Motorola jacks up high-end 802.11n Wi-Fi controller capacity tenfold

The product refresh is intended to make large-scale, high-performance Wi-Fi networks more affordable and reliable. The new products incorporate Motorola's Wireless Then and there Generation 5 Wi-Fi software, which was released about six months ago, to push more intelligence to the edge of the wireless network.

The new NX 9000 Integrated Services Controller is designed for very large-scale WLAN networks, with up to 10,000 access points. Networks of this scale may include hundreds of retail and operations sites nationwide or even globally, each with relatively few access points. Motorola's previous high-end controller, the RFS 7000, handled just over 1,000 access points.