News/Moxa released AWK-4131 Wireless AP/Bridge/client with IP68-rated housing and IEEE 802.11n support

As the Turkish distributor of Moxa, GSL is proud to announce that Moxa released the AWK-4131 Wireless AP/Bridge/Client with IP68-rated rugged housing. In addition to being suitable for extremely harsh environments, AWK-4131 supports the IEEE 802.11n standard, which points out a great potential for AWK-4131 to make a remarkable impact in the wireless industry.

In the recent years, demand for wireless LAN hardware has experienced phenomenal growth, evolving quickly from novelty into necessity. The growing pervasiveness of Wi-Fi is helping to extend the technology beyond the PC and into consumer electronics applications like Internet telephony, music streaming, gaming, and even photo viewing and in-home video transmission. Personal video recorders and other A/V storage appliances that collect content in one spot are accelerating this trend. Furthermore, dramatic technological improvements taking place in many different branches of industry, bring the need for faster connections and higher data throughput rates. These new uses, as well as the growing number of conventional WLAN users, increasingly combine to strain existing Wi-Fi networks. IEEE 802.11n, the most recent technology available for wireless connections, stands as more than just a solution for such necessities. Implementing the MIMO  (Multiple Input Multiple Output) technology, a radio-wave phenomenon called “multipath” is harnessed with a technique known as space-division multiplexing and the transmitting WLAN device actually splits a data stream into multiple parts, called spatial streams, and transmits each spatial stream through separate antennas to corresponding antennas on the receiving end. Increasing the number of spatial streams dramatically increases the raw data rate, up to 300 Mbps.

Moxa’s 802.11n supporting wireless AP/Bridge/client devices are also compatible with the previous standards, ensuring current investments would not be wasted away, on the contrary they could be considered as the initial step on the transition to the high standard wireless technology of the future.