The WS 5000 Wireless System is the latest innovation in Symbol's wireless solution set, delivering across-the-board gains in performance, enhanced security, system management, Quality of Service (QoS) and Class of Service (CoS) features, while dramatically reducing deployment, management, and technology upgrade costs associated with enterprise wireless network ownership. WS 5000 is the mobile connectivity industry's first system built on switched-wireless networking architecture. It dramatically reduces deployment, management and technology upgrade costs associated with enterprise wireless network ownership. WS 5000 is a full enterprise system designed to deliver advanced wireless networking services and application specific security to IEEE 802.11b (Wi-Fi), 802.11a, 802.11g and legacy Symbol Spectrum24® (802.11 and 802.11b) wireless networks and mobile systems.

The WS 5000 Wireless System is a single wireless networking system that tightly integrates to the wired-enterprise network core and delivers advanced wireless services and connectivity to the network edge. This single system delivers centralized intelligence, management and security at the networking switch layer. The Symbol approach is significantly more economical when compared to enterprise-class 802.11b and 802.11a (or dual mode) WLAN access points and provides an intelligent adoption path for new wireless standards.