Catalyst wireless controllers streamline the administration of wireless networks by centralizing the deployment and management of Wi-Fi APs, tuning Wi-Fi performance by mitigating the effects of RF interference, enhancing wireless availability with rapid zero-touch failover, and tightening security by detecting threats and filtering content based on user class and location.

Catalyst Wi-Fi Controller Consulting

Cisco's Prime Infrastructure platform combines the management of wired and Wi-Fi networks

Catalyst wireless controllers operate with Cisco's Prime Infrastructure architecture, which can support as many as Wi-Fi 18,000 Wi-Fi access points and 64,000 clients. Cisco Catalyst Wi-Fi controllers are available at price points and with features appropriate for environments from branch offices to enterprises and campuses. Catalyst 802.11ac wireless controllers and access points are designed to provide the same level of protection, performance and management ease that organizations expect in their wired networks. Catalyst wireless controller technology incorporates built-in mobility functions like VoIP, high-definition video, and safe access for guests. Cisco's Prime Infrastructure architecture allows organizations to build environments that seamlessly combine wired and Wi-Fi infrastructure into a centrally managed connectivity ecosystem that produces maximum business value.

Progent's Cisco-certified wireless consultants can assist you to assess the benefits of adopting Cisco wireless controllers to manage wireless networks of any scale. Progent can help you to support and debug your existing Wi-Fi network or help you plan and carry out an efficient transition from legacy Wi-Fi controllers to modern models.

Cisco Catalyst Wireless Controller Configuration Consultants

Modern Catalyst wireless controllers offer performance, capacity, and protection

Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi infrastructure consultants offer cost-effective remote consulting across the U.S. and Canada to help you to create and refine Wi-Fi solutions. Progent also offers onsite consulting in major metropolitan areas in the U.S. and in Toronto, Canada. In addition, Progent can provide economical remote and on-premises Wi-Fi site surveys to help your company to design and implement a wireless environment with efficient AP clustering to align with your specific office layout, building structure, client concentration, and application workloads.

Cisco Wave 2 802.11ac Wireless LAN Controllers
Cisco Wave 2 wireless controllers allow fast data exchange, provisioning, control, monitoring and debugging for Cisco wireless devices and services. Cisco has developed both physical and software-based Wi-Fi controllers for unified management of WiFi networks, but networks with a large number of Wi-Fi access points are better served by physical Wi-Fi controllers. Wave 2 Wi-Fi controller devices from Cisco offer significant advantages in comparison to Wave 1 and earlier products such as higher throughput, concurrent support for 1G and 10G Ethernet, improved application visibility and control (AVC), and advanced, built-in security.

Cisco 3504 Wireless Controller Integration ConsultingThe Cisco 3504 WiFi Controller is a value-priced device available in a desktop form factor and intended for smaller businesses. You can use the 3504 model in a centralized WLAN architecture such as in lean branch and home-based offices managed across the WAN via FlexConnect, or in mesh installations where Ethernet cabling is limited. The 3504 wireless controller supports up to 150 WiFi access points and 3,000 client users, offers 4 Gbps performance, and supports up to 4,096 VLANs. Cisco's 3504 controller includes a multi-gigabit Ethernet port (up to 5 Gigabit Ethernet) and four 1-GB Ethernet interfaces. Access points can be attached directly to the WiFi controller through two PoE ports. The 3504 Wi-Fi controller offers fast failover for access points and users, which allows high availability for apps. As with other current Wave 2 Wi-Fi controllers available from Cisco, the 3504 model has the integrated ability to work with Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Cisco Mobility Services, and Cisco 5520 and 8540 WiFi controllers.

Cisco 5520 Wi-Fi Controller Integration ConsultantsCisco's 5520 Wireless Controller, offered in a 1 rack unit (RU) package, is intended for midsize to large enterprises and campus networks and can be run in centralized, distributed, and mesh deployments. The 5520 wireless controller supports as many as 1,500 access points and 20,000 clients, offers 20 Gbps performance, and supports up to 4,096 VLANs. The 5520 wireless controller includes two 10 GE ports and features solid-state storage, redundant fans, optional backup power supplies, and subsecond failover for uninterrupted availability.

Cisco 8540 Wi-Fi Controller Configuration ConsultantsThe Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller, available in a 2 rack unit form factor, is a high-end wireless controller intended to support enterprises, service providers, and large campus environments. The 8540 Wireless controller can be run in centralized, distributed, and mesh deployments and supports as many as 6,000 wireless APs and 64,000 client users. The 8540 WiFi controller can deliver throughput as high as 40 Gbps and supports 4,096 VLANs. The 8340 includes four 1-GB or 10GE interfaces and features solid-state storage, backup power supplies, backup fans, and subsecond failover.

Wave 1 Cisco WiFi LAN Controllers
Wireless LAN Controllers Configuration and Support ConsultingCisco wireless controllers cut the time and cost required to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot wireless networks by centralizing control of tasks like provisioning access points, enforcing single-point policies across wired/wireless networks, supporting enterprise-wide Quality of Service for voice and video, tracking and optimizing network performance, implementing wireless intrusion prevention system (wIPS) tools to guard against unauthorized access and Distributed Denial of Service threats, and managing IPv6 and dual-stack clients. Cisco has designed wireless network controllers for businesses of all sizes and offers desktop or rackmount appliances, modular plug-in controllers for Cisco ISR routers and switches, and switches with built-in wireless controllers.

