The Cisco Technology Developer Program for Wireless Networking provides a set of specialized partners that offer complimentary hardware and software solutions for wireless networking deployments. This can include wireless client devices, antennas, radio/modems, and wireless management and software applications. These solutions can be used in Cisco indoor and outdoor wireless networking deployments. The product lines that take advantage of this partner program are:

• Cisco Unified Wireless Network
• Cisco Aironet 1500 Series lightweight outdoor mesh access point
• Cisco 3200 Series Wireless and Mobile Routers

Cisco Unified Wireless Network

The Cisco Unified Wireless Network cost-effectively provides superior wireless security, management, deployment, radio frequency (RF) technology and mobility to help enable real time access to core business applications and deliver enterprise-class secure connectivity. Cisco Technology Developer Program Partners offer specialized wireless-enabled client/server-based applications and advanced mobility services to allow real-time access to information at the point of delivery of a product or service. These solutions enable customers to improve productivity and reduce costs by integrating secure and scalable wireless networking infrastructure into a retail, healthcare, or other specialized environment. To learn more, visit http://www.cisco.com/go/unifiedwireless.

Outdoor Wireless Mesh Networking and In-Vehicle Mobile Networks

Cisco provides solutions for outdoor wireless networking and mobile networking in vehicles in markets such as transportation and public safety. The Cisco mesh networking solutions with the Cisco Aironet 1500 Series lightweight outdoor mesh access point and the Cisco 3200 Series Wireless and Mobile Router are two key products supporting these markets.

Cisco Wireless Mesh Networking is a secure, scalable, broadband network infrastructure that enables new applications for enterprise, service provider, and public sector agencies. The wireless mesh network integrates with applications such as real-time data access and video surveillance across the wired and wireless infrastructure to provide customers with innovative new ways to improve communications and security using standard IP wireless technologies. With dual band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) radios and a patent-pending Adaptive Wireless Path Protocol, the network can self-optimize and self-heal in response to interference or network link outages.

Cisco Technology Developer Wireless Networking Partner solutions complement and extend the wireless and mobile networking solutions with the Cisco 1500 Series Aironet Access Points and the Cisco 3200 Series Wireless and Mobile Routers. Solutions that Technology Developer Partners provide require customer configurations, specialized enclosures, and added components such as antennas and modems.

To learn more, visit the following links:

Outdoor Wireless Mesh Networking
Cisco 3200 Series Wireless and Mobile Routers

Categories Within Wireless Networking

Offering enterprise WLAN solutions that provide both indoor and outdoor advanced wireless services and applications. Cisco Technology Developer Partners within Wireless Networking offer solutions in the following categories:

• Wireless Client Devices
  Scanners, hand-held computers, multimedia tablets, printers, and telephone handsets enable efficient, accurate, and timely access to information
• Wireless Integrated Applications
  Deliver customized or packaged applications that integrate a wireless client device to enable a turnkey mobile solution
• Wireless Management and Tools
  Deliver management and deployment solutions starting with the site survey to the overall management of WLANs
• Real Time Location Services
  Provides asset tracking applications to monitor and track in real time using WLAN infrastructure
• Embedded Hardware Systems
  Partners in this category provide wireless and mobile solutions with the Cisco 3200 Series Routers, which require hardware customization, including specialized enclosures designed to meet specific market needs
• Embedded Software Systems
  Partners in this category embed software in the PC104 Plus form factor as part of a wireless or mobile solution with the Cisco 3200 Series Router, including GPS/vehicle tracking, modems and sensor management
• Solution Enablers – Outdoor
  Partners in this category manufacture components that can be used as part of a wireless or mobile outdoor solution with the Cisco 3200 Series Router and/or the Cisco Aironet 1500 Series lightweight outdoor mesh access point, such as modems, antennas, sensors, power supplies, power injectors, specialty cabling
• Video
  Partners in this category provide components software or hardware that complete a wireless or mobile outdoor video solution with the Cisco 3200 Series Router and/or the Cisco Aironet 1500 Series lightweight outdoor mesh access point, including integrated wireless video surveillance solutions, video cameras, DVRs, video management systems, codecs and access screens