1. Central WiFiManager

2. Business AP Market Trend
Centralized AP management is the trend in enterprise market
Individual managing APs is time-consuming and error-prone for larger networks
Customers are tend to use software-basic controller to manage their APs in the future.
© Infonetics Research: Wireless LAN Deployment Strategies: N. American Enterprise Survey, Oct. 2012

3. Business AP Market Trend
Tunnel mode is the bottleneck when used in controller
In the past few years, the major key feature of wireless business solution is to build proprietary tunnel such as CAPWAP tunnel from AP to controller for data transmitting and AP management. However, when wireless trend shift to 11n dual band, 11AC, these high speed APs will cause controller as bottleneck since all wireless traffics will go through the tunnel to the controller, thus, the trend is to use bridge mode instead of tunnel mode.
Each 11AC APs generate up to 1750Mbps data rate loading to controller.
Switch
Hardware Controller
Router/Firewall
All wireless traffic go to controller through proprietary tunnel.

4. Business AP Market Trend
11ac AP is the main stream in business AP market
Dual band AP will become more popular because more and more mobile devices have dual band Wi-Fi built-in. 2.4GHz single band is also too narrow because it only has three non-overlapping channels.(5GHz has 23 non- overlapping channels.)
Unlike the previous 11g to 11n transition, the 11ac transition is faster because the price gap between 11ac AP and 11n dual band AP is minor.
Band
2.4 GHz
5 GHz
Channel
3 non-overlapping channels
23 non-overlapping channels(19 in EU)
Standard
11b,11g and 11n
11a,11n and 11ac
Interference
Higher
Lesser

5. SMB AP Product Selling Point
Private Cloud Management Solution-Central WiFiManager
Wireless AP software controller
Multi-tenant structure
Business Wireless Feature Support(CWM)
Captive portal
Bandwidth Optimization
Auto RF Management
BandSteering, IGMP snooping and multicast Rate Control
Robust, various Access Points Offering
Indoor single band AP
Indoor dual band AP
Outdoor AP

6. Central WiFiManger Positioning
Segmentation
SMB/Education/Chain store/Factory/Hospitality
Targeting
Customer who need cost-effective central wireless management solution
Have demand to manage hundreds APs in one controller
Positioning
Software based controller(Free controller software, no AP license charge)
Private cloud management
Business wireless feature support

7. Private Cloud Management Solution
CWM Management Infrastructure
The Central WiFiManager solution is bridge mode infrastructure. With the pass through NAT feature, the software controller can be deployed in customer’s layer 3 environment or internet.
The software controller can be deployed in layer 3 or internet
CWM server
Normal traffic will go through existed networking infrastructure to the internet
Management traffic will go through proprietary tunnel to the software controller
Router

8. Private Cloud Management Solution
Wireless AP software controller
Extendable, flexible WLAN management solution
The web based controller software can be installed in windows platform for thousands AP management
It can manage access points that behind NAT device
Branch office
Head Quarters
Router
Firewall
CWM server
Router
Branch office

9. Private Cloud Management Solution
Wireless AP software controller
Multi-tenant architecture
Offers multi-layer management authority in one controller for multi-site management
HQ Admin
CWM server
Head Quarters
The HQ Admin can manage all WLAN networks
The Local Admin can manage his own WLAN network
Local Admin
Branch office
Branch office
Local Admin

10. Business Wireless Feature Support
Captive Portal and Access Control
Multiple authentication methods support
Supports local database, external radius, LDAP, POP3 and passcode authentication
Access control for wireless user
White list and restricted network function provided
Authentication server
Switch
Captive Portal page
Internal server/PC

11. Business Wireless Feature Support
Auto RF Management
Auto Power and Channel Adjustment
Channel and output power can be automatic adjusted to improve performance and enhance security.
RF self-healing
Provides automated RF recover functionality to compensate for RF dead zones and AP failures.

12. Business Wireless Feature Support
Bandwidth Optimization
Supports four type of wireless bandwidth allocation method
It can optimize the network usage and performance, increase user productivity, satisfaction and performance of all applications.
Allocate even BW by SSID
Allocate specific BW by SSID
Allocate different BW for 11a/b/g/n station
Allocate maximum BW for all station
AP will distribute even bandwidth for each client
All clients share the total bandwidth
AP will distribute different bandwidth for 11a/b/g/n clients.
Specify the maximum bandwidth for each connected client.
VIP Guest
Higher bandwidth
Normal Guest
Limited bandwidth

13. Business Wireless Feature Support
Band Steering
It triggers to balance the client loading in AP and establish a more stable and quicker connection for all clients.
Multicast rate control and IGMP snooping
Supports enhanced multi-media transmitting features in multicast to improve the wireless quality.
Before
Transfer multicast to unicast(IGMP snooping) or control multicast rate to improve performance
5GHz
2.4GHz
After
5GHz
pad
2.4GHz
Multicast server

14. Robust, various Access Points Offering
Indoor 2.4GHz Single band AP
DAP-2310
11n 300Mbps single band entry level access point
External antenna, high power design
Desktop/Wall mount support
DAP-2330
11n 300Mbps single band ceiling access point
Internal antenna, high power design
Desktop/Wall/Ceiling mount support
DAP-2360
11n 300Mbps single band metal class access point
Metal housing, high power design
DAP-2310
DAP-2330
DAP-2360

