D-Link Brings Enterprise Features to SMB Wireless APs

D-Link continues to drive deep into the heart of the SMB market, this time with a fleet of new wireless access points and switches. If wireless connectivity is paramount to productivity, or if you’re just looking for a dash of enterprise-class features in your SMB portfolio, check out what D-Link is offering …

According to D-Link, these new wireless units are ready for companywide deployment, and can be especially useful in verticals such as government and educational environments. Included in the new hardware lineup:

• DWC-1000 Wireless Controller: At $799.99, D-Link has outfitted this unit for the burgeoning SMB, with the ability to assign and control up to 24 unique access points and cluster up to four controllers, which means a fully outfitted company can control 96 access points from a single location. Remote infrastructure management capabilities are also available. The controller has some brains, too, including automatic wireless radio-quality detection to prevent interference on particular channels and intrusion detection systems.
• DWL-6600AP/DWL-3600AP Dual-Band/Single-Band Unified AP: At $549.99 and $349.99 respectively, these units are designed to handle the large volume of data created from videoconferencing and can also act as bridges to existing wireless networks. Dual-band wireless-N 5GHz mode ensures the fastest and highest-quality connection at all times. Plus, all the high-level 128-bit WEP, WPA and WPA2 security goodness comes with it too.
• DWS-3160-24TC/DWS-3160-24PC Unified Wireless Managed Switches: These are the big guns, coming in at $2,241.99 and $4,013.99. According to D-Link, these switches are aimed at businesses that are growing rapidly, providing “up to 192 APs in a switch cluster,” and offering a voluminous range of features including VLAN routing, IPv6-ready technology, rogue access point detection, a web-based interface with command-line support and mobile-device roaming capabilities.

Ready to get wirelessly connected? D-Link partners can get their hands on all these devices come April 2012. Be sure to check out D-Link’s other channel-focused moves, including its IPv6-ready networking switches and IP surveillance specializations.