Extricom MS-1000 Cascade Wireless LAN Switch

The Wi-Fi CERTIFIED[tm] n MS-1000 Cascade Wireless LAN Switch Cascade scales Extricom’s Channel Blanket architecture by extending the continuous mobility zone to twice its previous size – an area covered by 32 Extricom UltraThin Access Points (APs). The Switch Cascade also provides a fully redundant wireless LAN infrastructure to eliminate a single point of failure and support high-availability scenarios.

The MS-1000 Cascade is a WLAN system formed from two conjoined Extricom SW-1600C switches, each of which is user-configurable as the primary or secondary switch*. Each component switch provides two uplink or interconnect Gigabit Ethernet ports, and sixteen Gigabit Ethernet ports with Power over Ethernet (PoE) to attach any of Extricom’s APs. The Switch Cascade system can support up to 32 Extricom APs, enabling up to four independent coverage blankets to be configured from the same physical infrastructure. Component switches may be positioned several hundred metres apart for deployment flexibility. The MS-1000 Cascade can alternatively be configured in a fully redundant, high availability mode to ensure continuous network access and full performance even if there is an AP or switch failure.

The MS-1000 Cascade is compatible with all Extricom APs and interoperable with any IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n wireless client. Switch Cascade topology is also available as an upgrade to existing Extricom SW-1600 deployments through a firmware upgrade and purchase of an SW-1600C switch.