15. Robust, various Access Points Offering
Indoor dual band AP
DAP-2690
11n 600Mbps dual band access point
Metal housing, high power design
Desktop/Wall mount support
DAP-2660
11ac 1200Mbps single band ceiling access point
Internal antenna, high power design
802.3af PoE support, UL2043 and UL compliant
Ceiling/Wall/Desktop mount support
DAP-2695
11ac 1750Mbps dual band access point
DAP-2690
DAP-2660
DAP-2695

16. Robust, various Access Points Offering
Outdoor dual band AP
DAP-3662
11ac 1200Mbps dual band access point
Internal 5dBi antenna, high power design
IP67 waterproof, heavy wind resistance
UL94V0/UL compliant
-20 to 60 degree operating temperature
DAP-3662

17. Robust, various Access Points Offering
11n Dual Band
11n Single Band
Model
DAP-2695
DAP-2660
DAP-2690/B1
DAP-2360/B1
DAP-2330
DAP-2310/B1
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Wi-Fi Standard
802.11a/b/g/n/ac
802.11a/b/g/n
802.11b/g/n
Speed
2.4GHz:450Mbps 5GHz:1300Mbps
2.4GHz:300Mbps 5GHz:900Mbps
2.4GHz:300Mbps 5GHz:300Mbps
2.4GHz:300Mbps
Housing
Metal Desktop
Plastic Ceiling
Plastic Desktop
Interface
Two Gigabit Ports
One Gigabit Port
PoE Spec
802.3at
802.3af
Max. Tx Power
27.5dBm
2.4GHz:28dBm 5GHz:26dBm
23dBm
27dBm
Antenna
External 2.4GHz 4dBi and 5GHz 6dBi omni-directional antenna
Internal omni-directional antenna
External 2.4GHz 5dBi omni-directional antenna
External 2.4GHz 2dBi omni-directional antenna
Mount type
Wall/Desktop
Ceiling/Wall/Desktop
Security Lock
Yes
Plenum Rated
Option No
Power Adapter
48V/0.5A
12V/1A

18. Scenario 1 Enterprise
Administrator can manage and monitor wireless network easily
Enable captive portal and access control for employee and guest use
Enable auto RF management , bandwidth optimization and band steering for better wireless usage.
Branch office
Router
Administrator
HQ office
Firewall
CWM server

19. Scenario 2 Education
The CWM server can be implement in each school or education authority to manage single or multiple sites
Enable captive portal and access control for teacher and student use
Enable Multicast rate control and IGMP snooping to improve multicast performance
Firewall
CWM server
Switch

20. Scenario 3 Chain Store HQ Office
CWM can be implement in HQ and manage each store’s access points
The staff can generate Wi-Fi passcode for guest use
Enable captive portal, auto RF management, bandwidth optimization
Firewall
CWM server
Store A
Store B
Router
Router
Staff

21. Scenario 4 Hospitality
The CWM server can be implement in intranet or internet
Front desk staff can generate Wi-Fi passcode for guest use
Enable captive portal, auto RF management, bandwidth optimization
Firewall
CWM server
Front desk staff
Switch
Switch

22. Guidance For Central WiFiManager
The difference between software controller and hardware controller
Networking infrastructure of software controller
Software controller supports bridge mode only, hardware controller vendor claim they can support tunnel mode or bridge mode. However, bridge mode is the main stream and almost all customers may choose bridge mode now because tunnel mode will cause controller to be the bottleneck. Btw, we also can say the benefit of bridge mode which can share the wireless loading to existed wired network.
Tunnel mode
Bridge mode
All wireless client’s traffic and management traffic will go to controller
Only management traffic will go to software or hardware controller
hardware controller
Software or hardware controller

23. Guidance For Central WiFiManager
What is PC hardware requirement for Central WiFiManager?
The Specification and sizing guideline is as below.
Large Scale Install
Small Scale Install
Maximum AP Managed
500AP
100AP
Recommended Processor
Intel Core i5 CPU
Intel Core i3 CPU
Recommended RAM
4G DDR3
2G DDR2
Recommended Storage
2TB
1TB
Ethernet NIC
Gigabit
Display Card
DirectX 11 1GB
Windows Platform
Windows 2008,2012
Windows7Pro,2008,2012
HQ will also offer project based support for customer who has thousand AP demand

24. Guidance For Central WiFiManager
What happened if software controller crashed? All APs will stop service?
When AP loses controller connection, actually, it only impacts three functions, auto RF management, user authentication roaming and Pass Code. The configuration file is still saved in AP side, so there is no problem on other functions. Of course in controller side all APs will become offline and no new record from AP side, but APs still can work normally.
Regarding Auto RF management, it needs controller to gather information from all APs, it can’t work if controller crashed. User authentication roaming means user can roaming without re-authentication if no idle timeout. It also needs controller to communicate with APs. If controller crashed, user needs to re- authentication if roaming from one AP to another AP.
The controller redundant feature will be ready, before that the backup solution we offered is database backup. Customer has to backup the Central WiFiManager database, once the original controller crashed, just install an new controller and import the backup database, all configuration and data will be restored.
The Pass Code is one type of user authentication, user can enter pass code in login page to get the permission to access Wi-Fi network. Because the pass code is generated by CWM server, if the connection between AP and CWM server break, the authentication will also fail.