Airespace
January 2005
If it wasn't the acquisition that thrust Cisco headlong into wireless LAN dominance, it certainly helped Cisco plug holes in its wireless product portfolio for midsized enterprises. Five years back, Airespace rose to popularity on the back of "thin" architectures, or, network intelligence centralized on a WLAN switch and combined with as few access points as possible. Cisco, until that point, had pushed the more traditional WLAN architecture of the intelligence being on the APs themselves, or so-called "fat" APs. With Cisco now the market leader in WLAN, it's tough to argue against Airespace has having worked out in its favor.
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