Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN)
Wireless local area networks (WLAN) have become an essential amenity providing broadband coverage of entire campuses, public venues, private enterprises, and government facilities. And with this growth in popularity has come an increasing range of applications, users and bandwidth demands.
Once associated primarily with web browsing and e-mail, WLAN networks are now being tasked to support more demanding applications such as video surveillance, video conferencing and voice services. The need to address larger coverage areas, high capacity and low latency services, and an ever increasing number of users drives the requirement for high performance broadband wireless mesh networks that overcome the limitations of traditional enterprise WLAN access points (AP), including:
- Time and labor costs associated with both wiring and installation of APs and associated networking infrastructure
- Lack of resiliency inherent in the single point of failure AP architecture
- Non-ruggedized nature of APs rendering them unsuitable for challenging environments such as extreme heat and cold, dust and vibrations
Traditional enterprise APs are not geared to cost-effectively providing the type of secure, reliable, seamless broadband wireless networks that many government, enterprise and Armed Forces customers now demand.
BelAir Networks manufacturers the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of indoor wireless APs and outdoor wireless nodes for secure, easy to manage WLANs that deliver the high capacity and low latency required for video and voice applications, as well as e-mail, web and other data services. Compared to traditional AP deployments, the benefits of BelAir Networks include:
- Lower CapEx: less equipment, wiring, time and associated costs (typically more than 60% lower!)
- Lower OPEX: less cost to operate and manage
- Higher performance, reliability, scalability and flexibility
- Seamless mobility between indoor and outdoor networks
BelAir’s proven ruggedized gear enables fast and easy WLAN deployment and expansion with a wide variety of products, mounting options, wireline interfaces and wireless frequencies available.