Description
Cisco5508 Dubai
The Cisco5508 Dubai is designed to support a higher volume of clients and facilitate more efficient roaming, boasting a throughput at least nine times faster than existing 802.11a/g networks. It serves as a highly adaptable and scalable platform, delivering comprehensive system-wide services for essential wireless operations in medium to large-sized enterprises and campus settings. Engineered with a focus on 802.11n performance and extensive scalability, it ensures heightened uptime, simultaneous management of 12 access points, superior performance for seamless streaming video, high-quality voice calls, and improved fault recovery for a consistent mobility experience, even in the most demanding environments. Tailored for the upcoming era of wireless networking, the Cisco5508 Dubai enhances mobility and readies businesses for the upcoming surge of mobile devices and applications.
This controller automates wireless configuration and management tasks, empowering network managers with the necessary visibility and control to efficiently manage, secure, and optimize the performance of their wireless networks. Equipped with integrated Cisco CleanAir® technology, the Cisco Controller Dubai safeguards 802.11n performance by providing comprehensive access across the network to real-time and historical RF interference data, facilitating rapid troubleshooting and resolution.
Features
Scalability and performance
Cisco5508 Dubai is optimized to enable 802.11ac Wave 2 next-generation networks, supporting : 12, 25, 50,100, 250, or 500 access points for business-critical wireless services at locations of all sizes
RF management
Proactively identifies and mitigates signal interference for better performance. Cisco5508 Dubai provides both real-time and historical information about RF interference affecting network performance across controllers, through system-wide integration with Cisco CleanAir Technology
Multimode with indoor, outdoor mesh access points
- Versatile controller with support for centralized, distributed, and mesh deployments to be used at different places in the network, offering maximum flexibility for medium-sized campus, enterprise, and branch networks
- Centralized control, management, and client troubleshooting
- Seamless client access in the event of a WAN link failure (local data switching)
- Highly secure guest access
- Efficient access point upgrade that optimizes the WAN link utilization for downloading access point images
- Cisco OfficeExtend technology that supports corporate wireless service for mobile and remote workers with secure wired tunnels to indoor Cisco Aironet access points supporting OfficeExtend mode
Comprehensive end-to-end security
- Offers Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP)-compliant Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) encryption on the control plane between access points and controllers across remote WAN links
- Management frame protection detects malicious users and alerts network administrators
- Rogue detection for Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance
- Rogue access point detection and detection of denial-of-service attacks
End-to-end voice
- Supports unified Cisco Communication for improved collaboration through messaging, presence, and conferencing
- Supports all Cisco Unified IP Phones for cost-effective, real-time voice services
Fault tolerance and high availability
- Subsecond access point and client failover for uninterrupted application availability
- Redundant 1 Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity
- Solid-state device-based storage – no moving parts
- Optional redundant, hot-swappable power supply with no incremental system downtime
- Enhanced system uptime with fast system restarts
Cisco Enterprise Wireless Mesh
Allows access points to dynamically establish wireless connections without the need for a physical connection to the wired network. Available on select Cisco Aironet access points, Enterprise Wireless Mesh is ideal for warehouses, manufacturing floors, shopping centers, and any other location where extending a wired connection may prove difficult or aesthetically unappealing
WLAN express setup
Cisco5508 Dubai boasts of simplified GUI wizard for quick setup and intuitive dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting
High-performance video
- Cisco Video-Stream technology optimizes the delivery of video applications across the WLAN
Mobility, security, and management for IPv6 and dual-stack clients
- Highly secure, reliable wireless connectivity and consistent end-user experience
- Increased network availability through proactive blocking of known threat s
- Equips administrators for IPv6 planning, troubleshooting, and client traceability from Cisco Prime Infrastructure
Environmentally responsible
Organizations may choose to turn off access point radios to reduce power consumption during off-peak hours
Specifications
| Access points | 25 licenses include (500 licenses max) |
| Device Type | Wireless controller |
| Ports | 8 * SFP uplinks |
| Console ports | 10/100/1000 RJ-45 |
| Wireless standards | 802.11a/b/g/d/e/h/k/n/r/u/w/ac |
| License | 5 AP license : L-LIC-CT5508-5A
25 AP license : L-LIC-CT5508-25A 50 AP license : L-LIC-CT5508-50A 100 AP license : L-LIC-CT5508-100A 250 AP license : L-LIC-CT5508-250A DTLS license : L-LIC-CT55-LPE-K9 |
| Security standards | Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
IEEE 802.11i (WPA2, RSN) RFC 1321 MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm RFC 1851 The ESP Triple DES Transform RFC 2104 HMAC : Keyed Hashing for Message Authentication RFC 2246 TLS Protocol Version 1.0 RFC 2401 Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol RFC 2403 HMAC-MD5-96 within ESP and AH RFC 2404 HMAC-SHA-1-96 within ESP and AH RFC 2405 ESP DES-CBC Cipher Algorithm with Explicit IV RFC 2406 IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) RFC 2407 Interpretation for ISAKMP RFC 2408 ISAKMP RFC 2409 IKE RFC 2451 ESP CBC-Mode Cipher Algorithms RFC 3280 Internet X.509 PKI Certificate and CRL Profile RFC 3602 The AES-CBC Cipher Algorithm and Its Use with IPsec RFC 3686 Using AES Counter Mode with IPsec ESP RFC 4347 Datagram Transport Layer Security RFC 4346 TLS Protocol Version 1.1 |
| Encryption | WEP and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol-Message Integrity Check (TKIP-MIC) : RC4 40, 104 and 128 bits (both static and shared keys)
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) : CBC, CCM, Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code Protocol (CCMP) DES : DES-CBC, 3DES Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) : RC4 128-bit and RSA 1024- and 2048-bit DTLS : AES-CBC IPSec : DES-CBC, 3DES, AES-CBC |
| Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) | IEEE 802.1X
RFC 2548 Microsoft Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes RFC 2716 PPP EAP-TLS RFC 2865 RADIUS Authentication RFC 2866 RADIUS Accounting RFC 2867 RADIUS Tunnel Accounting RFC 3576 Dynamic Authorization Extensions to RADIUS RFC 3579 RADIUS Support for EAP RFC 3580 IEEE 802.1X RADIUS Guidelines RFC 3748 Extensible Authentication Protocol Web-based authentication TACACS support for management users |
