Netgear WC9500 Product Datasheet - Page 1

ProSAFE® WC9500 High Capacity Wireless Controller Data Sheet WC9500 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 • Supports up to 200 Access Points and 12,000 concurrent clients per controller • Stack up to 3 WC9500 per wireless cluster • 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 • Ufasttm AP discovery provides super-fast AP discovery • Improves reliability and shortens setup time • Secured communication between AP and WC9500 Distributed and local forwarding • Data traffic can be forwarded to the best path without traversing the controller • Eliminates controller bottleneck for high throughput 802.11n APs • Intelligent tunneling with Layer 2 and Layer 3 roaming • 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 Investment protection • Supports ProSAFE Access Points • 802.11ac-ready for future deployments • Hassle-free, plug-and-replace upgrade with WC7520 and WC7600 Industry-leading warranty • 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 Lifetime Next Business Day Onsite Hardware Replacement Page 1 of 10