Colubris MultiService Access Points (MAPs) bring intelligence to the edge of wireless LANs, delivering seamless mobility and strong security while minimizing operational costs. In addition to delivering a rich set of network services to 802.11 WLAN client devices, Colubris MAPs provide the industry's most comprehensive feature set among enterprise-class access points.

When deployed as part of a Colubris Intelligent Mobility System, they create a centrally managed multiservice WLAN infrastructure with seamless roaming between MAPs and the ability to establish Virtual Service Communities (VSCs)—discrete groups of network users with assigned service policies tuned to meet their shared application and service needs. Colubris MAPs are unique in that they offer the industry's highest degree of flexibility and configurability while also offering unprecedented ease of deployment and management. Colubris access points support a plug-and-play "controlled" mode in which they can automatically be discovered and configured by a central MultiService Controller (MSC). The MSC provides a central point to manage the MAPs and ensures that configurations and software versions are synchronized across the entire WLAN.

Colubris MAPs are designed to satisfy the most demanding enterprise and service provider applications. They enhance performance and safeguard confidential network traffic by enforcing security and QoS policies at the boundary between WLANs and wired networks. They apply policies that are centrally defined, leveraging existing authentication and authorization servers for ease of administration. A rich set of management interfaces lets network administrators centrally manage MAPs using the Colubris Network Management System (NMS) or any standards-based network management system. MAPs ensure consistent client coverage by automatically adjusting the RF configuration whenever they detect local sources of interference, and a self-healing feature automatically adjusts to changes in the RF environment.

With Colubris MAPs, organizations have unmatched flexibility to configure their WLANs to suit their needs and their environments. Dual radio models combine access point and RF sensor functions to provide high performance WLAN client access without compromising RF security. All access point models can be configured to operate in wireless distribution system mode, providing a convenient method for adding wireless coverage to areas where an Ethernet connection is unavailable. The dual radio access points take flexibility one step further by supporting configurability on a per-radio basis, making them the most versatile access points in the industry.