Get high resiliency and maximum scalability. These controllers support small, medium or large wireless network deployments with flexible deployment models, including new virtualization options. Choose the best wireless LAN controller for you. A component of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network™, the 8500 Series Controller provides real—time, centralized communications between Cisco Aironet™ Access Points, the Cisco Prime Infrastructure™, and the Cisco Mobility Services Engine™. The industry’s largest scalability in a single rack—unit space (1RU); a centralized touch point for up to 6000 access points, 64,000 clients, and 6000 branch locations. High speed with 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity support; Two 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for redundancy. High Availability with sub—second access point and client stageful failover. High resiliency with redundant dual power supplies. The flexibility to centrally configure wireless policy, management, or security settings on remote access points through centralized provisioning and management. Wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS) capabilities. Centrally defined policy enforcement across wired and wireless networks and integration with Cisco™ ISE.

Support for advanced mobility technologies, including Cisco CleanAir™, Cisco ClientLink™ 2.0, Cisco VideoStream™, Cisco FlexConnect™, Mesh, and OfficeExtend™ technologies. View the wireless controllers portfolio At—a—Glance to see how Cisco™ offers a wide array of controllers that can support wireless functions in organizations of all sizes, from branch offices to small and medium business to large campus and service provider environments. Cloud networking architecture an integrated networking platform built for management. Cloud Networking provides centralized management, visibility, and control without the cost and complexity of controller appliances or overlay management software. Cisco Meraki™ products are built from the ground up for cloud management, and come out of the box with centralized management, layer 7 device and application visibility, real—time web—based diagnostics, monitoring, reporting, and much, much more. Cisco Meraki™ deploys quickly and easily, without training or proprietary command line interfaces. Cisco Meraki™’s™ founders invented Cloud Networking while working as graduate students at M.I.T. Cisco Meraki™ now has a complete line of cloud networking products that power over 20,000 customer networks, including massive global deployments with tens of thousands of devices.

Cisco Wireless Controllers

Wireless Indoor Access Points