D-Link Access Point Serves Small and Medium Businesses

Those who thought D-Link was done with its string of releases, for now, were wrong, as the company again issued a press release, one that might interest prospective customers from businesses and hospitality environments.

Those who like to stay informed about what is happening on the enterprise market may or may not have learned about the D-Link DSN-4100 and DSN-4200 xStack Storage iSCSI SAN arrays.

It turns out that those items were just one part of the company's recent offer, as another announcement deals with something a little different.

More specifically, D-Link has prepared the DAP-2565 AirPremier N Dual Band PoE Access Point, designed for above-ceiling airspace applications (indoor plenum deployment).

It offers business-grade features (flexible IEEE 802.11n performance, Power Over Ethernet (PoE) support) at a low cost.

“Flexible” here means that one can select a performance of up to 300 Mbps, thanks to the dual band 2.4/5GHz support.

The item is even made with a Plenum-Rated Chassis powered by CloudCommand and should be easy to install in areas where power outlets are less than easy to find.

"Purchasing and managing a secure enterprise-class Cloud solution can often be a daunting task for small and medium-sized businesses due to limited IT resources," said Joe Melfi, product manager, Cloud Business Solutions, D-Link Systems, Inc.

"However, the DAP-2565 Access Point, along with D-Link's entire family of Cloud-Managed solutions, meets the needs of these small business environments, offering unsurpassed performance, robust security and central management capabilities at an affordable price."

Supposedly already on sale in the US, the DAP-2565 has a price of $615.99 (449 Euro) with a one-year Cloud Service subscription (can be renewed for $99,99/72.99 Euro).

Finally, it should probably be noted that the access point comes with CloudCommand, which lets value-added resellers (VARs) and end users, as well as managed service providers (MSPs), quickly and easily set up high-performance wireless networks, as well as remotely manage them.