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WCS & LocationAppliance


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Cisco WCS

The Wireless Control System (WCS) enablesyou to configure and monitor one or more

controllers and associated access points.

WCS includes the same configuration,

performance monitoring, security, fault

management, and accounting options used at

the controller level and adds a graphical view

of multiple controllers and managed access

points.

Wireless Control System (WCS)


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Cisco Wireless Control System

Flexible and secure network management tool:

Intuitive GUI

Browser accessible via HTTPS

Device management via SNMP

(supports SNMPv1, SNMPv2, and SNMPv3)

Ease of system maintenance

Runs on Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms



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Cisco Wireless Control System

Three versions of Cisco WCS:

Cisco WCS Base Cisco WCS Location

Cisco WCS Plus



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Cisco WCS Base

Handles: Rogue access point detection

Ad hoc detection

Containment functions for rouge devices Map-based organization of access point RF

coverage areas

User-supplied campus, building, and floor

plan graphics

Wireless Control System (WCS) versions


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Cisco WCS Base

System-wide control of streamlined network,controller, and managed APs:

Configuration with customer-defined templates

Status and alarm monitoring

Full event logs Automatic channel and power level assignment

User-defined automatic controller status audits,missed trap polling, configuration backups, andpolicy cleanups



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Cisco WCS Location

All Cisco WCS Base software features On-demand location of rogue access

points to within 10 meters

On-demand location of clients to within

10 meters

Ability to use Cisco Wireless Location

Appliances



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Cisco WCS Location

The Cisco Wireless Location

Appliance performs location

computations based on the RSSIinformation that arrives from Cisco

Wireless LAN Controllers.



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Cisco WCS Location

The location appliance acts as a serverto a WCS server by collecting, storing,

and passing on data from its associated

controllers

When WCS is enhanced with a location

appliance, it can display historical

location data for up to 2,500 clients.



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Cisco WCS Plus

A Cisco WCS PLUS license supportsCisco WCS Location license features

Plus High availability.

The Plus license is required toenable the mobility service engine

which is used to ensure data is

synchronized between servers.



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System Requirements

Windows 2003/SP2 32-bit installations. Windows 2003/SP2 64-bit installations are not

supported.

Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 5.X

32-bit operating system installations. Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 5.X 64-bit

operating system installations are not supported.



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Home Page


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WCS Network Summary Page


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WCS Controller Summary Page


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WCS Client Page


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WCS Maps Page


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WCS Location Tracking with the

Location Appliance

The Wireless Location Appliance uses atechnique known as RF Fingerprinting to

calculate the location of tracked devices.

RF Fingerprinting resolves location

coordinates by determining how RF signalswill be received at every grid point within a

building.

The WCS location tool predicts how the RFinteracts with the building.



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WCS Location Tracking using RF

Fingerprinting

RF fingerprinting traces signal strength for every signal heard bya Cisco AP this allows accounting for reflection and multipath



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Location Appliance Overview

Cisco 2700 Series Wireless LocationAppliance

Advanced RF Fingerprinting utilizedfor high accuracy location tracking.

Real Time Location Tracking Wi-Fi Devices

Wi-Fi Active RFID Tags

Rogue clients & APs


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Location Appliance

Device is Linux & Java basedInterface defined in SOAP/XML

Client API for WCS to hide details of SOAP/XML

details for Java clients

SNMP operates between Location Applianceand network

Requires WCS Location version for management


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Location Appliance Applications

Visibility and tracking of 1500mobile devices for 30 days

Work-flow automation and people

tracking

WLAN security and network control

RF capacity management andvisibility

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