With the BYOD trend accelerating, WiFi connectivity is now widely provided everywhere in offices, hotels and even schools. This significantly and quickly increases demand for WiFi access points, which in turn leads to more provisioning and management issues for network administrators. In fact, a well-designed WLAN controller is usually a solution to relieve administrators from these problems.
Now, Zyxel makes its advanced AP Controller (APC) technology available not only to stand-alone NXC WLAN controllers, but also to its various Gateway products. This enables businesses to easily scale up their WiFi networks with less investment and management efforts.
*with Firmware ZLD V4.10 or above
APC Version
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APC3.66
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RRM (Radio Resource Management) | |
Client RSSI threshold | v |
Dynamic channel selection | DCS3.0 |
Band steering (Band select) | v (2.0) |
Auto power (Auto healing) | v |
Wireless client capability information | v |
Channel utilization | v |
Security Control | |
Zero Trust – Two-Factor Authentication | v |
Collaborative Detection & Response (CDR) support | v |
MAC filtering | v |
Blocking Intra-BSS traffic | v |
Role-based access control | v |
Wireless L2 Isolation | v |
Rogue AP detection in monitor mode | v |
Rogue AP detection in AP mode | v |
WPA3 support on 11ax AP | v |
AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting) | |
MAC authentication with local database | v |
MAC authentication with external radius | v |
Captive portal (internal & external) | v |
Captive portal customizable web login page |
v |
Dynamic guest account | v |
RADIUS authentication | v |
Microsoft AD authentication | v |
LDAP authentication | v |
Embedded RADIUS server | v |
RADIUS accounting | v |
RADIUS session resumption | v |
Log-out page | v |
802.1X accounting with managed AP | v |
Wireless QoS | |
AP load balancing | v (2.0) |
Smart classroom load balancing | v |
802.11r/k/v support for fast roaming enhancement | v |
WLAN Station bandwidth limiting | v |
Deployment | |
Wireless Health support | v |
802.1X Single Sign-on enhancement when enabling 2FA | v |
Enhance new AP management mechanism | v |
Data tunneling | v |
ZyMesh | v |
ZWO (Zyxel Wireless Optimizer) AP planning |
v |
ZWO (Zyxel Wireless Optimizer) coverage detection |
v |
AP group | v |
CAPWAP discovery method | v |
NebulaFlex Pro support on Unified Pro AP | v |
Proxy ARP per SSID on AP | v |
Fallback SSID when controller offline | v |
DL-OFDMA support on 11ax AP | v |
Diagnostic Tool | |
Wireless frame capture | v |
AP broadcast counter | v |
Roaming log includes "SSID Name" | v |
High Availability | |
Primary/Secondary controller support | v |
License SKU | |
MAPS | v |
ZyMesh license | v* |
*: NXC series support one Root AP for ZyMesh by default. To support more Root APs, NXC series needs ZyMesh license.