Schaumburg, Ill. — Motorola, Inc. has announced several enhancements to its flagship, enterprise-class RFS7000 RF switch to support location, management and security services. The RFS7000 can support Motorola and third-party vendor services, providing seamless enterprise mobility indoors to large businesses requiring a wireless LAN for their enterprise needs.
The RFS7000 RF switch is said to be the industry's first radio frequency (RF) wireless switch that bridges the gap between Wi-Fi and RFID, future RF technologies and indoor and outdoor wireless networks. The enterprise-class RF Switch is 802.11n- ready, capable of supporting 256 802.11a/b/g access points, and enables a new switch clustering concept, providing redundancy and high-performance scalability for up to 3,000 access points, said Motorola.
The RFS7000 is part of Motorola's end-to-end enterprise WLAN product suite, which is part of the company's MOTOwi4 portfolio of wireless broadband solutions and services that complement and complete IP networks. The RF switch provides locationing capability, enabling real-time tracking of Wi-Fi devices and active tags to help simplify asset tracking. With this service, businesses have the ability to locate employees for safety or track high-value and mission-critical assets to increase their utilization.
In a healthcare setting, locationing services could be used to track crash carts, transfusion pumps, defibrillators, portable X-ray and dialysis machines. Locationing can also be used to find and track inventory for customers.
Motorola's integrated management suite, comprised of a LAN planner and mobility services platform, is a set of tools to help enterprises more easily and centrally plan, deploy, manage and secure their RF infrastructure and environment, said the company. The integrated wireless intrusion protection system (Wireless IPS) solution detects and locates rogue devices, protecting the network against denial-of-service attacks, as well as providing compliance reporting and advanced forensics.
In addition, the sensor-based Wireless IPS monitors, detects, protects and prevents intrusions to a wireless network. The RFS7000 further enhances the security features to deliver mobile client-based intrusion detection that can disable difficult to detect rogue mobile clients and devices to help ensure maximum up-time and peak performance of the network, said Motorola.
Product information: RFS7000 RF switch
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