Fusion 50 access point

Fusion 50 managed Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) work in conjunction with the Fusion 300 Wireless LAN Controller to provide simple, Wi-Fi® Certified secure voice and data 802.11b/g for businesses up to 250 users.

EasyPoint™ Plug-and-Play Configuration & RF Management

With EasyPoint™, Fusion 50 APs are simple to deploy and manage. The configuration process is handled by the Fusion 300 WLAN Controller, and is completely automated. Just plug your Fusion 50 into your LAN, and within a few seconds you'll have safe, secure Wi-Fi® access, as well as integrated intrusion detection and prevention.

What's more, seemingly challenging tasks, like channel management and dealing with the complexities of the RF environment — from neighboring business networks to the microwave oven in the kitchen — are handled automatically by EasyPoint™. There's no need for expensive RF planning tools or site surveys. Simply distribute your Fusion 50s around the office, and they, with the intelligence of a Fusion 300 behind them, take care of the rest.

Product Highlights

Data Security

The number one concern of IT administrators, when it comes to the question of deploying Wi-Fi® is security. U4EA's Fusion 50 APs are Wi-Fi Certified for WPA2, so your data is fully secured with 256 bit AES/CCMP encryption.

User Authentication

But securing your data is only one piece of the puzzle. The Fusion 50 not only supports WPA2 with pre-shared keys — a password to encrypt your data — but also with WPA2-Enterprise, ensuring that each user is individually authenticated, and removing the need to change passwords for everyone each time you need to change or remove a password for an individual.

If you already have an authentication database in place, either RADIUS or Microsoft's Active Directory, then users can be authenticated against that. However, we also provide a RADIUS server on the Fusion 300, so clients connecting to Fusion 50 APs can use WPA2-Enterprise, even if you don't have a previously deployed authentication scheme — ensuring the highest level of integrity for your wireless network.

But since not all clients — in particular, some smart phones and other hand-held devices — support WPA2-Enterprise, we take things a step farther. The Fusion 50 supports seperate VLANs per security suite. So, you can have your corporate network entirely secure with WPA2-Enterprise, but still allow WPA2-PSK (or even less secure encryption and authentication schemes such as WPA and WEP), completely segregating that traffic on its own VLAN that doesn't have access to critical corporate infrastructure.

Virtual APs & Guest Access

One common case where you may want to use this VLAN segregation capability to ensure the privacy and integrity of your corporate infrastructure is guest access. With the Fusion 50, guest traffic can be put on its own VLAN, and sent directly to the outbound router without exposure to the corporate network. And with the Fusion 300's captive portal capability, you can even have guests click through a terms-of-use screen, or even enter a password, before they're given access to the network.

While VLANs take care of segregating traffic on the wired side of the Fusion 50, you may also want to segregate traffic on the wireless side. The Fusion 50 enables this with its Virtual AP capability. Each Fusion 50 is capable of advertising up to 8 different WLAN networks, or BSSes. For example, you could have one network advertized as "MyCompany" and another advertized as "MyCompany-Guest". With up to 8 WLAN networks, you could even have a separate one per department. And of course, all of this is managed by the Fusion 300 WLAN Controller, so you can pick and choose which networks are advertized from which Fusion 50 on a case-by-case basis, all managed from a single location. Perhaps you want every Fusion 50 to advertize the "MyCompany" network, but only want the Fusion 50 located in the back office to advertize "MyCompany-Finance".

Intrusion Detection and Prevention

Of course, ensuring that your trusted users have proper data encryption and user authentication is only half of the security problem. The other half is making sure that your approved wireless network is the only wireless way onto your corporate infrastructure.

In addition to providing wireless access to your network, each Fusion 50 is capable of acting as a wireless intrusion detection device, scanning the RF spectrum to detect unauthorized APs within your network — whether placed there my a malicious outsider, or a naive employee. And when an unauthorized AP is detected, all of the U4EA APs which see it (either Fusion 50s or Fusion 70s) are capable of launching a targeted assault against it, ensuring that no one can use it to get onto your network while the IT administrator goes to remove it.

CompleteMobility™ Express

We've already mentioned EasyPoint™'s plug-and-play capability for deploying your Fusion 50s and managing the RF spectrum automatically, but what about all of these security feature's we've been discussing? EasyPoint™ is just one feature of CompleteMobility™ Express — the software that powers your Fusion 300 WLAN controller. All of these features, and many more, are easily managed through CompleteMobility's intuitive, web-based user interface.

But while we think you'll use CompleteMobility's graphical interface for almost all of your tasks, we also recognize that business IT managers sometimes want to get a little more into the details of things. That's why CompleteMobility provides both a comprehensive command-line interface, as well as full configuration support via SNMP.

Clarion™ Voice Support with Fast Roaming

As the name implies, CompleteMobility™ is all about mobility, and while today that might mean data access for your laptop, we want to ensure that the Fusion 50 meets your mobility needs well into the future. That's why each Fusion 50 comes equiped with Clarion™ Voice support — providing toll-quality voice for up to 12 simultaneous phone calls in 802.11b or 30 in 802.11g.

Fusion 50 APs are Wi-Fi® Certified for WMM — wireless multi-media support — but Clarion™ takes things well beyond the standard. In addition to WMM, the Fusion 50s support SpectraLink Voice Protocol (SVP), for integration with industy-leading Polycom wireless phones, as well as a dedicated voice capability for other telephony devices outside the scope of WMM and SVP.

Finally, CompleteMobility™ manages your voice clients as they roam from one Fusion 50 to another (or even to a Fusion 70), enabling roaming in less than 50 milliseconds — fast enough that it's indetectable to the human ear, so your call is free from interruption.

In conjunction with a Fusion 300 running CompleteMobility™ Express, your Fusion 50 AP will meet your needs both today, and well into the future.