Cisco Cisco Wireless Control System Version 4.0 Brochure
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Cisco Wireless Control System Virtual Domains—
Enhance Access Control and Simplify WLAN Management
Enhance Access Control and Simplify WLAN Management
Challenge
Organizations need an easy and cost-effective method to manage and control wireless network
segments using a single management platform. They need a solution that supports limiting
individual IT administrator’s access to selected segments of the wireless network while still
maintaining super-user or root administrator control of the wireless LAN. In addition, managed
service providers need the flexibility to manage multiple customer WLANs from a single
management platform.
Solution Overview
Enterprises can now segment the Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS) using virtual domains
(partitioning). Cisco WCS virtual domains enhance network access control by allowing
organizations to limit an individual IT administrator’s access to only those wireless network
segments that are under each IT administrator’s individual responsibility. This feature also allows
organizations to maintain super-user and root administrator control of the wireless LAN. Managed
service providers can use this feature to easily manage multiple customer WLANs from a single,
centralized, easy-to-use Cisco WCS platform.
Cisco WCS virtual domains provide organizations with the flexibility to:
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Define the areas of the wireless network that individual IT administrators (users)
can manage.
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Customize virtual domain names by geographical regions, customer names, building,
campus, or other customized parameters to meet each organization’s individual needs.
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Create up to 128 distinct hierarchical virtual domains.
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Maintain tight control of the wireless network infrastructure that is managed by each
IT administrator.
In addition to Cisco WCS virtual domains, Cisco WCS level partitioning is also supported by
Cisco
WCS Navigator
.
Features
Cisco WCS virtual domains features are supported by
Cisco WCS
Software Release 5.1 and later.
The following features are supported by Cisco WCS and managed through its easy-to-use
graphical user interface.
Group-By Hierarchical Domains
Cisco WCS virtual domains are grouped by hierarchical domains. IT administrators (users) have
access to only those individual domains to which they have been assigned. The top (root) user has
complete access to all domains (Figure 1).