SMB Businesses Networking Solutions Overview

The main elements of the networking scheme for small and medium-sized enterprises are local area networks, wide area network connections, network management and security. Cisco's solutions take these elements into full consideration.

In general, these solutions have the following common characteristics:

● It adopts a high-performance, full-switching solution to fully meet user needs.

● Simple network management.

● Bandwidth compression technology, effectively reduce WAN link traffic.

● With the development of the company's business, all network equipment can continue to be used after upgrading the original network, effectively realizing investment protection.

● The system is safe and highly confidential, and a low-cost network security solution suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises is applied - the built-in IOS software firewall of the router.

Small and midsize enterprise network solutions are applied in the following aspects:

● Resource sharing - Each desktop user in the network can share the database, share the printer, and realize various functions in the office automation system.

● Communication services - End users can send and receive emails, implement Web applications, access the Internet, and secure WAN access through a WAN connection.

● Multimedia application - This solution supports multimedia multicasting and has excellent service quality assurance.

● Remote access - In some solutions, the system supports remote access, which can achieve up to 32 remote analog telephone lines for dial-up access.

Typical Small Business Networking Solutions

Cisco offers simple, flexible, and secure networking solution for all small and midsize businesses. Networking solutions for SMB businesses can keep your employees connected and productive wherever they are.

Router-switch.com wants to take a set of network solutions within 50 people as an example, such as what kind of switches, routers, controllers, APs, port rates, bandwidth, speed, etc. are needed.

Networking solution within 50 employees

Switch

C9200L-48P-4G-E

Catalyst 9200L48-port PoE+ 4x1G uplink Switch, Network Essentials

Features:

● IOS: Network Essentials

● Stacking bandwidth: 80 Gbps

● Downlinks total 10/100/1000 or PoE+ copper ports: 48 ports full POE+

● Uplink configuration: 4x 1G fixed uplinks

● Switching capacity: 104 Gbps

● Forwarding rate: 154.76 Mpps

Router

ISR4221/K9

35Mbps-75Mbps system throughput, 2 WAN/LAN ports, 1 SFP port, multi-Core CPU,2 NIM

Features:

● Aggregate Throughput: 35 Mbps to 75 Mbps

● Total onboard WAN or LAN 10/100/1000 ports: 2

● RJ-45-based ports: 2

● SFP-based ports: 1

● NIM (Network Interface Modules) slots: 2

● Flash Memory: 8GB

WLAN Controller

AIR-CT3504-K9

Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller

Features:

● Throughput: 4 Gbps

● Number of APs supported: 150

● Number of clients supported: 3000

● Memory Options:
Control/Data Plane Memory—8GB DDR4
Boot Flash—8MB SPI NOR Serial Boot
Bulk Flash—32GB eMMC

● Redundancy, Service Ports: 2x 1G Cu

● Data Ports: 1x 5G/mGig Cu, 4x 1G Cu (2 ports 802.3at PSE)

Wireless APs

AIR-AP2802I-H-K9

Cisco 2800 Access Point AIR-AP2802I-H-K9 Dual-band, controller-based 802.11a/g/n/ac Wave 2 standard Intdoor AP, internal-Ant, AC-power, Reg. Domain-H

Features:

● 4x4 MU-MIMO with three spatial streams

● MRC

● 802.11ac Beamforming

● 20-, 40-, 80, 160-MHz channels

● PHY data rates up to 5.2 Gbps

● Packet aggregation: A-MPDU (Tx/Rx), A-MSDU (Tx/Rx)

● 802.11 DFS

● CSD support

Interfaces:

● 2 x 100/1000BASE-T autosensing (RJ-45)

● Management console port (RJ-45)

● USB 2.0 (enabled via future software)

The above is a network solution with 50 employees as an example. For this network solution within 50 users, the routers have built-in IOS firewalls to solve security problems. Hope it helps you!

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