Product specifications

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Table 1. Cisco 5760 Wireless LAN Controller Features
Feature Benefits
Scalability
Supports up to 1000 access points and 12,000 wireless clients for business-critical wireless services.
Unparalleled scalable wireless solution including multiple controllers can support up to 72,000 access
points and 864,000 wireless clients.
High performance
Optimized for 802.11ac standard.
6 10G SFP+ uplinks.
Hardware processing to provide up to 60 Gbps throughput with services such as downloadable ACL,
granular QoS queues, fairness algorithm, NetFlow v9 processing, and so on.
High resiliency
Converged access deployment mode provides hierarchical network design that constraints outages to
smaller failure domains, thereby providing higher resiliency. Wireless clients will recover quickly from switch
failures within the Cisco 3850 or 3650 Series switch stack automatically through stateful failover (access
point SSO).
Cisco 5760 in centralized deployment mode (also known as local mode) supports 1+1 and N+1 resiliency.
Multiple link aggregation (LAG) support to protect against link failures while maintaining the optimal network
connectivity.
5760 also supports stateful switchover to the standby 5760 controller using the StackWise technology
Service Discovery Gateway
Enables Apple Bonjour
®
services to be advertised and utilized in a separate Layer 2 network. Supports
mDNS and DNS-SD standards for full interoperability.
Application Visibility
Supports Cisco Application Visibility and Control(AVC), the technology that includes the Network-Based
Application Recognition 2 (NBAR-2) engine, Cisco's deep packet inspection (DPI) capability
Controller based on Cisco IOS
Software
Proven and security hardened Cisco IOS
®
Software operating system.
Well known Cisco IOS Software CLI allows customers to use existing management tools for operations.
Cisco’s rich NetFlow ecosystem enables customers to use reporting, monitoring, traffic analysis, and
troubleshooting tools for wireless network.
ClientLink 2.0
Cisco ClientLink 2.0 technology to improve downlink performance to all mobile devices, including one-, two,
and three-spatial-stream devices on 802.11n while improving battery life on mobile devices such as
smartphones and tablets.
CleanAir
Cisco CleanAir technology, which provides proactive, high-speed spectrum intelligence to combat
performance problems due to wireless interference.
RF management
Provides both real-time and historical information about RF interference affecting network performance
across controllers using systemwide Cisco CleanAir technology integration.
Comprehensive end-to-end
security
Offers Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP)-compliant DTLS encryption to make
sure of encryption between access points and controllers or between controllers.
High-performance video
Optimized video delivery using single stream for both wired and wireless clients.
Supports Cisco VideoStream technology to optimize the delivery of business-critical multicast video
applications across the WLAN.
End-to-end voice
Supports unified communications for improved collaboration through messaging, presence, and
conferencing.
Supports all Cisco Unified Communications Wireless IP Phones for cost-effective, real-time voice services.
Advanced QoS
Consistent configuration CLI for both wired and wireless QoS through modular QoS CLI (MQC).
Granular QoS policies per access point, SSID, radio, and client.
Fair bandwidth allocation across wireless clients on an access point.
Uses Cisco’s proven Cisco IOS Software and ASIC technology to provide line-rate performance.
Advanced ACL
Simplifies and centralizes security policies through downloadable ACLs.
ACLs are processed in hardware to provide line-rate performance.
Flexible NetFlow v9
Networkwide visibility with flexible NetFlow for wireless clients.
Environmentally responsible
Organizations may choose to turn off access point radios to reduce power consumption during off-peak
hours.
Integrated wireless LAN controller avoids the deployment of additional device in the network.
Mobility and security
Secure, reliable wireless connectivity and consistent end-user experience.
Increased network availability through proactive blocking of known threats.
IPv6
Supports IPv6 addressing on interfaces with appropriate show commands for monitoring and
troubleshooting.
IPv6 ACLs are processed in hardware to provide line-rate performance.