining backward compatibility and improving performance for 802.11a/b/g clients, which helps customers maximise their existing mobility investments. The AP 7181 access point offers mobile data connections throughout a network by leveraging Motorola’s MeshConnex routing technology to enable efficient routing, low hop latency, low routing overhead, high-speed handoffs and scalability.

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The MeshConnex technology allows the AP 7181 to maintain a continuous video connection to or from a moving vehicle or train, enabling video surveillance in real time. Municipal and enterprise customers can also leverage these mobility features to deliver high-speed Internet access to mobile workers, who need to stay connected to key office applications while in the field.

Once deployed, the 802.11n mesh wide area network can be accurately monitored, managed and optimised using the Motorola Wireless Manager. Offering network administrators a visualisation of their entire outdoor and indoor wireless network through a Google Map view, this management solution makes it easy to manage the complexities of a multi-layer wireless network by clearly showing performance metrics, network relationships and locations of all wireless elements.

Customers can purchase the AP 7181 mesh solution beginning in the fourth quarter of 2009.