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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. © 2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This document is Cisco Public Information.

Table 1 lists the features and benefits of the Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controllers. Table 1. Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controller Features and Benefits Benefits ● Supports up to 75 access points ● Supports up to 1000 clients Ease of Deployment ● For quick and easy deployment Access Points can be connected directly to 2504 Wireless LAN Controller via two PoE (Power over Ethernet) ports High Performance ● Wired-network speed and nonblocking performance for 802.11n and 802.11ac networks. Supports up to 1 Gbps throughput ● Provides both real-time and historical information about RF...

Item Data Request for Comments (RFCs) Specification ● RFC 768 UDP ● RFC 791 IP ● RFC 2460 IPv6 (passthrough bridging mode only) ● RFC 792 ICMP ● RFC 793 TCP ● RFC 826 ARP ● RFC 1122 Requirements for Internet Hosts ● RFC 1519 CIDR ● RFC 1542 BOOTP ● RFC 2131 DHCP ● RFC 5415 CAPWAP Protocol Specification 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...

SNMP v1, v2c, v3 RFC 854 Telnet RFC 1155 Management Information for TCP/IP-Based Internets RFC 1156 MIB RFC 1157 SNMP RFC 1213 SNMP MIB II RFC 1350 TFTP RFC 1643 Ethernet MIB RFC 2030 SNTP RFC 2616 HTTP RFC 2665 Ethernet-Like Interface types MIB RFC 2674 Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering, and Virtual Extensions RFC 2819 RMON MIB RFC 2863 Interfaces Group MIB RFC 3164 Syslog RFC 3414 User-Based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3 RFC 3418 MIB for SNMP RFC 3636 Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 MAUs Cisco private MIBs Management...

Ordering Information Tables 3 and 4 provide ordering information for the Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controllers. To place an order, visit the Cisco ordering website: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ordering/index.shtml. Table 3. Ordering Information for Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controllers Part Number 2500 Series Wireless Controller for up to 5 Cisco access points 2500 Series Wireless Controller for up to 15 Cisco access points 2500 Series Wireless Controller for up to 25 Cisco access points 2500 Series Wireless Controller for up to 50 Cisco access points Cisco 2500 Series Wireless Controller...

Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) is required for all Cisco OfficeExtend deployments to encrypt the data plane traffic. To enable this functionality, you must obtain a $0 DTLS license. Customers planning to install this device physically in Russia must obtain a physical PAK in order to enable a DTLS license and should not download the license from Cisco.com. Please consult your local government regulations to ensure that data DTLS encryption is permitted. The DTLS Paper PAK license is designated for customers who purchase a controller with DTLS disabled due to import restrictions but...