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Cisco Wireless Release 8.0

PB732295

Overview

The mobile workspace trend is helping employees and partners embrace mobile technologies, create new

possibilities for untethered work styles, enable better customer engagement, and connect with people, information,

and services. The IEEE 802.11ac standard will provide wireless networks better performance and coverage and

address the demand for client access, including 802.11ac-enabled clients. Customers across fields such as higher

education, K-12, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, or other verticals face the same challenges: more users coming

onto the network, more users bringing more devices (known as bring your own device, or BYOD), more devices

that have only wireless connectivity (no wired port), more security requirements, and operating system behavior

changes with updates on each of those devices.

At the same time, we are experiencing the Internet of Things (IoT), where millions of new devices are regularly
being connected to the Internet. As these “things” add capabilities such as context awareness, increased

processing power, and energy independence and as more people and new types of information are connected, we

will quickly enter the Internet of Everything (IoE). This proliferation of wirelessly connected Internet devices in the

IoE will create a new environment of information. Limited by the address space of IPv4, objects in the IoE are

expected to utilize IPv6 addresses, driving the rapid transition to end-to-end IPv6 communications.

The Cisco

Wireless Release 8.0 delivers a holistic end-to-end IPv6 solution to mitigate the challenges associated

with the diminishing number of unique IPv4 addresses available and allows consistent IPv6 addresses for

communications throughout the network. This software release also enhances the Cisco High-Density Experience

(HDX), which alleviates the complexity of more clients, bandwidth-hungry applications, and high-density network

strain to provide an unparalleled user experience.

Primary Features in Release 8.0

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Cisco HD Experience with Optimized Roaming

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Optimized Roaming monitors the connection quality of all devices and proactively prompts poorly

performing client devices to seek a better connection much sooner.

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IPv6 infrastructure support allows IT administrators the ability to configure the entire WLAN infrastructure

with IPv6 addresses and enable communication between the wireless controller and access point, Cisco

Prime

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Infrastructure, RADIUS Server, and Mobility Services Engine using IPv6 throughout the network.

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Granular per user and per device policies for Application Visibility and Control (AVC) to provide the

right access to users and maintain operational costs by properly managing applications and their bandwidth

use.