A Highly Scalable Controller for Managing High Density Networks
The growth of new business services, security threats, and the adoption of IoT connected devices is driving an array of wireless network management requirements. This dynamic environment creates challenges for IT teams attempting to adapt to business and user requirements while ensuring security. Large scale deployments and configuration of wireless APs require simplified management with extensive visibility, policy, and control capabilities. In addition, organizations outside of IT want to understand visitor and location analytics along with guest and asset activity, as they implement new business services.
ExtremeCloud IQ Controller delivers unified wired and wireless management of up to 20,000 devices (including up to 1,000 switches) and high-density deployments of up to 100,000 users. It includes tightly integrated services and features that help to simplify the deployments by providing a single point of access for trusted authentication. Controller also provides topology options to consolidate network access at a central location, overlaying and abstracting the interconnecting network.
This highly scalable application is a component of the ExtremeCloud IQ portfolio of network management products. It is deployed as a physical or virtual appliance on-premises. The application supports seamless roaming with centralized and distributed data forwarding. ExtremeCloud IQ Controller can be connected to ExtremeCloud IQ for cloud-based network management with virtualized management and control planes for cloud deployments. The Cloud Visibility feature facilitates reporting of wired and wireless metrics, including client application metrics, into ExtremeCloud IQ
Simplified Management
ExtremeCloud IQ Controller provides management, network access control (NAC), and routing for mobile, PCs, and IoT devices that use wireless access points (APs) to connect to the network. This highly scalable controller includes comprehensive critical network services for wireless and wired connectivity in campus environments or centralized sites. It provides secure wireless device onboarding, distributed and centralized data paths, role-based access control (RBAC) through the Application Layer, integrated location services, and IoT device onboarding through a single platform to help streamline network management activities.
Each ExtremeCloud IQ Controller provides the following functionality:
- Controls and configures wireless APs, providing centralized management.
- Authenticates wireless devices that request connection to a wireless AP.
- Assigns each wireless device to basic network services, such as address resolution protocol (ARP), dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), domain name system (DNS), and hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) when it connects.
- Routes traffic from wireless devices to the wired network.
- Applies network access roles to the wireless device session.
- Provides session logging and accounting capability
- Configures, monitors, and helps troubleshoot switches.
| Brand | |
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| Brand | Extreme Networks |
| Ethernet Port | |
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| Total Number of Network Ports | 2 |
| Size / Dimensions | |
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| Form Factor | Rack-mountable |
| Rack Height | 1U |
| General Features | |
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| Frequency | 63 Hz |
| Manufacturer | Extreme Networks, Inc |