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Hyperion Series Wireless LAN Controller User Manual
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Chapter 1. I
NTRODUCTION
Hyperion is a Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) product series which includes three models of WS5G2, WS7G2 and
WS10G2, particularly suitable for the SMB and IoT applications. This series of products is designed based on Intel Atom
platform, providing 1G and 10G Ethernet ports in the form of RJ45 and SFP+ to meet with the requirements in every
kind of applications. The Hyperion series WLC mainly faces the small scale Wi-Fi network where the deployed access
points are not exceeding 1000. In this scenario, the wireless clients could be regular user endpoints and also the IoT
sensors, such as mobile phone, notebook computer, IP-CAM, and industrial sensors and controllers. In the era of
industry 4.0, the artificial intelligence and internet of everything depending on wireless network communication will
grow up explosively, so that the Wi-Fi coverage infrastructure and even the long range Wi-Fi bridge could be possibly
expanding in a large scale. This means that the Hyperion series WLC will have much more application opportunities in
the new era.
WLC is such a product which helps customer to centralized manage and provision wireless access points in a way of
migrating the management function originally resided in each access point to WLC while the AP only remains its
fundamental wireless access and security capabilities. Hence, the WLC focuses on AP’s configuration, user
authentication, traffic forwarding, radio resource management, access control, QoS and load balancing; while the thin
AP focuses on the underlying functions defined by IEEE802.11 specifications. For a complicated Wi-Fi system, this
architecture is an ideal model that is controllable and manageable. In the Wi-Fi system with WLC, thin AP has zero
configurations initially; it is configured by downloading profiles from WLC. Thin AP and WLC are connected through
CAPWAP tunnel which is established by thin AP during its DHCP discovery process with option43 response.
In SMB and IoT applications, the capacity of the access point is usually less than 1000, and the total traffic throughput is
less than 20Gbps. Therefore, a small-sized WLC is required as the centralized controller. Hyperion series WLC based on
Intel Atom platform (such as WS5G2, WS7G2 and WS10G2) was born for these deployments.
1.1. M
ANUAL
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TATEMENT
1.1.1. S
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Syntax conventions in the command line:
Format Meaning
Bold Command names are represented by bold characters.
Italics Command arguments (the values following the command name) are represented
by
italic characters.
[ ] Represents the optional parts in the command line.
// Represents comments without action.
| Represent the OR logic for multiple parameter options.