WS5100 Wireless Switch

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Overview

Enhance support for enterprise mobility and multimedia applications in large healthcare, educational and retail organisations.
Enable campus-wide roaming across subnets without the need to re-authenticate — while extending mobile-client battery life and increasing voice capacity — with a wireless switch solution based on Motorola's wireless next-generation architecture (Wi-NG). Whether the demands on your wireless LAN are escalating due to an increase in your employee count or from the bandwidth demands of new applications (or both), look no further than the WS5100.

Features and Benefits

Adaptive AP: Extending the Enterprise
Enables centralized management of mesh access points at remote sites as well as site survivability of those remote locations.

Centralized multicore/multithreaded architecture
Provides security and high performance for bandwidth-heavy applications, while centralized management lowers the overall cost of network deployment and administration.

Comprehensive layered security
Exceptional level of data and network protection without sacrificing fast roaming, including: WPA2-CCMP (with 802.11i fast roaming options), integrated RADIUS Server, IPSec VPN Gateway, Secure Guest Access Provisioning and advanced wireless intrusion detection

L2 and L3 roaming
Seamless roaming of mobile clients even across complex distributed networks

Real Time Locationing System (RTLS)
Provides rich locationing services to enable real-time enterprise asset-tracking through support for 802.11, RFID and third- party locationing solutions — including industry leaders AeroScout, Ekahau, and Newbury Networks. Standards-based support for: EPC Global ALE interface for processing and filtering data from all active and passive tags; and EPC Global LLRP interface for passive RFID tag support

Clustering and load balancing
Ensures an “always-on” highly available network for superior performance, while supporting multiple levels of redundancy and failover capabilities.

True mobility
Virtual AP provides better control of broadcast traffic and enables multiple mobile and wireless applications with quality of service when network is congested; Pre-emptive Roaming ensures Motorola mobile devices roam before signal quality degrades; Power Save Protocol optimizes battery life; Self-healing provides continuous network coverage in the event of loss or disruption of RF coverage

Quality of Service (QoS)
Enhances voice and video capabilities; prioritizes network traffic to minimize latency and provide optimal responsiveness to all users; Wi-Fi Multimedia Extensions (WMM-Power Save with Admission Control) enhances multimedia application support and improves battery life and capacity; and MU- rate limiting and MU-load balancing provide granular control and management of bandwidth at the mobile device level

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Specifications

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Enterprise Wireless LAN Antenna Guide
(Updated 2010/10/01 | PDF 7 MB)
WS5100
WS5100 Wireless Switch Data Sheet(Updated 2010/10/01 | PDF 326 KB)

Power Requirements

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AC input voltage
100-240 VAC

Max power consumption
100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 3A, 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, 1.5A

Input frequency
47 Hz to 63 Hz

Max AC input current
6A@115 VAC, 3A@230 VAC

Packet Forwarding

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802.1D-1999 Ethernet bridging
Yes

802.1q-VLAN tagging and trunking
Yes

IP packet steering - redirection
Yes

802.11-802.3 bridging
Yes

Proxy ARP
Yes

Wireless Networking

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Layer 3 adoption
Yes

Layer 2 adoption
Yes

Layer 3 mobility (intersubnet roaming)
Yes

RF management
Yes; Dynamic Frequency Selection and Transmit Power Control (TPC); Country Code based RF configuration; Self Healing for Neighbour Recovery and Interference Avoidance; Automatic Channel Selection capability

Wireless LAN
Supports 32 WLANs; multi-ESS/BSSID traffic segmentation; VLAN to ESSID mapping; Auto Assignment of VLANs (on RADIUS authentication); Power Save Protocol Polling; pre-emptive roaming; congestion control with Bandwidth Management; VLAN Pooling

AP300 (802.11a/b/g) access ports
(802.11a/b/g ready) (L2 or L3 deployments)

802.11 a/b/g support
Supports 1 - 48 AP300 (802.11a/b/g ready)(L2 or L3 Deployments) per switch and 576 802.11a/b/g AP300s per cluster.

VLAN support
Wireless LAN to VLAN mapping; auto-assignment of VLANs based on user authentication

Adaptive AP support
Yes; Supports 1-48 adoption of the Independent Motorola AP51X1 Access Point in Adaptive Mode for remote site and branch office solutions

Roaming
Supports Hyper fast Secure roaming with Opportunistic Channel Scan; Power Save Protocol; pre-emptive Roaming and Credential Caching

Optimised Wireless QoS

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RF priority
802.11 traffic prioritisation and precedence

Wi-Fi multimedia extensions
WMM-power save with admission control

Classification and packet marking
802.1p VLAN Priority, DiffServ/TOS, Layer 1-4 packet classification

Management

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CLI (serial, telnet, SSH)
Yes

SNMP (v1, v2, v3)
Yes

TFTP client
Yes

DHCP client
Yes

Secure web-based GUI (HTTP, HTTPS, SSL)
Yes

Syslogs
Yes

SNTP (Secure Network Time Protocol)
Yes

Text-based switch configuration files
Yes

Multiple user roles
Yes

MIBS
Yes

DHCP server
Yes

Physical Characteristics

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Dimensions (HxWxD)
1.73 x 16.89 x 15.93 in. (43.9 x 429 x 404.6 mm) H x W x D

Physical interfaces
RS232 serial console port; 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports

Form factor
Standard 1RU

MTBF
>75, 000 Hours

Weight
13.75 lbs. (6.25 kg)

