Product Description
WS-SVC-WLAN-1-K9 - Catalyst 6500 Series
Cisco Systems WS-SVC-WLAN-1-K9 Wireless LAN Services Module, CEF256
The Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless LAN Services Module (WLSM), part of the Catalyst 6500 Series of multilayer switches and a key component of the Cisco Structured Wireless-Aware Network (SWAN) framework, is the industry's only enterprise-class wireless and wireline switching system, enabling secure, easily managed unified networking deployments for enterprises, midsize businesses, universities, and service providers. Network administrators can now provide campus-wide fast secure roaming services to wireless users without sacrificing security, implementing campus-spanning VLANs, or modifying client software or hardware. The Catalyst 6500 Series WLSM delivers the industry's fastest secure Layer 3 mobility system with access point handoff times as low as 50 ms, based upon the selected deployment scenario and the IEEE 802.1X authentication type.
Features of the Cisco WS-SVC-WLAN-1-K9
• Uses existing network infrastructure investments that do not force changes to the underlying wireline infrastructure and do not require special client devices
• Enables secure campus-wide Layer 3 roaming
• Supports up to 6000 wireless LAN users and 600 Cisco Aironet Series autonomous access points spread throughout the campus using a single Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series WLSM deployed in a Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series chassis located anywhere in the network
• Allows network managers to segment and individually authenticate, control access to, and manage disparate wireless user groups such as "guest" and "employee" by enabling wireless mobility groups
• Simplifies management and deployment of wireless networks by unifying wireless and wireline networks, providing consistent application of policies for all wireless traffic via a single point of ingress and providing "out-of-box" access point configuration
• Extends Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series rich intelligent network services to the wireless edge, including enterprise-class security (denial of service [DoS] prevention access control lists [ACLs], firewall, intrusion detection, and IP Security [IPSec] VPN), high availability (Layer 2 and Layer 3 nonstop forwarding [NSF] with stateful switchover [SSO] of the control and data planes in a supervisor failover, and Cisco EtherChannel), and quality of service (QoS) mechanisms