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High Toll for Wireless Bridge: Page 4 of 4

Broad Range, High Price

Cisco's solution combines strong performance, ease of setup, and a hardware bundle that gives you everything you need to get up and running, but the device is costly. At $4,999 for each integrated antenna bridge, the 1400 is double the price of competing devices--such as Proxim's QuickBridge 20--and wireless VARs can construct FCC-certified 802.11a-based bridging solutions for even less. The Aironet 1400's key values lie in its potential range and its IOS operating system, which provides significantly greater functionality and manageability than many devices on the market.

Joel Conover, a former senior technology editor of Network Computing, is a principal analyst at tactical competitive response solutions firm Current Analysis. Write to him at [email protected].

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