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Cisco Wireless Release 8.2 

PB736467 

Overview 

The 802.11ac standard is well on its path to becoming the prevalent WLAN standard, and the emergence of 

802.11ac Wave 2 clients and WLAN infrastructure is expected to provide another boost to that trend. According to 

IDC,

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 after two full years of product availability, the 802.11ac standard already accounts for nearly 50 percent of 

dependent access point unit shipments and 62.8 percent of dependent access point revenues, representing a 

noticeably faster adoption rate than we saw with the 802.11a/b/g to 802.11n transition several years ago. 

Increased demand on enterprise WLANs will continue to be a driving factor in this transition, especially as new 

enterprise mobility use cases are adopted and Internet of Things (IoT) applications move into the mainstream. With 

the expanded need for WLAN infrastructure comes the need for operational simplification and reduction in 

operating costs. 

Cisco anticipated these emerging trends and updated the wireless controller and access point portfolio with the 

introduction of the Cisco

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 5520 and 8540 Wireless Controllers and the Cisco Aironet

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 1850 and 1830 Series 

802.11ac Wave 2 capable access points in Cisco Wireless Release 8.1. Cisco Wireless Release 8.2 continues to 

build upon innovations such as Cisco High Density Experience (HDX), Airtime Fairness, and ease of management 

delivered in preceding releases, and provides expanded deployment and management simplification of WLAN 

networks. It greatly simplifies licensing management, provisioning, and maintenance of WLAN networks. It also 

focuses on enhancing security and services for a variety of applications to provide an enhanced customer 

experience on Wi-Fi networks. 

Primary Features in Release 8.2 

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Cisco 

Controller (vWLC): Cisco started the initiative of simplifying customer license management by building a 

Smart Software Manager portal. This portal helps customers understand what licenses they have 

purchased and what licenses they are using. Various other Cisco products are already smart enabled and, 

with the introduction of this release, smart licensing will now be available on the 5520, 8540, and vWLC. 

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Increased vWLC scale: The number of access points that vWLC can support is now 15 times the number it 

supported prior to this release. vWLC can now support up to 3000 access points and 32,000 clients. This 

allows customers to deploy high-scale vWLC in the private cloud for simplified operations and flexible 

deployments. 

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AP Plug-n-Play: To increase service automation, this release introduces AP Plug-n-Play. AP Plug-n-Play is 

a highly secure, zero-touch, day-zero deployment feature that simplifies access point deployment using a 

central server (Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise Module [

]). It helps an 

organization save on the operational costs of configuring access points before they are shipped to the 

actual location and the travel costs of an IT installer. 

                                                 

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