Hardware

Hardware

Our customers will further benefit from the fact that Social Connect Solutions deploys only enterprise grade WLAN technology. Most of the social hotspot® services are powered by the best in class hardware from Cisco – the leading company in the field of WiFi technology. We offer a cloud-based, secure and high performance service.

When it comes to WLAN, we apply the highest security standards: client isolated sectors – separation of each WLAN device and SSID network.

Hardware
Hardware
Hardware
Hardware

The technology around WiFi is evolving fast. Our social hotspot® customers will be using managed hotspot with WLAN 802.11ac standards. This technology has the benefit of allowing for up to 1300Mbit/s data transfer – this contrasts with older standards of 802.11n (450Mbit/s). It is important to understand that this “new” WiFi standard may only be utilized if the client device supports is. This is the case with the latest smartphones from HTC, Samsung Galaxy, iPhone and others.

Key features of using the best in class hardware:

Centralized cloud managed hotspot

CMX location analytics

High capacity hardware 802.11ac

Dedicated security radio

Bring your own device – agnostic client device

Application visibility and control

Automatic radio frequency optimization

Identity based firewall

Key features of WLAN access control:

AP operating status

Group policies by device type

Content filtering

Specific user blocking

Network isolation

5GHz or dual band (2.4GHz & 5GHz) operation

Network alerting

Key features relating to firewall & traffic shaping:

Configuration on SSID level

Layer 7 firewall rules

Layer 3 firewall rules

Bandwidth capacity limits per client & per SSID

Individual traffic shaping rules

In addition to core WLAN hardware, we also help our customers with other network equipment such as routers, switches, firewalls, cabling etc. Each customer circumstance is unique so we will meet and carefully assess your needs before making any recommendations.