The Enterprise Mobility business of Motorola, has announced its Motorola RFS6000, the latest addition to a family of multi-core processor-based wireless LAN (WLAN) switches, targeted at mid-sized enterprises. The RFS6000 supports an all-wireless enterprise vision, enabling businesses to build an enterprise WLAN that serves the entire organization from workers in corporate headquarters to manufacturing and distribution plants to remote branch offices.

Based on the Wireless Next Generation (Wi-NG) architecture this network-in-a-box solution is the industry’s first wireless switch to include the combination of eight high-power PoE ports for 802.11n; a PCI express slot for wireless WAN backhaul 3G/4G services such as EVDO, HSDPA and WiMAX; and a PCI expansion slot for services such as IP PBX. The RFS6000 supports up to 48 802.11a/b/g/n APs and is capable of providing Wi-Fi coverage for up to 2,000 users. The RFS6000 also provides significant cost savings compared to wired Ethernet networks by completely eliminating the need to run separate voice and data cables to each user within the enterprise.

The RFS6000 offers enterprise-class security with integrated 802.1x, WPA/WPA2, stateful inspection firewall, VPN, AAA server and NAC support. The wireless switch is also PCI and HIPAA compliance-capable out-of-the-box.“Mid-size organizations face difficulties in deploying a robust wireless infrastructure that can be managed effectively,” continued Gold. “What they need are products that contain many of the features such as backhaul connection redundancy, embedded firewall and VPN, security and management capability of higher end systems targeted at large enterprises, but at a price geared to their needs.”

Use of Voice over WLAN is also growing within enterprises with the arrival of Wi-Fi phones and inexpensive VoIP services. The RFS6000 wireless switch supports toll quality voice over WLAN with Quality of Service (QoS) and Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions and seamless roaming across Layer 3 boundaries both inside and outside helping to ensure superior performance for voice and multimedia applications.

Enterprise WLAN is part of Motorola’s portfolio of innovative wireless broadband solutions and services that complement and complete IP networks. Delivering IP coverage to virtually all spaces both indoors and outdoors, the portfolio includes fixed broadband, mesh, broadband over powerline, WiMAX and Enterprise WLAN solutions for private and public networks.