Although the Draft 2.0 standards are still at least a year away from final adoption, Cisco said it is moving ahead since chip makers and laptop companies are already building the standard into new PCs and other wireless devices.

The 802.11n Draft 2.0 joint interoperability testing was conducted with Intel at the Intel Oregon testing facility, which is set up to simulate a typical enterprise environment. Cisco said its experience in radio-frequency communications allows the company to deliver a fivefold increase in throughput and MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) technology.

"802.11n is being looked at by businesses of all sizes and it's being looked at as the first new standard for overall robustness," said Ben Gibson, director of Cisco's mobility solutions, in San Jose, Calif. "It will allow the enterprise to embrace wireless more fully."

Cisco's next-generation Unified Wireless Network will include the modular Aironet 1250 Series access point, as well as the 48G-bps scalable Cisco Catalyst 6500-based WLAN controller system, and wired and wireless services with the Unified Wireless Network Release 4.2.

In addition, Cisco will also deliver, through its Catalyst switches, the ability to fully power the dual-radio Aironet 1250 Series from a single Ethernet port.

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