D-Link 2014 Annual Report Download - page 8

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D-Link is focused on providing small to medium-sized businesses with a full range of hardware and software featuring total technology integration and superior scalability, allowing these enterprises to grow their networks as needed, without redundancy or reinvestment. And because our solutions are truly end-to-end, businesses need only deal with one vendor. From an accountability perspective, this offers a tremendous benefit to them. D-Link has met the demand created by the “bring your own device” (BYOD) trend with unified wireless solutions for SMBs. Controller and coordinated AP wireless solutions continued to grow in 2014, with market revenue forecast to hit 6.1 billion dollars by 2017. D-Link’s offerings for the medium-sized enterprise unified wireless market include the DWL-8610AP, D-Link’s first managed 11AC access point, and the DWC- 2000 controller, which supports 64 to 256 access points per controller. The latter has the ability to cluster access points from a maximum of 4 wireless controllers with up to 1,024 APs per cluster group. This setup simplifies deployment, administration, and security while boosting flexibility, improving performance, and cutting costs. Smaller businesses, meanwhile, can turn to the DWL-6610AP or the DWC-1000, which offer similar functionality on a smaller scale. Another option for businesses looking for ways to efficiently manage their networks is to use our Central Wi-Fi Manager (CWM), an innovative new tool designed to help network administrators streamline their wireless access point management workflow via a centralized server. Many of the
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