Trapeze Networks, a Belden Brand, has released three new product platforms in its 802.11n offering family – the Mobility Exchange (MX) 800R, a 802.11n wireless networking controller, and the Mobility Point (MP) 522 and 522E, 802.11n indoor and outdoor wireless access points (APs).
Trapeze Networks’s MX-800R high-capacity wireless networking controller built on a scalable hardware-based WLAN packet processing architecture offers enabled Switching Silicon – hardware-accelerated Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) processing and forwarding.
The MX-800R is capable of handling traffic from 2-stream and 3-stream Aps and offers three-stream ready for up to 128 dual-radio 802.11n APs with 8Gbps of line-rate wireless switching. It also features dual power, hitless-failover, link aggregation, controller virtualisation and clustering, and self optimising/self healing.
The company said that its new MP-522 has tamper-proof internal antennas for high-density indoor applications and supports granular control of transmit power to suit deployment needs. The MP-522E has external antenna ports for hybrid indoor/outdoor uses, and is ideal for outdoor applications with a climate controlled enclosure and flexible options including a solar panel with PoE.
The MP-522 and 522E are ‘Green APs’ with concurrent dual-radio operation at highest rates within 802.3af PoE power budget and under 9W idle power consumption.
Trapeze Networks claimed that its spectrum analysis implementation lets IT departments experience enhanced spectrum analysis benefits due to its integration with Mobility Services in an SLA framework. MP-522 allows simultaneous or dedicated spectrum scanning and is used as an extension to existing ActiveScan and SentryScan technologies.
