Cisco Aironet 1300 AP/Bridge

Product Overview

The Cisco® Aironet® 1300 Series Outdoor Access Point/Bridge is an 802.11g access point and bridge that provides high-speed and cost-effective wireless connectivity between multiple fixed or mobile networks and clients. Building a metropolitan-area wireless infrastructure with the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series provides deployment personnel with a flexible, easy-to-use solution that meets the security requirements of wide-area networking professionals.

The Cisco Aironet 1300 Series supports the 802.11g standard—providing 54-Mbps data rates with a proven, secure technology while maintaining full backward compatibility with legacy 802.11b devices. Cisco Systems® makes the maintenance and installation of the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series easy by integrating it with your wired network via the Cisco Structured Wireless-Area Network (SWAN) solution. Based on Cisco IOS® Software, the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series provides advanced features such as Fast Secure Roaming, quality of service (QoS), and VLANs.

The flexibility of the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series allows it to operate as a wireless bridge, access point, or a workgroup bridge.

Access Point

Engineered specifically for harsh outdoor environments, yet also capable in indoor deployments, the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series is ideal for wireless LANs (WLANs) requiring external access points. The Cisco Aironet 1300 Series is Wi-Fi Certified™ as an access point and also supports the innovative features available with Cisco Aironet and Cisco Compatible client devices.

Bridge

The Cisco Aironet 1300 Series supports either point-to-point or point-to-multipoint configuration to cost-effectively interconnect remote, temporary, or mobile networks. It can serve as an upgrade or replacement to the Cisco Aironet 350 Wireless Bridge by providing over-the-air compatibility with existing Cisco Aironet 350 Series wireless bridges. While in bridge mode, client associations are also accepted—effectively providing simultaneous bridge and access point capability.

Workgroup Bridge

As a workgroup bridge, the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series quickly connects any Ethernet-enabled device, such as a laptop or other portable computer, to a WLAN. By adding a standard Ethernet hub or switch, you can connect up to 255 of these devices to any Cisco Aironet access point or wireless bridge.

Users and Applications

The Cisco Aironet 1300 Series can provide an ongoing savings of leased-line expenses, a method to connect networks despite physical barriers such as lakes or highways, and rapid deployment of network connections—often while waiting on other facilities such as fiber-optic installations. Typical organizations that will benefit from the advantages of the Cisco Aironet 1300 Series include: education, enterprise, government, healthcare, military, public safety, transportation, and WLAN service providers. These organizations have a variety of possible applications such as college campus or corporate offices with multiple buildings, nomadic networks and users on buses, trains, ambulances or patrol cars, and outdoor public access areas in hotels, airports and coffee shops.