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ProSAFE® WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller Industry First Affordable High Capacity Wireless Controller The NETGEAR® WC9500 Wireless Controller is the industry’s first affordable, high capacity, secured wireless controller capable of managing up to 600 Access Points and 36,000 concurrent clients per cluster. The WC9500 delivers ultra-fast Access Point discovery, Layer 2 and Layer 3 fast roaming, multiple 10 Gigabit connectivity, a captive portal for guest access, fully distributed architecture, and ease of configuration and management. Unlike other WLAN systems that are costly, complex and cumbersome to deploy, the WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller is ideal for medium to large enterprise, higher education (university and colleges), large hospitals and medium to large size hotels. The NETGEAR WC9500 is designed with simplicity in management and ease of use to enable users to set up the systems in minutes. The product is enterprise-grade and feature-rich, and is secured and high performance. Features Highly scalable Distributed and local forwarding Investment protection • Supports up to 200 Access Points and 12,000 concurrent clients per controller • Data traffic can be forwarded to the best path without traversing the controller • Supports 802.11n and 802.11ac ProSAFE Access Points • Stack up to 3 WC9500 per wireless cluster • Eliminates controller bottleneck for high throughput 802.11ac and 802.11n APs • Hassle-free, plug-and-replace upgrade with WC7520 and WC7600 • Intelligent tunneling with Layer 2 and Layer 3 roaming Industry-leading warranty • Supports up to 600 Access Points and 36,000 concurrent clients per controller cluster Multiple 10 Gigabit connectivity • Consists of 2x10G connectivity with SFP+ form factor • Backward compatible with 1G connectivity with SFP form factor • Additional 1x1G port with RJ-45 Copper connectivity Ultra-fast Access Point discovery with Ufasttm • Ufast AP discovery provides super-fast AP discovery tm • Improves reliability and shortens setup time • Secured communication between AP and WC9500 • Hardware redundancy for enterprisegrade solution • Two redundant, hot-swap power supplies (PSU) (one PSU comes with the controller; second optional PSU is ordered separately) • Two removable fan trays provide front-toback cooling airflow for best compatibility with data center hot aisle/cold aisle airflow patterns Enterprise-grade and feature-rich • Layer 2 and Layer 3 seamless roaming • Dynamic RF adjustments • WLAN healing for automatic RF coverage in the case of AP failure • Rogue AP detection • NETGEAR WC9500 is backed by NETGEAR ProSAFE Lifetime Hardware Warranty* • ProSUPPORT™ Lifetime 24x7 Basic HW Support • 90 days software configuration support and Lifetime Chat Support, remote diagnostic, and escalation management • Includes L

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ProSAFE® WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller Target Applications Higher Education Deployment ProSAFE® Wireless Controller

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ProSAFE® WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller Supported Access Points Access Points Part Numbers Typical Deployment ProSAFE Wireless-AC 3x3:1.7 Gbps High Performance Access Point Medium to large enterprise, higher education, mid to large hotels and hospitals requiring ultra high density throughput ProSAFE Wireless-AC 2x2:1.2 Gbps Premium Access Point Medium enterprise, higher education, hospitality requiring high density and throughput ProSAFE Wireless-N Dual Band Concurrent Premium Access Point Large and medium enterprise, higher education, large and mid-sized hotels and hospitals...

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ProSAFE® WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller Features Scalable Architecture Guest Access, Captive Portal and Logging Load Balancing and Rate Limiting The NETGEAR WC9500 High Capacity Controller supports up to 200 APs and is upgradable in 10, 50, 100, or 200 APs via software licenses. Stackable up to three controllers, a WC9500 High Capacity Controller stack can support up to 600 access points with a single interface. The WC9500 offers redundancy for always-on reliability. Guest access allows restricted access to the network, using an integrated captive portal. Two methods of entry are...

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ProSAFE® WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller Supported Access Points The best of centralized and distributed architectures are implemented by the NETGEAR ProSAFE High Capacity Wireless Controller for outstanding Wireless-N performance. Local traffic is automatically switched at the access points level for fastest processing, when roamed L3 traffic is processed at the controller level with advanced data control. Real-time applications such as VoWiFi require perfect inter-subnet/ inter-VLAN mobility: WC9500 encryption tunneling delivers enterprise-class fast roaming without any impact on...

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ProSAFE® WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller Technical Features RF MANAGEMENT Automatic Channel Allocation • Automatic channel distribution to minimize interferences • Auto-channel allocation taking into consideration of the environment, interferences, traffic load and neighboring AP • Modifiable list of corporate channels to be used • Scheduled mode for Auto-channel allocation • Automatic mode in case of high level of interferences available Automatic Power Control • Optimum transmit power determination based on coverage requirements • Automatic power control mode available •...

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ProSAFE® WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller Technical Features WIRELESS NETWORK MONITORING Monitoring Summary Summary of the Managed Access Points status, rogue Access Points detected, Wireless stations connected, Wireless Controller Information and Wireless Network usage Managed Access Points APs status for the Managed Access Points and details that includes configuration settings, current Wireless settings, current Clients and detailed Traffic statistics Rogue Access Points • Rogue Access Points Reported • Rogue Access Points in same channel • Rogue Access Points in interfering...

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