Cisco Cisco 5508 Wireless Controller Referencia técnica

 provides a summary of WIPS functionality that comes with WLC, WLC plus MSE, and WLC 

plus MSE plus CleanAir.

Rogue access point and ad hoc rogue 
detection, classification, location 
tracking, and containment

Yes

Yes

Yes

Switchport tracing and disabling

Yes

Yes

Yes

Management frame impersonation 
detection

Yes

Yes

Yes

Rogue containment when WAN is down

Yes

Yes

Yes

Internal and external rogue access point 
detection and containment times

Yes

Yes

Yes

Smartphone tethering detection and 
containment

Yes

Yes

Yes

Location tracking and containment for 
DoS attacker and non authorized device 
that is trying to associate internal access 
point

Yes

Yes

Yes

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) 
cracking detection

Yes

Yes

Yes

MAC spoofing rogue's detection and 
containment

Yes

Yes

Yes

Auto MAC learning and Internet 
connection sharing (ICS) detection

Yes

Yes

Yes

Internet connection sharing (ICS) 
detection

Yes

Yes

Yes

Enterprise-level alarm/event correlation

Yes

Yes

Yes

Attack signature threshold customization Yes

Yes

Yes

Off-channel rogue detection and location, 
integrated into infrastructure

Yes

Yee

Yes

DoS signature updates

No

Yes

Yes

Wireless intrusion signature updates

No

Yes

Yes

Attack forensics (all signatures)

No

Yes

Yes

Non-Wi-Fi transmitter detection and 
location

No

No

Yes

Non-Wi-Fi bridge detection and location

No

No

Yes

Non-Wi-Fi access point detection and 
location

No

No

Yes

Layer 1 DoS attack location and detection No

No

Yes