With worries over AI, a hyper-competitive job market, and rising costs on every horizon, the SMB landscape has never been trickier to navigate. With hybrid working now a popular choice for many firms, having the right technology to keep your workforce connected, allowing them to react and respond quickly, even if split across different locations, is vital.
The ASUS ExpertWiFi range is designed with business users in mind, offering superb reliability and speed that will make sure you can always rely on your network.
Flexibility
For starters, you need a solution that allows you a range of actions and options when it comes to staying connected.
The ASUS ExpertWiFi EBG19P PoE+ Wired VPN Router doesn’t just give your workplace reliable and speedy connections, but also allows you to keep an eye on who is accessing your network, and what content they are interacting with, as well as Multi-WAN capability for load balancing and failover, allowing for more resilient business continuity.
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) support from the ASUS ExpertWifi EBA63 PoE Access point also make it much simpler for your business to set up its networking and security hardware, even if your office space is limited, covering your entire workplace with high-performance wireless connectivity.
Scalability
Along with a flexible network, having the opportunity to scale your hardware as your business grows is also paramount.
The ASUS ExpertWiFi series is designed so that you can mix and match different products on a single network. This means that if you need to expand or boost your connections, say if you’re expanding office space or even opening new offices, you can just plug in, connect and go with products such as the ASUS ExpertWiFi EBA63 Access Point, which offers greater coverage of your network via either PoE or DC power supply
It also utilises AiMesh technology which ensures a reliable and solid connection even across an office full of connected devices via its congestion-busting technology. Your business can even combine up to 12 ExpertWiFi EBA63 access points to build a mesh WiFi network that grows with your business, with each access point offering up to 2400 square feet of coverage, whilst also supporting ASUS AiMesh compatible routers to give extra network reach.
VLAN and Self-Defined Network (SDN)
Keeping your business secure when connecting all these new devices is another critical concern, but the ASUS ExpertWiFi series offers integrated VLAN and Self-Defined Network (SDN) functionality to ensure protection at all levels.
Having SDN allows companies to create up to five distinct SSIDs across their wireless network, meaning certain devices can be separated into different networks depending on their function or owners, such as a guest network for visitors to the office, boosting visibility and security across the board. This security can also be boosted further with support for VLAN across each Ethernet port on the ExpertWiFi router and switch devices
Site-to-Site VPN (home to brand office)
As your business grows, it’s likely that your workers will increasingly be out and about, heading to meetings, trade shows, or enjoying the benefits of hybrid working. Making sure they still have access to all your most important internal files and documents is vital though, and utilising the ExpertWiFi series allows for unmatched VPN connectivity to do just that.
With support for multiple VPN protocols such as IPSec, Open VPN, PPTP and WireGuard, as well as a built-in VPN client, the Expert WiFi EBG19P, Expert WiFi EBG15 lets your workers stay connected wherever they are, whilst allowing employees or colleagues access to your internal network, even if they aren't in the building.
Commercial Grade Security
With security top of mind for businesses of all sizes, the ExpertWiFi series provides high-end network security alongside the latest WPA3 security protocol, and tools such as ASUS Safe Browsing to block malicious websites and other unwanted content or traffic.
Thanks to its partnership with the experts at Trend Micro, the ExpertWiFi series provides high-end network security through AiProtection Pro, which offers not just protection from the latest threats, but cloud data centers to make sure all your key files stay safe from intruders. Users will also receive anti-malware and web content filtering, a two-way intrusion prevention system, and free automatic security updates, all at no extra cost.
Simple to customise
Once your network is established, tweaking and customizing it to support your needs is the next step, allowing you to sculpt your connection just how you like it.
ASUS’ system is supported by the company's ExpertWiFi app, which offers a host of features designed with businesses in mind, and allowing for simple set up of multiple networks that can be allocated to different departments or groups of users within your organization, or creating a guest network for visitors or customers in public venues such as cafes, hotels or offices, as well as a ‘guest portal’ to help promote your business customers using your public Wi-Fi.
PoE
Finally, having control over your networks is vital, and nowhere is this more obvious than with the ASUS ExpertWiFi PoE devices we’ve mentioned above.
Utilising PoE makes installation a breeze, replacing forests of cables with one simple Ethernet connection, which also helps cut down on maintenance and admin costs. But the technology is also highly reliable, and can quickly scale up or down as your business demands, meaning you have the final say in how your network performs.
So if you're ready to take your business connectivity to the next level and unlock productivity and efficiency like never before, you can view the entire ASUS ExpertWiFi range here.
Also view our 5* review of the Asus ExpertWiFi (EBM68) Mesh Wi-Fi System.
