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Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, DB9, 4500g, Black - Scalable to over 2000 Access Points per wireless Appliance with unified management of IdentiFi Access Points;
- Seamless roaming with centralized and distributed data forwarding Virtualized management and control planes for cloud deployments;
- High-availability architecture for real-time voice/video/data applications Lifetime warranty on entry-level appliance reduces the total cost of ownership.

Product Overview
The award-winning IdentiFi Wireless Appliance family provides a scalable range of solutions that are ideal for managed WLAN deployments supporting demanding voice/video/data applications. Our Wireless Appliances are simple to deploy and manage, yet provide advanced functionality to allow organizations to define how wireless voice/video/data traffic is processed without architectural constraints and in accordance with the business needs. Select wireless Appliances come with a lifetime warranty and phone support as well as free software maintenance releases for one year to protect your wireless networking investment and minimize the total cost of ownership.

The V2110 is available as a VMware appliance for easy deployment in cloud environments. Scalable up to 500 APs, the V2110 extends all the cost savings, hardware independence, and resiliency benefits of data center virtualization to the wireless infrastructure.
IdentiFi Wireless Appliances enable role-based management for users, devices, and applications with individualized services including Quality of Service (QoS), call admission control, secure access policies, network access control (NAC), captive portals, rate limiting, multicast, filtering, and traffic forwarding. These services are enabled by the unique and flexible IdentiFi Wireless Virtual Network Service (VNS)
architecture and easily provisioned and managed by an intuitive web interface.

Each Appliance supports mixed mode deployments of 802.11ac, 802.11n and 802.11a/b/g APs along with the ability to seamlessly roam between wireless Appliances and access points, providing scalability and ease of deployment. For large deployments, IdentiFi Wireless further simplifies the management of
thousands of APs by creating mobility zones that extend the VNS properties across multiple wireless appliances. Mobility zones maintain the VNS definitions and the individual policies throughout the entire mobility zone, ensuring that policies follow the user regardless of physical location.

IdentiFi Wireless provides an easy, low cost way to deploy 802.11ac/abgn solutions, delivering cost-effective pricing, wired/wireless integration, and low TCO while openly supporting a broad range of mobile voice, video, and location-based applications to drive enterprise productivity and reduce the overall cost of mobility. With the ability to deliver both centralized and distributed traffic forwarding by application, IdentiFi Wireless Appliances enable a flexible, cost-effective path to deploying 802.11ac/abgn for the enterprise. Backed by industry-leading global support and services, IdentiFi Wireless solutions enable customers to leverage existing investments and avoid forklift upgrades.

Virtual Network Service (VNS) - An Adaptive WLAN Architecture
Most WLAN solutions force network administrators to choose between a centralized or distributed architecture. A significant advantage of IdentiFi Wireless Appliances is that they can support both deployment models simultaneously, offering significant flexibility benefits over other solutions. Network administrators can select how traffic will be handled on a per-SSID basis, without any restrictions, so that the wireless LAN infrastructure can adapt to business requirements and applications.
A centralized architecture requires all traffic to be backhauled to a centralized Appliance. With the higher data rates of 802.11ac and 802.11n APs, traffic loads on the wired network can be much greater than those created by legacy 802.11a/b/g APs. Depending on the size of the WLAN deployment and how much data is forwarded to the centralized Appliance, significant congestion may result.
A fully distributed deployment eliminates backhauling traffic to a wireless Appliance but increases the processing complexity for real-time mobile applications that require seamless cross-subnet roaming (e.g. VoWLAN). This can force IT managers to either create a large broadcast domain or apply many VLANs.
IdentiFi Wireless Virtual Network Services control traffic flow by allowing traffic to be backhauled to a wireless Appliance or switched locally at the AP on a per SSID basis. With local switching, the AP is still managed centrally by the wireless Appliance, but data is not backhauled to the wireless Appliance. This improves responsiveness and ensures that traffic does not unnecessarily traverse costly WANs or contribute to bottlenecks at aggregating switches. A VNS also provides role-based policies providing security, NAC, mobility, and QoS priority that can be implemented on a per user and per application basis. The table below highlights this capability:
System (IPS), full packet inspection, adaptive signature pattern matching, protocol analysis, and behavioral anomaly detection are delivered for both wired and wireless users. Further, OneFabric™ Control Center Mobile IAM identity based policy privileges are unified across the wired and wireless
infrastructure to deliver role-based access control – regardless of connectivity method.
The Mobile IAM policies ensure only the right users have access to the right information, from the right place, at the right time. Third party authentication systems can also be integrated with the use of the External Captive Portal interface.