Description
The All-in-One, Intelligent WLAN Controller
Delivering a good wireless LAN service that stands up to the demands of connecting users to the rapid evolution application is not easy. The latest BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), mobility and smart handheld technology all present scalability, manageability and functionality challenges to business Wi-Fi installations. To enable businesses to addressing these challenges ZyXEL has developed the NXC2500, an all-in-one, intelligent Wireless LAN Controller. The ZyXEL NXC2500 is designed to provide resellers and businesses with a solution that works as an AP planning, deployment, monitoring and maintenance solution while offering management, authentication and guest access within an all-in-one device.
The ZyXEL NXC2500 Wireless LAN Controller supports the management of the ZyXEL Unified,Unified Pro and NWA5000 Managed Series of Access Points to provide complete wireless LAN functions for the business. As standard the ZyXEL NXC2500 supports the initial management of 8 APs and provides scalability with a maximum supported total up to 64(1) APs, the "pay-as-you-grow" principle provides reassurance and future proofing for small and medium-sized businesses, hotels and educational institutes to implement secured, centralized wireless LAN networks.
Adaptive and resilient Wi-Fi deployments with ZyMESH technology
Surpassing the mesh networking technology, ZyMESH creates wireless mesh links with easy configuration, better management and enhanced reliability. ZyMESH eases extending Wi-Fi coverage to places where cabling is difficult. In addition, each repeater APs can have multiple route selections to provide high resilience achieving non-stop Wi-Fi service. In the past, administrators had to assign channel and MAC addresses in each AP while setting up a WDS link to extend Wi-Fi service; now they can make initial provision and centralized management with ZyMESH and ZyXEL NXC2500 controller to manage and deploy networks easily.
Enhanced RF management and WLAN optimization
All wireless networks face a major challenge: ensuring Wi-Fi clients get service levels they’d need. The difficulty to resolve is that different kinds of Wi-Fi clients exist on the network, and these users tend to make their own connectivity and roaming decision.
The ZyXEL NXC2500 features with advanced WLAN optimization technologies that help administrators monitoring and maintaining health of the wireless network easily. Client steering utilizes functions of band steering and client signal threshold to match every Wi-Fi client to the best radio of the best AP. Band steering sets 5 GHz as the first priority to optimize network connectivity for dual-band clients. Client signal threshold ensures all clients connect to the APs with stronger signal. Auto healing is another WLAN optimization function that deployed APs detect status of nearby APs and adjust power automatically while failure occurred in neighboring AP. Auto healing provides reliable and always-on wireless coverage. The ZyXEL NXC2500 also features dynamic channel selection to optimize Wi-Fi quality and performance while minimizing administration efforts by auto, instant channel selection.
Authentication with simplified management
The ZyXEL NXC2500 uses comprehensive authentication methods to manage Wi-Fi accessibility for devices with AD, LDAP or RADIUS authentication servers. The NXC2500 also provides a built-in RADIUS server, a captive portal server and a DHCP server to facilitate small and medium businesses deploying secured employee and guest access services without any additional server. The user-friendly guest account generator can dynamically create user accounts for guests at reception or equally easy by office administrators. The NXC2500 also supports applying external customized portal pages which largely benefit the access authentication in hospitality venues like hotels. Also, with IETF standard-based CAPWAP, secured communication can be established between the NXC controller and access points without changing the existing LAN infrastructure. The NXC2500 can offer a secured Wi-Fi network with easy installation for your business.
