Cisco Edge 300 Series Switches

Manufacturer	Cisco

Product Overview

The Cisco Edge 300 Series is an all-in-one access platform for enterprise next-generation connected room deployments that provide network-connected and rich media-enabled environments. It integrates all the essential components of a digital connected room experience with Ethernet LAN access, wireless LAN access, rich media, and application computing. It is also an open application platform that allows application partners and service providers to customize it to enable vertical solutions. Comparing to the traditional in-room deployments with PCs and multiple access devices, the Cisco Edge 300 significantly lowers the customer total cost of ownership.

Features and Benefits

• Integrated wired LAN, wireless access point, rich media (HDMI, audio), USB, Bluetooth, and computing for all-in-one connectivity (Figure 2)

• High-definition video with hardware-based video decoding

• Wireless access security authentication

• Plug-and-play provisioning with Cisco Smart Operation

• Web-based configuration and management

• Open Linux environment for application development partners and service providers to develop and host vertical applications

• Management API for integration with third-party platform

• Compact, fanless design with low power consumption

Primary benefits of the Cisco Edge 300 Series:

• Consolidate and simplify connected room deployment into one device

• Save on hardware and software cost, license, support contract, and energy bills

• Simplified and user-friendly management with less device to deploy and plug-and-play provisioning and upgrade

• Customizable for vertical-specific application requirements

Consolidation at Connected Room Deployments

Today, organizations around the world are modernizing their IT infrastructure to promote better productivity, communication, and collaboration. As part of this effort, the workspaces and service environments, such as classrooms in schools, healthcare clinics, service halls of bank branches, and retail stores, are network connected with new digital experience. Typical requirements of these “connected room” deployments include:

• LAN connectivity to connect PCs and IP phones

• Wireless LAN connectivity

• Rich media support such as video (display and conferencing) and audio

• Vertical-specific devices, such as interactive digital whiteboards in classrooms, which can be connected on USB, Bluetooth, HDMI, audio, and so on

• Vertical-specific applications, such as teaching applications in schools, ticket applications at bank branch offices, and so on; these applications are often run in the service areas with content centrally managed in the cloud

• Efficient provisioning and flexible management

To meet these requirements, organizations today deploy and manage multiple in-room devices. Given that many of these sites are remote without any advanced IT expertise, the operation cost can be a big challenge.

The Cisco Edge 300 Series provides a simplified and cost-effective solution by consolidating the network, rich media interfaces, and application compute into a compact, centrally managed device (as shown in Figure 2). By doing this, it helps to significantly lower the total cost of ownership from organizations:

• Capital expenditure savings on hardware costs, hardware support contracts with reduced number of devices needed in the room, and software costs with Linux operating system

• Operating expenses savings on energy bills, onsite visits with less devices to manage, and plug-and-play provisioning and upgrade with Cisco Smart Operation

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