Netgear WC7520 - ProSafe 20-AP Wireless Controller Reference Manual

The wireless controller provides the following key features and capabilities:

Support for 20 access points on a single wireless controller with no additional license.

Purchased licenses (WC7510L) in increments of 10 access points allow for support of 
up to a maximum number of 50 access points on a single wireless controller.

A maximum of three stacked wireless controllers allows for up to 150 access points in 
a single network.

Support of N:1 redundancy.

Support of 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n modes.

Autodiscovery of access points in the same Layer 2 domain.

Autodiscovery of access points across a Layer 3 domain.

Autodiscovery of remote access points over a site-to-site VPN connection or behind a 
NAT router.

Automatic download of wireless controller-based firmware to discovered access 
points that are added to the managed access point list.

Single point of management for the entire wireless network.

Visualization of live coverage and heat maps for the wireless network.

Automatic firmware upgrade to all managed access points.

DHCP server for IP address provisioning.

Configurable management VLAN.

Identity-based security authentication with an external RADIUS or LDAP (Active 
Directory) server, or with an internal authentication server.

Up to 8 profiles per profile group and 8 profiles per radio (therefore, dual-band access 
points can support up to 16 profiles in one profile group).

Support for up to 128 access point profiles

1

 per wireless controller (8 profiles per 

group and 8 groups per radio). Each access point profile supports settings for SSID, 
network authentication, data encryption, client separation, VLAN, MAC ACL, and 
wireless QoS.

Support for up 8 access point profile groups

2

 per wireless controller.

Rogue access point detection, classification, and mitigation.

Guest access and captive portal access with cost and expiration accounting.

Scheduled wireless on/off times.