(1) Management of 64 APs is supported with firmware version V4.10 or above
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Simplifying BYOD
The ZyXEL NXC2500 helps businesses to meet BYOD challenges. As more and more people are bringing their own devices to work, the workplace has gradually evolved from "one device for one person" to "multiple devices for many people". The NXC2500 has been designed to work with ZyXEL Unified, Unified Pro and Managed Series of Access Points with no pre-configuration required. The NXC2500 provides the business with multiple auto-discovery methods, Broadcast, DHCP option and DNS. With IETF standard based CAPWAP (Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points), secured communication can be established between the NXC controller and access points without changing the existing LAN infrastructure, this allows APs be deployed and provisioned quickly and securely within the network. The NXC2500 offers a non-stop wireless service, easy installation and secured Wi-Fi network for your business. -
Visualized AP planning and WLAN health management
Efficiently estimating the number of APs needed and fast deployment of stable, high quality Wi-Fi coverage are two unavoidable challenges for every WLAN installation scenario. Monitoring and maintaining the health of the wireless network after deployment is equally important and usually can consume a lot of effort. In order to simplify the planning, deploying and maintaining, the ZyXEL Wireless Optimizer works in unison with the NXC2500. The Wireless Optimizer provides a pre-installation AP planning function and after installation delivers innovation that allows your WLAN Access points to act as Wi-Fi sensors to perform coverage detection that simplifies and speeds up deployment. The AP Wi-Fi sensor also provides a wireless quality index, and can be visualized into the Wi-Fi quality MAP within the wireless optimizer application, where the maintenance and optimization of the Wi-Fi deployment is no longer an "invisible" and incredibly complicated challenge. -
Optimal WLAN quality
The ZyXEL NXC2500 comes with a range of advanced RF management functions that minimizes administrator efforts for optimized Wi-Fi quality and performance. The auto channel selection function can provide continuous, automated RF optimization to relieve administrators from the need to worry about channel settings and to determine the right channels. AP load-balancing parameters can also be set to distribute traffic, while the number of served clients among multiple APs can also be detected to improve overall efficiency. -
Authentication with simplified management
The ZyXEL NXC2500 uses comprehensive authentication methods to manage Wi-Fi accessibility for laptops, tablets or other mobile devices with AD, LDAP or RADIUS authentication servers. The NXC2500 also provides a built-in RADIUS server, captive portal server and DHCP server. It has the capability for fully customizable portal pages allowing you to deploy secured employee and guest access without the need for any additional servers and the user friendly guest account generator can dynamically create user accounts for guests at reception or as easily by the business office administrators. The flexible, powerful, yet friendly design all helps to demystify the professional Wi-Fi deployment and make the implementation of business class Wi-Fi easy.
Specifications
Summary
- Product Description
- Zyxel NXC2500 - network management device
- Device Type
- Network management device
- Form Factor
- External
- Localisation
- Europe
- Data Link Protocol
- Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
- Performance
- Firewall throughput: 1 Gbps
- Capacity
- Maximum number of access points: 8
- Power
- AC 120/230 V / DC 12 V
- Dimensions (WxDxH)
- 24.2 cm x 17.539 cm x 3.55 cm
- Weight
- 1.254 kg
Detailed Specification
General
- Device Type
- Network management device
- Width
- 24.2 cm
- Depth
- 17.539 cm
- Height
- 3.55 cm
- Weight
- 1.254 kg
- Localisation
- Europe
Networking
- Form Factor
- External
- Connectivity Technology
- Wired
- Data Link Protocol
- Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet
- Routing Protocol
- Static IP routing, policy-based routing (PBR)
- Remote Management Protocol
- SNMP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, CLI
- Performance
- Firewall throughput: 1 Gbps
- Capacity
- Maximum number of access points: 8
- Features
- Firewall protection, NAT support, load balancing, LDAP support, VLAN support, DiffServ support, MAC address filtering, Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS), Wi-Fi Multimedia (WMM) support, Auto Channel Select (ACS), RADIUS support, DHCP server, fanless, DNS server, DHCP relay, CAPWAP support, rogue access point detection, DHCP client, Captive Portal
- Encryption Algorithm
- SSL, WPA, WPA2, WPA2-PSK, WPA-Enterprise, WPA2-Enterprise, WEP
- Authentication Method
- Secure Shell (SSH), RADIUS, LDAP, Active Directory
- Compliant Standards
- IEEE 802.1x
Expansion / Connectivity
- Interfaces
- 6 x 1000Base-T - RJ-45 , 2 x USB - Type A
Miscellaneous
- MTBF
- 815,464 hours
- Compliant Standards
- C-Tick, EN55022, EN55024, CISPR 22, FCC Part 15 B, EN 60950-1, BSMI CNS 13438, Energy-Related Products (ErP) Lot 6, LVD
Power
- Power Device
- Internal power supply
- Voltage Required
- AC 120/230 V / DC 12 V
Environmental Parameters
- Min Operating Temperature
- 0 °C
- Max Operating Temperature
- 40 °C
- Humidity Range Operating
- 5 - 95% (non-condensing)