Quick Reference Guide

Introduction
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ProSAFE Wireless Controller WC9500
- Up to eight profiles per access point profile group and eight profiles per radio
(therefore, dual-band access points can support up to 16 profiles in one access point
profile group).
- Support for up to 144 profiles
1
on one wireless controller (eight profiles per access
point group and eight groups per radio). Each profile supports settings for SSID,
network authentication, data encryption, client separation, VLAN, MAC ACL, and
wireless QoS.
- Rogue access point detection and classification.
- Guest access and captive portal access with cost and expiration accounting.
- Scheduled wireless on/of
f times.
• Wi-Fi Multimedia Quality of Service and advanced wireless features
- Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) support for video, audio, and voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi).
- WMM power save option.
- Automatic WLAN healing mechanism ensures seamless coverage for wireless users.
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 seamless roaming support.
- Local Layer 2 traf
fic switching and Layer 3 traf
fic processing at access point level for
fast processing.
• RF management
- Automatic control of access point transmit power and channel allocation to reduce
interference.
- Automatic load balancing of clients across access points.
- Rate limiting per profile.
• Monitoring and reporting
- Monitoring of the status of the network, wireless controllers, WLANs, and clients, and
network usage statistics.
- Specific health monitoring of access points.
- Logging and emailing of system events, RF events, load-balancing events, and
rate-limiting events.
For a list of all features and capabilities of the wireless controller, see the datasheet that you
can download from http://support.netgear.com/product/WC9500.
1. Number of profiles depends on the access point model used with the wireless controller.