Wireless Solutions

Allied Telesis Unified Wireless Controller

What UWC?

What UWC?

Acronym standing for Allied Telesis Unified Wireless Controller

UWC allows you to centralized management for multiple APs.

Mgt.

Mgt.

Stand-alone mode

Centralized management

Managed mode

AT-TQ2450 support both stand-alone mode and managed mode for centralized
management by UWC.

Advantage of Allied Telesis Unified Wireless Controller

Reduce the costs to installation and operation

Central management of a number of APs at the same time

Automatically put into configuration to each APs

Automatically optimize and adjust channels and out-put power of radio

Realize secure wireless network

Advanced authentication

MAC address authentication (Local DB or external RADIUS)

WEB authentication (call as Captive Portal, Local DB or external RADIUS)

Ease and safety wireless network

Monitor for Whole of WLAN

Integrate monitoring tool by MAPs format

Status (AP, Radio)
Rogue AP / STA detection

On the 2.4GHz band, only 3 Non Overlapping channels.

Frequency Constrains

Radio Basics Coverage <> Range

Distance

Client Connects @ 1 Mbps

Client Connects @ 6 Mbps

Client Connects @ 54 Mbps

Radio Coverage:
This is the area a client
can hear an Access Point
and reply successfully
Typically 10 Metres radius
from the AP at 54 Mbps
Range:
The RF energy does not
stop simply because the
client and AP can no
longer interpret the data,
typical Range may be
2,000 meters

Radio Transmission Still Continues

Radio Basics Why Coverage <> Range

Multipath:
When a client hears the same
data from a single AP several
times, this can corrupt the
signal.
Reflection:
Flat metallic surfaces tend to
reflect RF energy
Refraction:
Metal grids can distort the RF
energy making it unusable
Absorption:
Fluids usually absorb RF
energy as in a microwave.

Wi-Fi So Far
Traffic contention
Unreliable connection

Wi-Fi So Far

Traffic contention
Unreliable connection
Slow or wrong mobility
AP-to-AP interference
Coverage gaps hard to fix
APs individually configured
One AP serves all.
QoS hard to be assured

Unified Wireless Controller

Application to manage AT-TQ2450 or AT-TQ3600 (Up to 210 APs)
Run over Hardware Appliance or Virtualized platform (CentOS5.6 + UWC)
Plug and Play AP management with automatic channel assignment and radio
range setting
AT-UWC-60-APL
Guest access via Captive Portal
Hardware appliance
upgradable up to 60 APs
Control of end-to-end Quality of Service
Seamless mobility (Layer 3 fast roaming)
AT-UWC-Install
Cell based (Third generation)
Software appliance
Cluster of UWC to further grow
upgradable up to 210 APs
Service resilience: if the controller is out of service, then APs will switch to
stand-alone mode

Indoor
Small
Business

Requirements

Extend Wireless indoor

WEB based configuration
CLI configuration
Concurrent dual band technology
Access Point role
Multiple SSIDs
LAN segmentation/separation VLAN
WPA2-Enterprise/Person security
Cluster AP
PoE powered
Stand-alone, and Controlled mode

Solution

. .

AT-TQ2450

Indoor
Medium
Business

IEEE 802.11a/b/n
2x2 MIMO (300Mbps throughput)
AP Cluster (up to 16)
Unified Wireless Controller
POE powered

GA

AT-TQ3600

IEEE 802.11a/b/n
3x3 MIMO (450Mbps throughput)
AP Cluster (up to 16)
Unified Wireless Controller
POE powered

EOY

Unified Wireless Controller Network Visualization

Network Visualization (NV) is
allows you to visualize various
information of your WLAN
This indicate various status and
information of your WLAN on the
floor map image file
You can easily comprehend What
channel is use an AP? or How many
STAs are associated?, and so on.
Up to 12 maps indicate with tab
switching.
Support image file format is .jpg
and .gif

Network Visualization (Cont.)

Use different colors for
each status of your
manage APs.

Indicate some devices, such

as managed APs, not
managed APs, and
associated STAs.
Indicate on the
actual floor map
Use different colors for use
channels of your managed APs,
you can anticipate RF
interference.

Compute RF reachable
range from configuration
value by radio out-put
power and floor size.

Indicate associated STAs.

You can confirm about
situation of STAs, such as
total number, number of
associated STAs per AP,
usage each APs, and so on.

Optimize 2.4GHz / 5GHz channels

You can choose two ways for verify RF channel optimize
Run manually
Automatically periodic intervals.
Detect RF interference for
monitoring to statistics Wi-Fi
communication. UWC compute
most suitable channel and
direction each AP.

Bad effect to Wi-Fi communication

from RF interference by use same
channel, at same time.

For 2.4GHz band,

typically use 1, 6, and 11 channels
avoidance RF interference.

Note;
This slide just description along of explain behavior,
in some case not same as actual behavior.

Optimize RF out-put power

Detect an AP failure

Direction increase RF out-put

power by surround APs from failure AP.
Keep service area if at all possible.

Normal operation.

Note;
This slide just description along of explain behavior,
in some case not same as actual behavior.

Outline for Captive Portal (Web authentication)

Captive Portal is same as Web authentication.
Use local database (internal UWC) or external RADIUS server for authentication.
Laptop
Authentication by Web interface for UWC itself.

Auth result
AP3 - CH Z

AP2 - CH Y
GUEST NETWORK
VLAN10

AP1 - CH X
Smart device
Unauthorized access

Outline for Captive Portal (Web authentication)

Captive Portal is same as Web authentication.
Use local database (internal UWC) or external RADIUS server for
authentication.
Laptop
Authentication by Web interface for UWC itself.
Auth result
AP3 - CH Z

AP2 - CH Y
GUEST NETWORK
VLAN10

AP1 - CH X

Smart device
Unauthorized access

Universal Wireless Controller

Base License required

Free Software
AT-UWC-Install

UWC installer software

AT-UWC-TrialST

Free Trial License for 10 AP for 30 Days

AT-UWC-BaseST

Base License for 10AP

Hardware Appliance
AT-UWC-60-APL

Hrdware Applciance with UWC installed

including a licence for 10 Acceess Point
(max 60 AP)

Addittional AP
10
20
50
100
200

Licence
AT-UWC-10-Lic
AT-UWC-20-Lic
AT-UWC-50-Lic
AT-UWC-100-Lic
AT-UWC-200-Lic

Thank you

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