Insight Management Tool Supports IT-Friendly Features
To achieve adequate wireless coverage throughout a campus, it’s necessary to deploy multiple wireless APs. With many consumer-grade products, it is necessary to configure each WAP separately, update the hardware and software for each separately, get mesh networking to work properly, and get all the WAPs to match the good configuration.
NETGEAR’s Insight Management tool lets the administrator create a default configuration and then add additional WAPs with the same configuration, apply software and hardware updates to all the devices on a site, and configure other NETGEAR devices such as network-attached storage devices and Ethernet switches.
In addition, setting up a mesh topology using the Instant Mesh feature is straightforward, as is creating separate groups of WAPs for security purposes — for instance, creating separate wireless networks for staff, students and guests. All the devices must be connected to NETGEAR’s website to be manageable through Insight, but once the account is created, the management can be done from any internet-connected device rather than requiring an administrator to visit each building or campus separately.
NETGEAR WAC540
WIRELESS: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/Wave 2 protocols
NETWORKING: Total bandwidth: AC3000 (up to 3,000Mbps)
ANTENNA: Multiuser
MIMO: Dual-stream and quad-stream
SECURITY: PEAP, SSL, TLS WPA, WPA2 encryption
POWER: PoE, PoE+, AC adapter available
SEGEMENTATION: VLAN