SAN JOSE, Calif., January 13, 2009 - Cisco announced today the industry's first next-generation wireless access point that combines full 802.11n performance with deployment simplicity, enabling businesses to cost-effectively support the growing wave and diversity of mobile devices and applications.
The new Cisco® Aironet® 1140 Series Access Point is introduced at a time when businesses are becoming increasingly mobile and collaborative. The Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n Draft 2.0 access point is designed to meet the need for integrating high-quality voice, video and rich media across wireless networks with greater performance and throughput than prior 802.11a/g-based wireless networks. Cisco, which delivered the first enterprise-class Wi-Fi Certified 802.11n Draft 2.0 platform in 2007, is now taking 802.11n mainstream with new solutions that offer ease of deployment, reliability and performance. Learn more about Cisco's leadership in 802.11n and business demands for wireless in a video from Ben Gibson, Cisco's senior director of mobility solutions.
"Cisco leads the industry with more 802.11n deployments than any other vendor, a result of our expertise in addressing the next generation of mobility solutions that enterprises need to enhance and simplify their business," said Maciej Kranz, vice president of product marketing for the Cisco Wireless Networking Business Unit. "To support the increasing wave of mobile devices, media-rich collaborative applications and mobile user expectations, businesses need a proven 802.11n wireless solution, and the easy-to-deploy 1140 Series Access Point is designed to do just that."
"We increased employee efficiency and improved patient satisfaction by mobilizing applications, including bedside and surgical charting, patient throughput management and voice over IP," said Scott Lapham, network engineer at Southeast Alabama Medical Center. "With the Cisco Aironet 1140 Series Access Point, we significantly enhanced the performance of our wireless network; and this will support more mobile devices, as well as the next wave of mobility applications like asset tracking and mobilizing our picture archiving and communications system (PACS) software to view large radiology images where needed."
"Cisco's M-Drive Technology simplifies the adoption of 802.11n by delivering high-performance and a stable wireless environment," said John Yrigoyen, director of Wireless Solutions at NEC Unified Solutions. "As a user benefit, expect improved wireless coverage, optimized device connections and simplified management."
