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Data Sheet

Cisco 2500 Series Wireless
Controllers
Small to Medium-Sized Enterprise and Branch
Office Controller
● Support for up to 75 access points and 1000
clients.

Product Overview

● 802.11n and 802.11ac ready support up to 1
Gbps.

The Cisco® 2500 Series Wireless Controller enables systemwide

● Payment Card Industry (PCI) support enables
certification for scanner and kiosk
deployments.
Licensing Flexibility and Investment
Protection
● Additional access point licenses may be
added over time.
Comprehensive Security

wireless functions in small to medium-sized enterprises and branch
offices. Designed for 802.11n and 802.11ac performance, Cisco 2500
Series Wireless Controllers are entry-level controllers that provide
real-time communications between Cisco Aironet® access points to
simplify the deployment and operation of wireless networks (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controller

● Full Control and Provisioning of Wireless
Access Points (CAPWAP) access point to
controller encryption.
● Supports rogue access point detection and
detection of denial-of-service attacks.
● Management frame protection detects
malicious users and alerts network
administrators.
Cisco CleanAir® Technology
● Detects, classifies, locates, and mitigates RF
interference to provide performance protection
for 802.11n and 802.11ac networks.
Cisco OfficeExtend Solution
● Secure, simple, cost-effective mobile
teleworker solution.

As a component of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network, this controller
delivers centralized security policies, wireless intrusion prevention
system (wIPS) capabilities, award-winning RF management, and
quality of service (QoS) for voice and video. Delivering 802.11ac
performance and scalability, the Cisco 2500 Series provides low total
cost of ownership and flexibility to scale as network requirements
grow.

The Cisco 2504 Wireless Controller supports Cisco Application Visibility and Control (AVC), the technology that
includes Cisco’s Network-Based Application Recognition 2 (NBAR-2) engine. N-BAR-2 does deep packet
inspection (DPI) to classify applications and tie into quality of service (QoS) to either drop or mark the traffic,
thereby prioritizing business-critical applications in the network. Cisco AVC uses NetFlow Version 9 to export the
flows to Cisco Prime™ Infrastructure or a third-party NetFlow Collector. The Cisco 2504 Wireless Controller also
supports Bonjour Services Directory, which enables Bonjour (Apple) Services to be advertised and utilized in a
separate Layer 3 network. Wireless Policy engine is a wireless profiler and policy feature on the Cisco 2500 Series
Wireless Controller that enables profiling of wireless devices and enforcement of policies such as VLAN
assignment, QoS, ACL, and time-of-day-based access.
Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controller-based access point licensing offers flexibility with 5, 15, 25, or 50 access
points. Additional access point support can be added in increments of 1, 5, or 25.

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