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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.
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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
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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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