The Cisco Aironet® 1200 Series Access Point sets the enterprise standard for next-generation high performance, secure, manageable, and reliable wireless local-area networks (WLANs), while also providing investment protection because of its upgrade capability and compatibility with current standards. The modular design of the Cisco Aironet 1200 supports Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) 802.11b technologies in both single- and dual-mode operation. You can configure the Cisco Aironet 1200 to meet customer-specific requirements at the time of purchase and then reconfigure and upgrade the product in the field as these requirements evolve. In addition, the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series creates a wireless infrastructure that provides customers with maximum mobility and flexibility, enabling constant connection to all network resources from virtually anywhere wireless access is deployed.
The Cisco Aironet 1200 Series extends end-to-end intelligent networking to the wireless access point with support for enterprise-class virtual LANs (VLANs) and quality of service (QoS). An ideal choice for enterprise installations, the Cisco Aironet 1200 Series can manage up to 16 VLANs, which allows customers to differentiate LAN policies and services, such as security and QoS, for different users. For example, enterprise customers can use different VLANs to segregate employee traffic from guest traffic, and further segregate those traffic groups from high-priority voice traffic. Traffic to and from wireless clients with varying security capabilities can be segregated into VLANs with varying security policies. For example, VLANs allow educational institutions to secure faculty and administrator traffic from student traffic traveling over the same infrastructure. Implementing VLAN segmentation increases wireless LAN manageability and security.
Wireless LAN security is a primary concern. The Cisco Aironet 1200 Series secures the enterprise network with a scalable and manageable system featuring the award-winning Cisco Wireless Security Suite. Based on the 802.1X standard for port-based network access, the Cisco Wireless Security Suite takes advantage of the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) framework for user-based authentication.
The Cisco Wireless Security Suite interoperates with a range of client devices. It supports all 802.1X authentication types, including EAP Cisco Wireless (LEAP), Extensible Authentication Protocol-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS) and types that operate over EAP-TLS, such as Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP), EAP-Tunneled TLS (EAP-TTLS) and EAP-Subscriber Identity Module (EAP-SIM). A wide selection of Remote Access Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) servers, such as the Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS), can be used for enterprise-class centralized user management that includes:
- Strong, mutual authentication to ensure that only legitimate clients associate with legitimate and authorized network RADIUS servers
- Dynamic per-user, per-session encryption keys that automatically change on a configurable basis to protect the privacy of transmitted data
- Stronger WEP keys provided by pre-standard Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) enhancements such as message integrity check (MIC), per-packet keys via initialization vector hashing, and broadcast key rotation
- RADIUS accounting records for all authentication attempts
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