WiNG 5

WiNG5 is OS of wifi solution of Extreme networks ( legacy Motorola solution ). It has strength in 4 aspects as below.

Profiles

Profiles are used to assign common Network, Wireless and Security configuration parameters to a group of APs & Controllers.

Zero-touch provisioning

The APs can be directly plugged into the network without the need for any pre-staging

Layer 2 (Multicast) or Layer 3 (DHCP option or DNS) automatic discovery

The controller pushes the right configuration to the Access points based on the location at which the AP is deployed

WiNG5 provides plug-n-play Access Point adoption using intuitive Auto provisioning policies based on:

• IP Address or subnet
• VLAN
• Model Number
• CDP / LLDP Snoop
• DHCP option
• DNS Suffix
• MAC / Serial number
• FQDN Wildcard

Smart RF

• Smart RF is the RF Management and self healing feature that adjusts according to the dynamic RF environment
• Smart-RF selects optimal channel and power settings for APs across a cluster of switches
• Creates a channel balanced distribution of AP’s
• Counters Wi-Fi and Non-Wi-Fi Interference
• Eliminates dead spots in RF coverage.
• Insures against loss of coverage due to sudden AP Failure
• Mitigates Co-Channel Interference so that APs don’t interfere with each other
• Automatically creates ‘Micro-cell’ for high density deployments

Capacity control - Smart Band Control

• Smart Band Control detects dual radio clients and will distribute clients in each radio band based on a configurable ratio or percentage
• One part in our Client Load Balancing strategy, allowing us to distributes clients:
• Across Access Points
• Across Bands (2.4 or 5 GHz)
• Across Channels in a band

Integrated Firewall

• WiNG provides a Stateful Wireless firewall.
• The Firewall is Enabled by default and supported on all the WiNG devices – Controllers and Access Points
• The integrated firewall provides:
• Stateful Packet Inspection (L2/L3)
• IP Access Control Lists (ACL)
• MAC Access Control Lists (ACL)
• NAT
• Proxy ARP

WiNG5 provide hierachical configuration model. And like object oriented programming language it use object oriented model, so

• inheritance
• reuse
• overriding

of configuration is possible.