Netgear WC7500 - ProSAFE® Wireless Controller User Manual

The wireless controller supports stacking of up to three units for management of up to 
150 access points (models WC7600 and WC7600v2) or 600 access points (model WC9500) 
through purchased licensing (see 

In a stack, one wireless controller functions as the master controller, and the other two 
wireless controllers function as slave controllers.

The following figure shows a stacked configuration with WC9500 wireless controllers in which 
you can manage up to 600 access points:

The wireless controllers that you intend to make members of the stack must be connected 
over a wired connection. A switch or router can be located between the wireless controllers 
that are part of a stack.

The following procedure described the high-level configuration steps to set up a stack.



Configure the master controller, including the system settings, profiles, security settings, 
and WiFi settings.

On each slave controller, configure the system settings only.

On the master controller, enable stacking and add all slave controllers to the stack.

On the master controller, synchronize the configurations to the slave controllers.

The profiles, security settings, WiFi settings, administrative user name and password, 
and firmware image of the master controller are synchronized to the slave controllers. 
The managed AP list of the master controller is not synchronized.

On each slave controller, run the Discovery Wizard to discover the access points that the 
slave controller must manage and add them to the managed AP list for the slave controller.