Cisco Cisco 3365 Mobility Services Engine Data Sheet
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Cisco MSE
Model
Model
SKU
Base Location
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\CMX
Scale
Presence Scale
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CMX Connect Scale
wIPS scale
Standard vMSE
Supports up to 2500
access points for Base
Location and CMX
access points for Base
Location and CMX
Supports up to 25,000
tracked devices
tracked devices
Standard vMSE
Supports up to 2500
access points
access points
Supports up to 125,000
tracked devices using
presence
tracked devices using
presence
Standard vMSE
Supports up to 12,500
active guests with 45
logins per second
active guests with 45
logins per second
Standard vMSE
Supports up to 6000
access points for wIPS
access points for wIPS
Low-End vMSE
Supports up to 200
access points for Base
Location
Supports up to 2000
tracked devices
Base Location
functionality only. CMX
license not supported in
the low-end vMSE
access points for Base
Location
Supports up to 2000
tracked devices
Base Location
functionality only. CMX
license not supported in
the low-end vMSE
Low-End vMSE
CMX license not
supported
supported
Low-End vMSE
CMX license not
supported
supported
Low-End vMSE
Supports up to 2000
access points for wIPS
access points for wIPS
The scaling limits may differ when using earlier software versions.
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Note: Enabling FastLocate technology increases location update rates by processing data packets for devices
that are connected to the network. Enabling FastLocate affects the MSE scale guidelines because data packets
are more frequent than probe packets and therefore use more MSE compute resources. Every connected device
takes up five times as many resources as a probing device. The supported number of end devices when using
FastLocate is as follows:
Number of probing devices + (5 x number of connected devices) <= tracked devices platform scale.
For example, if using the MSE 3355 and planning on having 2000 devices connected to the network (and thereby
using FastLocate), the platform scale would be:
Number of probing devices + 10,000 (5 x 2000) <= 25,000 (tracked devices platform scale).
Therefore, the MSE would support only 15,000 probing devices in addition to the 2000 connected devices.
For more details on FastLocate, please see the MSE data sheet.
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Note: Presence is a method of assessing the location of a device by determining the nearest access point to that
device. It is not as accurate as the standard method of triangulating the device location; however, it can be used in
venues that don’t have enough access points to enable device triangulation. Presence is available only in the 8.0
venues that don’t have enough access points to enable device triangulation. Presence is available only in the 8.0
software release. The scaling guidelines provided are for deployments that use only presence. Deployments that
use both presence and location triangulation will scale according to the Base Location guidelines.
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Note: The MSE 3355 has reached end of life, and sales will end in June 2015.