RFS 4000 Unified Access Platform

The RFS 4000 802.11n Integrated Services Controller is designed to provide any branch office or remote facility with high performance, comprehensive, cost-effective and secure wireless and wired networking services.

No matter what the networking needs are in your branch offices, the RFS 4000 delivers rich voice support including Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) now, Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) and IP PBX in the future; rich video support including video conferencing and video surveillance; multiple locationing technologies such as Wi-Fi and RFID; plus support for multiple RF technologies, including future technologies such as Wi-MAX.

A converged platform of features & functionality

The RFS4000 is a fully integrated 802.11n wireless services controller, 802.11n access point, wired switch with 5 POE ports rolled into one, with IPSEC VPN/firewall/WIPS security, RADIUS & DHCP server, location & RFID engines, 3G failover, and more.

WiNG Operating System: delivering a unified voice, data and RF management platform

Improve business process flow with one platform for wireless voice, video, data and multiple RF technologies – such as RFID, Wi-Fi (including 802.11n) and future technologies such as Wi-MAX; rich enterprise class functionality includes seamless roaming across L2/L3 deployments, resilient failover capabilities, comprehensive security, toll-quality voice and other value-added services, such as multi-RF locationing.

Wireless Intrusion Detection/Protection System

The integrated IDS/IPS provides defense against over-the-air attacks by leveraging the sensing capabilities of AP300/ AP51x1/AP7131.

Real Time Locationing System (RTLS)

Provides rich locationing services to enable real-time enterprise asset-tracking through support for 802.11, RFID and third party locationing solutions – including industry leaders such as AeroScout, Ekahau, and Newbury Networks. Standards-based support for: EPC Global ALE interface for processing and filtering data from all active and passive tags; and EPC Global LLRP interface for passive RFID tag support.

Role-based wired/wireless firewall

Secures and protects the wired and wireless network against attacks and unauthorized access at Layer 2 and Layer 3 with stateful inspection; ability to create identity and location-based policies provides granular control of network access.

3G Wireless for WAN Backhaul

Support for 3G wireless cards to backhaul WAN traffic when the primary WAN Link fails.

Enhanced End-to-End Quality of Service (QoS)

Enhances voice and video capabilities; prioritizes network traffic to minimize latency and provide optimal quality of experience; SIP Call Admission Control and Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions (WMM-Power Save) with Admission Control enhances multimedia application support and improves battery life and capacity.