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System Planning and Deployment Scenarios

ProSAFE Wireless Controller WC7600

Before you start the configuration of your wireless controller, decide whether you can use a

basic configuration (that is, follow the Basic submenus) or need to use an advanced

configuration (that is, follow the Advanced submenus). Once you have made your choice,

configuring the wireless controller should be fairly easy if you consistently follow either the

Basic submenus or the Advanced submenus.

Profile Group Concepts

Each access point can support up to eight security profiles (16 for dual-band access points),

each with its own SSID, security settings, MAC ACL, rate-limiting settings, WMM, and so on.

The wireless controller follows the same architecture. A profile group on the wireless

controller includes all the features that you can configure for an individual access point: up to

eight profiles (16 for dual-band access points), each of which has its own SSID, security,

MAC ACL, rate-limiting settings, WMM settings, and so on.

Basic Profile

The basic profile includes all the settings that are required to configure a fully functional

access point with up to eight security profiles (16 for dual-band access points).

After you have used the automatic discovery process and added access points to the

managed AP list on the wireless controller, the access points are assigned by default to the

basic profile group.

If your network requires the wireless controller to manage multiple access points with

different configurations, use the advanced profile.

Advanced Profile

The advanced profile lets you configure up to eight access point profile groups. Each group

includes all the settings that are required to configure a fully functional access point with up to

eight security profiles (16 for dual-band access points).

For example, if your company has four buildings, each with a different wireless network, you

simply create four profile groups. You then assign all access points in one building to one

profile group, all access points in another building to a second profile group, and so on.

For each profile group, you can create an individual radio on/off schedule, RF management

settings, MAC ACL authentication, and an authentication server. For each radio in a profile

group (2.4 GHz radio and 5 GHz radio), you can create individual wireless settings, WMM,

and rate-limit settings.

The following figure shows the advanced profile group architecture. The structure that is

shown under Group-1 is implemented in all profile groups (that is, Group-2 through Group-8):

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