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Wireless Controllers Product Image Virtual Controller Controller for ISR G2 2500 Series 3650 Series 5500 Series 5760 Series 3850 Series WiSM2 Flex 7500 Series 8500 series

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Controllers

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Small or midsize business branch Virtual Machine Software

Small or midsize business branch ISR-G2UCS-E

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Small or midsized business branch 1RU Switch

Midsize to large enterprise 1RU appliance

Midsized to large enterprise 1RU appliance

Small to Large Enterprise 1RU switch

Midsized to Large Enterprise Catalyst 6500 Module

Large Number of Branches 1RU appliance

Large Enterprise and Service Provider 1RU appliance

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Deployment Modes FlexConnect (centrally switched) Central Mode (Formerly Local Mode) Mesh OfficeExtend Scale Min Access Points Max Access Points 5 200 3,000 5 200 3,000 5 75 1,000 1 25 1,000 12 500 7,000 25 1,000 12,000 1 50 2,000 100 1,000 15,000 300 6,000 64,000 300 6,000 64,000 Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Yes

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Max Client Support Max RF Tag Support Max Throughput Max Number of Access Point Groups Max Number of Flex Groups Max Access Points per Group Max WLANs Max VLANs 3,000 500 Mbps 500 500 Mbps 500 1 Gbps 1,000 20 Gbps and 40 Gbps 5,000 8 Gbps 10,000 60 Gbps 1,000 20 Gbps and 40 Gbps 5,000 20 Gbps 50,000 1 Gbps 50,000 10 Gbps

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PLATFORM DETAILS Interfaces or network I/O 2 vNICs Cisco ISR G2 backplane Four 1 GE 4 * 1 Gb / 10 Gb Uplink 2 * 1 Gb / 10 Gb Uplink 4 * 1 Gb Uplink 24 and 48 * 10/100/1000 Mbps Data/POE+ Yes (option) Yes 350W E-LLW Eight 1 GE 6 * 1/10 GE 4 * 1 GE/10 GE uplink 2 * 1 GE/10 GE uplink 4 * 1 GE uplink 24 and 48* 10/100/1000 Mbps data / PoE+ Catalyst 6500 backplane Two 10 GE Two 10 GE

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Workgroup bridge Link Aggregation Group (LAG) Radio Resource Management (RRM) Datagram Transfer Layer Security (DTLS) Cisco Compatible Extensions Call Admission Control (CAC)/Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) Cisco VideoStream Guest services (wireless) Guest services (wired) Guest anchor Access control lists (ACLs) HA with AP SSO HA with Client SSO Integrated Wireless Policy Engine Application Visibility and

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Control (AVC) Bonjour Gateway Mobility QoS Bi-directional rate limiting Yes** L2 Yes Yes Yes** L2 Yes Yes Yes** L2 & L3 Yes Yes Yes L2 & L3 Yes (MQCbased) No Yes** L2 & L3 Yes Yes Yes L2 & L3 Yes (MQC based) No Yes L2 & L3 Yes (MQC based) No Yes** L2 & L3 Yes Yes Yes** L2 Yes Yes Yes** L2 & L3 Yes Yes

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** Denotes supported in 'Central Mode' and 'FlexConnect' ('Centrally Switched') mode of deployments ***Supports application visibility (no control) with Generation-2 access points for wireless clients only

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