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Cisco Confidential Centralization - not a new idea Original cellular networks were nodal. Lots of call drops Lots of administration roaming wasn't very good not capable of providing advanced services Session Number Presentation_ID (c) 2005 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Cisco Unified Wireless Network Architecture: Essam Abdelaal Systems Engineer Cisco Systems, UAE

Cisco Confidential Centralization - not a new idea Original cellular networks were nodal. Lots of call drops Lots of administration roaming wasn't very good not capable of providing advanced services Session Number Presentation_ID (c) 2005 Cisco Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Cisco Unified Wireless Network Architecture

Essam Abdelaal Systems Engineer Cisco Systems, UAE

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Gaining Perspective

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Centralization not a new idea


Original cellular networks were nodal. Lots of call drops Lots of administration Roaming wasnt very good Not capable of providing advanced services

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Enter the Base Station Controller


Complete view of the network Improved roaming One point of administration

Enabled provisioning of advanced services

Management/Control
Base stations are used to handle call setup, handovers, and other functions across an entire cellular network.
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Enter The Controller


DHCP DNS RADIUS ACS HPOV

LWAPP

Control and Management

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What does LWAPP enable?


Zero-touch AP deployment
Centralized RF management Fast roaming between access points: CCKM, PKC, 802.1x, and other protocols Single point for administering many access points Centralization of security policies In the future: Interoperability!

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Cisco Centralized WLAN Solution Architecture


Cisco WCS Cisco WLAN Controller Security Policies QoS Policies RF Management Mobility Management
SNMP v3
IE Web browser

Cisco Wireless Location Appliance Switch/Routed Network

Lightweight Access Points

Remote RF interface MAC Layer Encryption Air monitoring


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Making the Network Resilient


N+1 Fault Tolerant Wireless Controllers

X
sw3 sw2

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sw1

Primary: sw3 Secondary: sw2 Tertiary: sw1

Primary: sw1 Secondary: sw2 Tertiary: sw3

Ciscos LWAPP Failover behavior and timers are configurable


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Reliable Connectivity Through Dynamic RF Management


RF channel 1 Dynamic Channel Assignment Dynamic Power Optimization RF channel 2 RF channel 3

RF Controller Software

Hardware Layer

Eliminate coverage holes Avoid interference/Improve performance Optimize coverage area Reduce hands on WLAN mgmt
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Centralization Delivers RF Reliability


Cisco WLAN Controller

Ethernet Switch

Cisco Aironet Access Points

Cisco Hardware Layer

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Better Network Performance


Dynamic Load Balancing
Solving Performance & Capacity problems in high density areas (e.g. conference rooms, cafeteria)

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Better Network Performance


Dynamic Load Sharing
Solving Performance & Capacity problems in high density areas (e.g. conference rooms, cafeteria)

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