Part numbers

WS-5100-06-WWR: 6 Port WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-12-WWR: 12 Port WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-18-WWR: 18 Port WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-24-WWR: 24 Port WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-30-WWR: 30 Port WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-36-WWR: 36 Port WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-42-WWR: 42 Port WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-48-WWR: 48 Port WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-RS-WWR: Redundant WS5100 Wireless Switch, WS-5100-UC-WW: 6 Port Upgrade

User Environment

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Operating temperature
50° to 95°F (10° to 35°C)

Storage humidity
5% - 95% (w/o condensation)

Storage temperature
40° to 149°F (-40° to 65°C)

Operating humidity
5%-85% (w/o condensation)

Operating altitude
50 to 10, 000 ft. (16 to 3, 048 m)

Storage altitude
50 to 35, 000 ft. (16 to 10, 600 m)

Network Security

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RADIUS support (standard and Motorola vendor specific attributes)
Allowed ESSIDs (Motorola VSA), Location-based authentication (Motorola VSA), MAC-based authentication (standard), User-based QoS (Motorola VSA), User-based VLANs (standard)

Transport encryption
KeyGuard, WEP 40/128 (RC4), WPA2-CCMP (AES), WPA-TKIP

Authentication
Access Control Lists (ACLS); pre-shared keys (PSK); 802.1x/EAP-transport layer security (TLS), tunnelled transport layer security (TTLS), protected EAP (PEAP); Kerberos Integrated AAA/RADIUS server with native support for EAP-TTLS and EAP-PEAP (includes a built in user name/password database; supports LDAP), Supports DES, 3DES and AES encryption

Secure guest access (Hotspot provisioning)
Customizable login/welcome pages, Local web-based authentication, Support for external authentication/billing systems, URL redirection for user login

Access control lists
L2/3/4 ACLs, Network Address Translation (NAT) support

Stateful packet inspection firewall
Yes

Wireless IDS/IPS
Multi-mode rogue AP detection, client blacklisting, excessive authentication, /associations; excessive probes; excessive disassociation/deauthentications; excessive decryption errors; excessive authentication failures; excessive 802.11 replay; excessive crypto IV failures( TKIP/CCMP replay)

Anomaly analysis
Source Media Access Control( MAC) = Destination MAC; illegal frame sizes; Source MAC is multicast; TKIP countermeasures; all zero addresses

NAC support with third party systems from Microsoft and Sygate
Yes

IPSec VPN gateway
Supports DES, 3DES, AES-128 and AES-256 encryption, with site-to-site and client-to-site VPN capabilities

High Availability

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1:many redundancy
Yes

Active:Active failover
Yes

Active:Standby failover
Yes

Automatic load balancing
Yes

Clustering
Yes

Self healing (On RF coverage loss)
Yes

Pre-emptive roaming
Yes

Regulatory Specifications

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EMC
EN 301 489-1, EN 301 489-17, IEC 60601-1-2, EN 55022, FCC Part 15 Class B, ICES 003 Class B, EN 55024, EN 61000-3-2, EN 61000-3-3

Electrical safety
UL 60950-1, C22.2 No. 60950-1, EN 60950-1, IEC 60950-1

Environmental
RoHS Directive 2002/95/EEC

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Case Studies

Greater mobility gives SPC Ardmona more fruits for its labour(Updated 2012/01/24 | PDF 1 MB)
Hangzhou First People’s Hospital uses Motorola to improve its Outpatient Infusion Management System(Updated 2010/10/04 | PDF 724 KB)
Health Sciences Center Enhances Patient Safety and Staff Efficiency(Updated 2010/10/04 | PDF 60 KB)
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is among Canada's premier academic health sciences centers, with approximately 10,000 staff, physicians, volunteers and students working to improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients.
Mainfreight delivers faster with wireless networks and rugged mobility(Updated 2011/07/28 | PDF 138 KB)
Manipal University Creates an All-Wireless Campus With Motorola(Updated 2009/03/17 | PDF 176 KB)
Specialty Retailer Jo-Ann Stores Enhances Employee Productivity and Efficiency(Updated 2010/10/01 | PDF 50 KB)
With locations in 47 states, Jo-Ann Stores offer fashion and decorator fabrics, related notions, patterns and other materials for creative projects.
The Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital Saves More Lives with Motorola Mobility Solution(Updated 2010/10/01 | PDF 118 KB)
Improving information management was a key goal of the management at The Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital as it was needed to boost its competitive advantage. It selected the wireless medical system solution provided by Motorola.
VNK-Herbs Uses Mobility to Streamline Processes(Updated 2010/10/04 | PDF 98 KB)

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Beyond Corporate Walls: Symbol Mesh Networks (Updated 2009/05/11 | PDF 2 MB)
Mesh networks use RF to provide both network access and data backhaul, making it possible to extend the traditional network to less traditional locations without installing additional cable or fiber.
Comprehensive Management Demanding Wireless Network (Updated 2012/01/13 | PDF 105 KB)
Comprehensive Management for Demanding Wireless Networks (Updated 2010/10/01 | PDF 105 KB)
Enterprise Wireless LAN Security (Updated 2010/10/01 | PDF 96 KB)
Users within segregated large enterprise network environments share the commonality of the data within their corporate LAN, but not necessarily the data residing within carefully defined and proprietary WLAN segments. These WLANs are typically restricted to just those users requiring access to it.
Protecting Credit Card Data: How to Achieve PCI Compliance (Updated 2009/11/19 | PDF 44 KB)
A thorough discussion of the PCI standard and the protection of credit card data to ward off identity theft.

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