Specifications
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Item |
Specification |
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Wireless standards |
IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11d, WMM/802.11e, 802.11h, 802.11n, 802.11k, 802.11r, 802.11u, 802.11w, 802.11ac Wave 1 and Wave 2, 802.11ax |
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Wired, switching, and routing standards |
IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T, IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-SX, 1000-BASE-LH, IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tagging, IEEE 802.1AX Link Aggregation |
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Data standards |
● RFC 768 User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
● RFC 791 IP
● RFC 2460 IPv6
● RFC 792 Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
● RFC 793 TCP
● RFC 826 Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
● RFC 1122 Requirements for Internet Hosts
● RFC 1519 Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)
● RFC 1542 Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP)
● RFC 2131 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
● RFC 5415 Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol
● RFC 5416 CAPWAP Binding for 802.11
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Security standards |
● Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
● IEEE 802.11i (WPA2, RSN)
● Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3)
● RFC 1321 MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm
● RFC 1851 Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP) Triple DES (3DES) Transform
● RFC 2104 HMAC: Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication
● RFC 2246 TLS Protocol Version 1.0
● RFC 3280 Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
● RFC 4347 Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS)
● RFC 5246 TLS Protocol Version 1.2
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Encryption standards |
● Static Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) RC4 40, 104 and 128 bits
● Advanced Encryption Standard (AES): Cipher Block Chaining (CBC), Counter with CBC-MAC (CCM), Counter with CBC Message Authentication Code Protocol (CCMP)
● Data Encryption Standard (DES): DES-CBC, 3DES
● Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS): RC4 128-bit and RSA 1024- and 2048-bit
● DTLS: AES-CBC
● IPsec: DES-CBC, 3DES, AES-CBC
● 802.1AE MACsec encryption
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Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) standards |
● IEEE 802.1X
● RFC 2548 Microsoft Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes
● RFC 2716 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)-TLS
● RFC 2865 RADIUS Authentication
● RFC 2866 RADIUS Accounting
● RFC 2867 RADIUS Tunnel Accounting
● RFC 2869 RADIUS Extensions
● RFC 3576 Dynamic Authorization Extensions to RADIUS
● RFC 5176 Dynamic Authorization Extensions to RADIUS
● RFC 3579 RADIUS Support for EAP
● RFC 3580 IEEE 802.1X RADIUS Guidelines
● RFC 3748 Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
● Web-based authentication
● TACACS support for management users
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Management standards |
● Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) v1, v2c, v3
● RFC 854 Telnet
● RFC 1155 Management Information for TCP/IP-based Internets
● RFC 1156 MIB
● RFC 1157 SNMP
● RFC 1213 SNMP MIB II
● RFC 1350 Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
● RFC 1643 Ethernet MIB
● RFC 2030 Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
● RFC 2616 HTTP
● RFC 2665 Ethernet-Like Interface Types MIB
● RFC 2674 Definitions of Managed Objects for Bridges with Traffic Classes, Multicast Filtering, and Virtual Extensions
● RFC 2819 Remote Monitoring (RMON) MIB
● RFC 2863 Interfaces Group MIB
● RFC 3164 Syslog
● RFC 3414 User-Based Security Model (USM) for SNMPv3
● RFC 3418 MIB for SNMP
● RFC 3636 Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3 MAUs
● RFC 4741 Base NETCONF protocol
● RFC 4742 NETCONF over SSH
● RFC 6241 NETCONF
● RFC 6242 NETCONF over SSH
● RFC 5277 NETCONF event notifications
● RFC 5717 Partial Lock Remote Procedure Call
● RFC 6243 With-Defaults capability for NETCONF
● RFC 6020 YANG
● Cisco private MIBs
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Management interfaces |
● Web-based: HTTP/HTTPS
● Command-line interface: Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, serial port
● SNMP
● NETCONF
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The Cisco Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller for Cloud runs on Cisco IOS XE Software version 16.10.1 or later. This software release includes all the features listed earlier in the Platform Benefits section.
Table 4. Minimum software requirements
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Model |
Description |
Minimum software requirement |
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C9800-CL-K9 |
Cisco Catalyst 9800-CL Wireless Controller for Cloud |
Cisco IOS XE Software Release 16.10.1 High-throughput profiles supported from Release 17.3.1 onward |




