Cisco Wireless Network Controller Module Online Consulting ServicesCisco's Wave 1 WiFi LAN controllers include Cisco CleanAir tools to avoid signal interference and create self-optimizing wireless networks for top 802.11n and 802.11ac performance and security. Built-in Bonjour Gateways allow discovery, advertisement and policy across WLAN, LAN and WAN for Apple-based applications. For fault tolerance, Cisco wireless LAN controllers allow access point and client stateful failover by permitting a backup HA wireless controller to synchronize with a main controller for access point license tabulation, CAPWAP state and roaming keys, and access point CAPWAP state. In case the main controller stops working, thousands of access points and wireless clients can switchover in less than a second to the backup wireless LAN controller.

Cisco's Wireless Controller Module for ISR G2 Routers with UCS-E provides entry-level 802.11n and 802.11ac support for Cisco 2900 and 3900 Series routers deployed by smaller organizations and branches. This value-priced and expandable module can handle up to 200 access points and up to 6000 clients. (For information about Progent's remote and onsite consulting support for Cisco routers, refer to Cisco router deployment and troubleshooting services.)

Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series are 1RU switches designed for small to mid-size businesses and satellite offices and features a built-in wireless controller with the ability to support 40 Gb of wireless throughput for each switch and 25 access points and 1000 wireless clients on each switch. Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series are 1RU switches designed for mid-size and large organizations and feature an integrated wireless LAN controller supporting up to 40 Gb of wireless throughput on each switch and the ability to handle 50 APs and up to 2000 clients. The Wireless Services Module2 is an add-in blade for Catalyst 6500 Series switches with a built-in wireless LAN controller intended for mid-to-large size enterprises and capable of 20 Gbps performance and with support for 1000 wireless access points and up to 15,000 wireless clients. (To find out about Progent's online and onsite consulting support for Catalyst switches, see Cisco Catalyst switches deployment and troubleshooting services.)

Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controllers are entry-level desktop devices that simplify the deployment and management of wireless LANs for SMBs and satellite offices. The 2500 Series wireless controller supports 5 to 75 access points and up to 1000 wireless clients and can deliver sustained data rates of up to 1 Gbps.

Cisco Wireless Controllers Online ConsultingCisco's 5500 Wireless Controller is a scalable 1RU appliance designed for mid-to-large sized enterprises and campus environments and can manage 500 APs and 7,000 wireless clients while providing 8 Gbps performance. The Cisco 5760 Wireless Controller is a 1RU device designed for mid-to-large campuses with the ability to manage 1000 APs and 12,000 clients and offering performance of 60 Gbps to handle high wireless client densities and high usage of media-rich mobile applications.

Cisco's Flex 7500 Series Wireless Controller is intended to enable centralized management of massive collections of wireless remote sites from one location, eliminating the costs of a Wi-Fi controller at each remote site. The 1RU Flex 7500 allows you to build a private cloud to deploy, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot as many as 6000 wireless access points and 64,000 wireless clients while handling 1 Gbps throughput. Cisco's 8500 Wireless Controller is a 1RU rackmount device designed to manage wireless networks for very large campuses or for service providers and can scale to handle 6000 access points and up to 64,000 clients while offering 10 Gbps performance.

Legacy Cisco WLAN Controllers
Cisco WLAN Controllers Consulting ServicesCisco Wireless Network Controllers centralize the management of wireless networks by streamlining the control of common technologies such as integrated intrusion prevention system (IPS), fast RF control, zero touch configuration, and N+1 redundancy. These controllers work with lightweight APs to deliver enhanced performance and high-end management functions.

WLAN Controllers (WLCs) offer the manageability, expandability, security, and dependability that IT managers need to create secure, enterprise-scale wireless networks, from branch locations to small businesses to headquarter campuses. Cisco's legacy Wireless Controllers can be clustered to provide support for up to 2400 WAPs for each roaming domain.

The Cisco WLCM or WLCM-E Wireless LAN Controller Module for Integrated Services (IS) Routers offers small-to mid-size businesses and large corporations a cost effective solution to implement and control secure WLANs at branch locations. These products supervise up to twelve Cisco Aironet APs and are supported on Cisco 2800/3800 Series IS Routers and Cisco 3700 Series IS Routers. (To find out concerning Progent's online and onsite support for Cisco routers, refer to Cisco router configuration and troubleshooting support.)

How Progent's Consultants Can Assist You with Catalyst Wi-Fi Controllers
Progent can provide access to a Cisco-certified consultant to assist your business to plan, deploy, maintain and repair a converged wired and wireless infrastructure integrating a wide range of wireless devices that offer the identical security, expandability, and manageability you expect from your wired network. Progent can help you to manage early-generation wireless solutions from Cisco or upgrade efficiently to current 802.11ac Wi-Fi technology. Progent's CISA and ISSAP security consultants can advise you about how to design protection into your wireless network and your business processes. Progent's disaster recovery planning consultants and business continuity planners can show you how to configure the HA features built into Cisco's wireless and wired technologies so your converged infrastructure provides significant return on investment.

Progent's Wireless Site Survey assists you to plan and implement a robust wireless network customized for your facilities, offering a Wi-Fi ecosystem that provides seamless coverage, high performance and density, Quality of Service to support IP voice and video, enterprise-class security and compliance, and easy management. Progent's Wi-Fi Site Survey can be delivered online to reduce time and expense, or onsite for more challenging facilities.

For a more in-depth look at Progent's wireless integration services, visit Progent's Wireless LAN Expertise.

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