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Cisco has introduced new intelligent, secure, and assured wireless innovations, with smart Wi-Fi 7 access points and unified subscription licensing that can enable smart spaces out-of-the-box. These innovations empower customers to solve their connectivity, security, and assurance challenges while also providing a flexible foundation to future-proof their workplaces.
Wireless technologies have reshaped the world, from how and where work gets done to how people shop and learn. Today, wireless innovations continue to blur the lines between physical and digital spaces, enabling organisations to transform their workspaces and create new digital experiences for an AI-driven era. While Wi-Fi 7 unlocks essential performance upgrades, a retailer reimagining the shopping experience, a manufacturer optimising operations with precision asset tracking, or a hospital enhancing patient care all need more than just connectivity. They need an intelligent, secure, and assured platform.
“Just about everything we do blends human behaviour with sensors, cameras, or screens—physical experiences in an increasingly digital world. And Wi-Fi is at the centre of it all,” said Jeetu Patel, Cisco chief product officer. “With Cisco Wi-Fi 7 access points and Cisco Spaces, we are delivering the connectivity, assurance, and data that IT, real estate, and facilities teams need to reimagine employee and customer experiences everywhere.”
The access points bring the latest wireless standard to customers everywhere. They are manageable on-premises or through the cloud, with the ability to switch seamlessly between both. This flexibility is enabled through Cisco’s unified networking subscription – a single licence that covers Cisco’s entire Wi-Fi 7 solution. This new Cisco Networking Subscription simplifies how customers do business with Cisco and allows organisations to confidently invest in wireless networks that can grow and evolve with their business.
The role of wireless is growing, as organisations rely on technology to enable their workforce and create differentiated experiences for their end customers. Cisco’s Wi-Fi 7-powered innovations provide customers with a smart, scalable, and experience-driven approach. Cisco’s offering is:
Intelligent: Cisco’s new Wi-Fi 7 access points deliver one of the industry’s most intelligent wireless offerings, featuring AI-native performance optimisations and out-of-the-box self-configuration. The access points are global use and can auto-detect location as soon as they are plugged in. With access to the Cisco Spaces platform now included in the subscription licence, customers get an operating system to turn their workspaces into smart spaces.
Secure: Powered by some of the industry’s most advanced threat detection capabilities, Cisco secures every connection with AI-native device profiling, threat prevention, and advanced wireless security and data encryption.
Assured: With Cisco ThousandEyes, customers can assure every connected experience using AI and automation to identify and remediate performance bottlenecks across wireless, owned, and unowned networks – unlocking the ability to deliver exceptional digital experiences to every user, wherever they are.
The Cisco Wi-Fi 7 access points are available to order in November 2024 and will ship in December 2024.
