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PowerCloud Systems has released a cloud-based Wi-Fi solution that fills the gaps between residential products that lack management and features, and enterprise systems that can be overkill in smaller organizations.
PowerCloud Systems originally offered OEM cloud management to manufacturers of residential-class wireless routers. This strategy didn't work as well as it might - our testing of one of these a couple of years ago revealed a lack of good marketing and inadequate support on the part of vendors at the time, indicating that these OEMs really didn't understand the value of what they were selling.
PowerCloud then turned its attention to a more profitable direction, with both a more sophisticated set of features in the management console and a very capable 802.11n access point with a couple of very interesting features.
PowerCloud's Enable CAP324 AP is aimed at the smaller enterprise that, to this point, has had to make do with either residential-class products that lack both management and a business-oriented feature set, or enterprise-class wireless LANs that presented either too steep a learning curve or too high a bill.
The CAP324 is a very compact, dual-band unit with internal antennas; a 324X model has external antennas, and even an optional outdoor enclosure. Both radios are 2x2 802.11n (300Mbps), and can operate concurrently. Setup is easy:...