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Note:   AVC for converged access is in the roadmap and is being delivered in multiple phases. 

Cisco’s One approach - One Policy, One Network, and One Management - defines converged access. Increasing 

wireless traffic in the enterprise calls for architecture in which wireless traffic and wired applications/traffic can be 

deployed and managed in a consistent way. Having one model for wireless and one for wired is a maintenance 

challenge, requires deploying policies in different ways at different PINs, and would be need to managed and 

monitored separately. This is what the converged access model offers: 

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Have one policy fo

r wired and wireless clients, that is, policies that can seamlessly “move” when the user 

migrates from wired to wireless. 

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One point of managing the policies - configuration and monitoring. The access device (3850) is capable of 

terminating wireless, and would be a single point of policy enforcement now. Policies for wireless can be 

deployed along with wired, at the access unlike the Cisco Unified Wireless Network model where wireless 

policies were administered on the WLC. 

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One management station - Cisco Prime Infrastructure for managing the wired and wireless endpoints and 

applications in a unified way. 

Following is a representation of the possible deployment models for converged access: 

 

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3850 terminates wireless - Wired and wireless traffic converges here. 

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Numerous apps - voice, video, and data - are accessed over wireless - IT needs to provide a good user 

experience for wired and wireless. 

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Need common points of policy enforcement - What to prioritize. 

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Easy ways to know application performance and visibility for wired and wireless. 

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Need for user and application management with a common platform.