DAP-2555 Dual Band POE Access Point Does It Fit to Your Business - Computers - Networks

D-Link DAP-2555 AirPremier N Dual Band PoE Access Point is powered by full features of business class wireless access point including Cloud Command technology for easy management from anywhere via the internet. It also supports advanced security including firewalled guest network and two factor authentication. Does it fit to your business? In small to medium businesses, wireless access is one of the essential services that mostly businesses provide to support the productivity of the employee with their mobile devices including laptop, iPad, smart-phone etc. They can work everywhere and stay connected to the network even though away from their desks. With the growing volume of the data traffic and the larger area to cover, multiple access points are needed to deploy. And with the business expansion to multiple locations, the complication of multiple access point deployment and management across the locations becomes obvious.

Deployment of multiple access point devices in businesses requires a well managed design for easiness of the future maintenance and management. The more numbers of the devices to maintain and manage, the more complicated your task is as the network administrator. It is therefore, choosing the correct devices for your growing business is very essential. D-Link with its new product DAP-2555 is a full featured business class wireless access point you can consider for your small to medium business.

What this Product Does

The D-Link DAP-2555 is a wireless N dual band POE access point which is powered by the Cloud Command technology to allow you manage the devices easily from everywhere via the internet. With Cloud Command technology, you can manage, monitor, and configure the multiple DAP-2555 deployment in multiple locations from all over the world where the internet access is available. You can logon to your account in dlink.cloudcommand.com via your internet browser to add or remove user access rights, make any security changes or view graphical reports. With this Command Cloud technology, the complication of maintaining multiple access point devices in multiple locations was in the past.

The DAP-2555 supports dual band simultaneous technology for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz frequency bands. This will ensure that all mix wireless devices that work either in 2.4GHz or 5GHz can connect to the network. Installing the devices is easy and it supports Power over Ethernet to let you install the access point device in area where power outlet is not available yet such as in ceilings.

Advanced Security

Like other traditional wireless access points, the DAP-2555 POE wireless access point supports the WPA personal / Enterprise security encryption. But as an addition that makes this device different with the others, the device supports the Individual Device Authorization (IDA) which automatically identifies and secures each individual connected client on an individual basis.

Moreover, the DAP-2555 supports the two factor authentication a very secure authentication method. Two-factor authentication is a method of providing two independent identification methods for authentication, for example combination of your normal password plus the key value from the Token. Well, implementing a two-factor authentication is complicated especially when you deploy such a Token device with one time password. Typically enterprise-class businesses deploy this complex infrastructure as part of their security system for remote access authentication. Does your small business computer system support the two-factor authentication?

The other advanced security feature is that the DAP-2555 supports firewalled guest network. You can create security boundary for your guests with limitation access in order not to compromise your private network.With these advanced security features, the DAP-2555 is ideal solution for medium to enterprise class business networks which have multiple sites and have implemented two-factor authentication system for their remote access users. With the price three times as much as the price of the DAP-2553 (the draft 802.11n version), if you dont utilize the full feature of this DAP-2555 device, or you only have one small office, I think you should choose the DAP-2553 for money-value device. For small offices, DAP-2553 is ideal solution with multiple operation modes including Access point, WDS, Bridge, and Wireless client. But with DAP-2555, you can only have one operation mode: Access Point mode but it has all the full features for business class networks for easy management an d strong advanced security features.

By Ki Grinsing

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